Bangladesh

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Monday filed four cases against 19 people including Tarique Ahmed Siddique, former military adviser to former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, on charge of embezzling Tk812 crore from four development projects at three airports. ACC Director General Md Akhter Hossain disclosed the information to journalists at a briefing held at its headquarters on Monday. He said ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said that his party and Islami Andolon Bangladesh (IAB) have agreed on 10-point, including holding a credible national election in a short time after completing necessary ‘minimum’ reforms. Mirza Fakhrul shared the information after holding a two-hour meeting with the IAB Ameer Syed Md Rezaul Karim at the IAB’s central office in Purana ...

Around 350 students from 91 schools in Dhaka have taken part in an art competition on beauties of Nepal at Central Shaheed Minar here. Nepal embassy in Dhaka in collaboration with the Bangladesh-Nepal Friendship Society organised the ‘Painting Competition’ under the theme “Nepal Through My Eyes” on Friday, a press release said here today. The objective of the initiative is ...

BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia went to her son Tarique Rahman’s residence after undergoing treatment at London Clinic, UK for 17 days. As her health condition improved considerably, doctors have advised her to receive treatment staying at home for the time being. Tarique Rahman, acting chairman of the BNP, has driven his mother to home at 9:30PM (London local time) ...

Dr Mostofa Jalal Mohiuddin, former lawmaker of Dhaka-7 constituency and Awami League (AL) leader, has been sent to jail in a case filed over the murder of trader Abdul Wadud in the capital’s New Market area during the anti-discrimination student movement. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mostafizur Rahman passed the order on Friday as police produced him before the court after the ...

Criticising the remarks of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement coordinator and Information adviser Md Nahid Islam, BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi asked on Friday (January 24) that would the advisers teach what the politicians will talk about, what they will support and what they will not? He made the remarks while talking to journalists after offering prayer at ...

No decision has been taken yet on the liver transplant of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia, said her personal physician Dr AZM Zahid Hossain while briefing reporters in front of ‘The London Clinic’ on Thursday night, reports BSS. This information was confirmed to BSS by London-based Bangladeshi journalist Shahed Shafiq. Shahed Shafiq said quoting Dr Zahid as ...

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has stressed the need for establishing a mechanism so that everyone in Bangladesh can vote freely and fairly, without any interruptions or threats. He put the emphasis during a one-on-one conversation with the founder of the World Economic Forum Klaus Schwab at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday, reports ...

Seven individuals, whose eyes were injured during the mass uprising in July-August,  went to Singapore for treatment on Friday. A Biman Bangladesh flight BG-0584 carrying the injured left the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka at 8:30AM. The injured were receiving treatment at the National Institute of Ophthalmology are- Abdullah Al Baki, Akter Hossain, Md Yeamin, Foyez Ahmed, Minhajul Islam ...

Information and Broadcasting Adviser Md Nahid Islam on Thursday said BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir’s demand for a neutral government actually hints at forming another 1/11 government. “The Awami fascism had emerged from the settlement of 1/11 (installation of a military-backed government in 2007). In the BNP secretary general’s remarks, there are signs of another 1/11 government, a ...