Bangladesh

Former chairman of the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC), Shibli Rubaiyat-ul-Islam, has been arrested by Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police. According to DB Chief Rezaul Karim Mallik, the arrest took place on Tuesday night at around 10 PM in Dhaka’s Dhanmondi area. He confirmed that Shibli Rubaiyat was apprehended in connection with a case filed by the ...

The United States (US) embassy in Dhaka will launch a new visa service system starting February 8, temporarily suspending access to its current online platform. As part of the transition, the visa service website www.ustraveldocs.com will be unavailable from February 5 to February 7, the embassy announced in a Facebook post on Tuesday, reports BSS. “We will resume our website ...

Sarah Cooke, British High Commissioner to Bangladesh, has said the United Kingdom (UK) will remain a steadfast partner of Bangladesh, noting that the two countries continue to expand their bilateral trade through the UK’s Developing Countries Trading Scheme (DCTS). Representing eight businesses by a group of diverse and inspirational Bangladeshi women entrepreneurs is set to lead a trade mission to ...

The Election Commission (EC) has collected data on 50 lakh new voters as part of its ongoing voter list update process, according to EC Secretary Akhter Ahmed. Speaking to journalists at the Election Commission headquarters on Tuesday (February 4), he stated that a total of 4,970,388 new voters have been added, against a target of 6,189,000. He further explained that ...

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has called for the establishment of a ‘command centre’ to intensively monitor and coordinate the country’s law and order situation. The directive came during a high-level meeting with the heads of law enforcement agencies at the state guesthouse Jamuna in Dhaka. Addressing the meeting, Prof Yunus emphasized the need for a centralized command structure to ...

A Dhaka court has imposed a travel ban on Farzana Rahman Ipshita, daughter of former member of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) Matiur Rahman, and ordered the seizure of her income tax records in connection with the ongoing graft cases. On Monday, Senior Special Judge Zakir Hossain Galib of the Dhaka Metropolitan Court issued the order following a petition ...

Home Affairs Advisor Lieutenant General Md. Jahangir Alam Chowdhury (Retd.) has urged Kuwait to recruit more workers from Bangladesh to strengthen bilateral labor cooperation. He made this call during a meeting with Kuwaiti Ambassador to Bangladesh H. E. Ali Th A Q Hamadah at the Bangladesh Secretariat on Monday afternoon. Highlighting the strong historical ties between the two nations, the ...

A Dhaka court on Monday, granted two-day remand to seven people, including former Justice Abul Hossain Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik, former Prime Minister’s Advisor Salman F Rahman, former Law Minister Anisul Haque, in murder case of auto-rickshaw driver Hafizul Sikder in Badda during the anti-discrimination movement on Monday (February 3). The other accused on remand are former Social Welfare Minister Dr. ...

Bangladesh Development Party (BDP) has been officially registered as a political party. The party, led by Chairman Anwarul Islam Chan, received its registration certificate from EC Secretary Akhter Ahmed at the EC headquarters on Monday morning. BDP’s registration number is 54, and its election symbol is ‘Cauliflower.’ BDP Chairman Anwarul Islam Chan said to media that his party is committed ...

A court in Dhaka on Monday placed six persons, including Salman F Rahman, former private industry affairs adviser to ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, former Law Minister Anisul Haq and Dipu Moni, on a two-day remand each in a murder case filed with Badda Police Station. The other remanded accused are former Justice Abul Hossain Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik, former State ...