Bangladesh

As part of the interim government’s activities, Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus will sit with representatives from the major political parties on Saturday. The chief advisor’s schedule shows a five-hour block of time from 3pm to 8pm on Saturday for the meetings, reports bdnews24.com. An official from the chief advisor’s office says he wants to speak with representatives of all political ...

The contractual appointments of two Bangladesh press ministers at the the United Kingdom and the United States have been terminated. A notification issued by the Ministry of Public Administration on Thursday confirmed the cancellation of contracts for Md Ashequn Nabi Chowdhury, press minister at the Bangladesh High Commission in London, UK, and AZM Sajjad Hossain, press minister at the Bangladesh ...

Pakistan Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif had a telephone conversation with Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus on Friday and emphasised the need to revitalise relations between the two nations. “There remains immense potential in expanding bilateral trade and economic cooperation,” Pakistan Prime Minister told Prof Yunus, congratulating him on his assumption of the leadership of the Interim Government of Bangladesh, ...

Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) has asked all banks to freeze accounts of former chief justice Obaidul Hassan and attorney general AM Amin Uddin. The anti-money laundering agency also ordered banks to block all accounts belonging to Obaidul Hassan’s wife Nafisa Banu, and Amin Uddin’s wife Afsari Khanam. BFIU, an investigation wing of the central bank, sent letters to banks ...

Russian Ambassador to Bangladesh Alexander Vikentyevich Mantytskiy on Thursday met BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and discussed the country’s latest situation, next general election, trade, investment and the potential areas for cooperation between the two friendly nations. The hour-long meeting, held at the BNP Chairperson’s Gulshan office, was also attended by BNP Standing Committee and International Affairs Committee ...

BNP standing committee member Mirza Abbas has been acquitted in a case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on charges of irregularities in allocating a plot in the capital’s Tejgaon industrial area. Dhaka Special Judge Court-4 Judge Rabiul Alam passed the order on Thursday. Mirza Abbas’s lawyer Mohi Uddin Chowdhury confirmed this. Meanwhile, the ACC’s public prosecutor Mir Ahmed Ali ...

Hearing on leave to appeal against the High Court order that scrapped the petition seeking cancellation of money laundering case proceedings against Dr Muhammad Yunus and six Grameen Telecom officers will be held on September 2. A five-member Appellate Division benched, led by Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed, set the date on Thursday. Senior lawyer Abdullah Al Mamun and Khaza ...

A court in Dhaka on Thursday placed former prime minister’s adviser Salman F Rahman and former law minister Anisul Huq on a five-day fresh remand in a case filed for killing Sumon Shikder in the capital’s Uttar Badda during the Quota Reform Movement. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Nurul Huda Chowdhury granted the remand following a 10-day remand prayer of the investigation ...

The Meghalaya Police have recovered the decomposed body of Awami League leader Ishaque Ali Khan Panna from a betelnut plantation in Jaintia Hills district bordering Bangladesh, according to PTI reported quoting a police official. The body was found on August 26 evening, around 1.5 km from the IndiA-Bangladesh border. Panna was identified through his passport, the police official told PTI. ...

Former commerce minister Tipu Munshi was arrested from the capital’s Gulshan area early Thursday over the killing of a worker in Rangpur during the Quota Reform Movement. Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested him from a house in Gulshan-1 and later, shown him arrested in the murder case. ANM Emran Khan, assistant director of the Legal and Media wing of RAB ...