Bangladesh

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Wednesday issued a status quo on High Court verdict that declared the scrapping of quotas in government jobs as illegal. Chief Justice Obaidul Hassan said, “We will hear the arguments from all the aggrieved students through their lawyers. And the court will consider their statements during the disposal of main petition.” After ...

Bangladesh and China on Wednesday signed 21 instruments including three renewed Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) and made announcement of 7 more projects to elevate “comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership” from “strategic partnership” between the two countries. The instruments were inked in the presence of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Chinese counterpart Li Qiang after the delegation-level talks between the two countries ...

Bangla Academy award winning poet Makid Haider passed away on Wednesday morning. He breathed his last at about 9:05am at his Uttara residence in the capital, Makid Haider’s son Asif Haider confirmed. The body of the poet will be taken to Bangla Academy premise at 2pm for people from all walks of life to pay their last respect. He will ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was accorded a red carpet reception as she reached the Great Hall of the People to have a bilateral meeting with her Chinese counterpart Li Qiang in Beijing on Wednesday morning. On her arrival at the premises of the Great Hall of the People, the Prime Minister was received by Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang, reports ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday paid glowing tributes at the Monument to the People’s Heroes at the Tian’anmen Square in Beijing. She paid homage to the Chinese heroes by placing a wreath at the Monument, reports BSS. The national anthems of the two countries were played on the occasion while the bugle sounded the last post. After laying the ...

The agitating university students who are against the quota system in government jobs, on Tuesday announced a day-long blockade, dubbed ‘Bangla Blockade’ across the country for Wednesday (July 10). Nahid Islam, coordinator of the student movement, announced the programme at a press briefing held in front of the Central Library of University of Dhaka (DU) on Tuesday afternoon. He also ...

A protest rally was held on Tuesday against the transfer of National Board of Revenue (NBR) first secretary (Tax) Kazi Abu Mahmud Faisal, who was accused of acquiring huge wealth through corruption, to Bogura. The demonstration was organized by Bangladesh Youth Union Bogura District Branch which took place in front of the Tax Commissioner’s office (Region-1) in the Upashahar area ...

The hearing on Nobel Laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus’s revision petition that sought the cancellation of charge farming order in a case filed over embezzling Tk 25.22 crore of Grameen Telecom Workers’ welfare fund, will be held on Wednesday (July 10). When the petition was submitted for hearing on Tuesday, the High Court bench of Justice Nazrul Islam Talukder and Justice Kazi Ibadat ...

The partial central committee of Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal has been announced where Abdul Monayem Munna made the President and Nurul Islam Noyon the general aecretary. The announcement was made through a press release signed by BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Tuesday. BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir approved the partial committee in the direction of the party’s ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday called upon the Chinese business community to invest in Bangladesh’s main sectors for mutual benefits taking the benefits of the world’s most liberal investment regimes, saying, “It is time to invest in Bangladesh, and I am confident that with our hands joined, together we can achieve great things.” “I encourage the Chinese business community ...