Bangladesh

British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has reaffirmed the United Kingdom’s commitment to supporting Rohingya refugees, announcing a new £27 million aid package aimed at delivering essential humanitarian assistance in Bangladesh. The package will provide critical services such as food, shelter, clean water, healthcare and protection to over half a million Rohingya refugees who have been displaced from Myanmar due to ...

Ahmad Rafique, noted language movement activist, poet, essayist and renowned Rabindra researcher, has passed away. He was 94. He breathed his last at 10:12 PM on Thursday at ICU of BIRDEM Hospital in Dhaka. (Inna lillahi wa inna ilaihi raji’un) His longtime driver Md. Russel confirmed the news of his death. Doctors at BIRDEM Hospital said Rafique suffered a cardiac ...

The five-day Durga Puja festival, the largest annual religious celebration of the Bengali Hindu community, came to a close on Thursday with the immersion of Durga’s idols in rivers and water bodies across the country amid colour, music and emotion. In keeping with Hindu tradition, devotees believe that following the immersion, the goddess returns to her celestial abode in Kailash, ...

Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan has called for enhanced global cooperation, finance and technology transfer to achieve transformational adaptation in the face of climate change. She made the call while speaking at the Ministerial Roundtable of the 9th Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum held under the theme ‘Resilience for All: Catalyzing Transformational Adaptation’ in Bangkok on October 1, an official release ...

Journalists boycotted press conference of National Citizen Party (NCP) and returned back from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport after assaulting there by the party leaders and activists on Thursday morning. The incident happened at about 9:45AM at VIP entrance of the airport. According to the journalists, one of the media man requested NCP leaders, who were chanting slogans, to keep clam ...

The Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the Hindu community, comes to a close on Thursday, with the celebration of Bijoya Dashami. The day’s rituals marked with grand offerings, arati, and worship. The concluding rites begin this morning with the Dashami Bihit Puja, followed by the darpon bisorjon (ritual immersion of a mirror after holding it in front the ...

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus has expressed deep sorrow at the death of Dr Jane Goodall, a world renowned zoologist, primatologist, anthropologist and conservationist. “I am deeply saddened by the passing of my dear friend Dr Jane Goodall, a world renowned zoologist, primatologist, anthropologist and conservationist,” he said in a condolence message early hours of Thursday. A tireless activist till ...

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus returned home on Thursday, wrapping up his nine-day New York tour to attend the 80th UN General Assembly (UNGA) session. A commercial flight of Emirates airlines, carrying the Chief Adviser and his entourages, landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka at 9AM. Earlier, the flight departed from John F Kennedy International Airport in New ...

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) AMM Nasir Uddin has said that expatriates will now have the opportunity to cast their votes with the help of modern technology. ”No matter where they are in the world, the expatriates will be able to vote with the help of modern technology. This initiative will be marked as a historic milestone in the country’s democratic ...

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus left New York on Tuesday night (US time) for Dhaka, concluding a nine-day visit. An Emirates Airlines commercial flight, carrying the Chief Adviser and his small entourage, took off from John F. Kennedy International Airport at 11:10PM (US time). Bangladesh Ambassador to the United States Tareq Md Ariful Islam and Bangladesh’s Permanent Representative to the ...