Bangladesh

Police have arrested the Dhaka-7 constituency’s former Awami League lawmaker Mostofa Jalal Mohiuddin from Mohammadpur in the capital. He was arrested early Monday from the area by a team of Detective Branch (DB) of police. Mohiuddin, also the president of Bangladesh Medical Associations (BMA), was shown arrested under the Special Power Act, said Dhaka Metropolitan Deputy Commissioner for Media and ...

Anisul Huq, former law minister, Salman F Rahman, private industry affairs adviser to former prime minister Sheikh Hasina; and Zunaid Ahmed Palak, former ICT state minister; and 13 others were shown arrested on Monday in new different cases. Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Md Ziadur Rahman shown them arrested after concerned investigation officers prayed to show them arrested in the cases. ...

A Bangladeshi couple returned home through the Benapole check post on Sunday after serving five years’ of jail in India. The returnees are Md Rashid Sheikh, 40, and his wife Jhorna Khatun, 32, from Mallik Para village in Jhikargachha upazila of Jashore. The Petrapole immigration police handed them over to the Benapole Immigration Police on Sunday evening through a special ...

The government announced a significant step towards a tobacco-free Bangladesh, with new amendments to the Tobacco Control (TC) Law expected to strengthen the country’s fight against tobacco consumption. Professor Dr. Mohammad Sayadur Rahman, Special Assistant (State-ministerial Rank) to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, highlighted the government’s efforts in controlling tobacco use and reducing its impact on public health. ...

New Chargé d’ affaires of the US Embassy in Dhaka, Ambassador Tracey Ann Jacobson, met with Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain and Foreign Secretary Md Jashim Uddin, respectively, on Monday. During the meetings, they discussed shared interests and priorities between the United States and Bangladesh, according to a spokesperson from the US Embassy. Ambassador Jacobson underscored the strong partnership ...

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus has urged Argentina to build on the emotional footballing ties that Bangladesh has with the country to increase bilateral cooperation in different fields, including trade. “We have an emotional connection. We can build on that. The ground is ready. We can take it to other fields,” Dr Yunus said on Sunday, noting Bangladeshi people’s overwhelming ...

The interim government is prioritising the prosecution of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her associates for their alleged involvement in murders and enforced disappearances, said CA’s Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam on Sunday. Speaking at the opening of a training programme for agricultural journalists at the Press Institute of Bangladesh (PIB) in the capital, Alam said some 3,500 people went ...

BNP paid homage to its founder and former President Ziaur Rahman on Sunday on the occasion of his 89th birth anniversary. Thousands of BNP leaders and activists, led by its Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, placed wreaths at Zia’s Sher-e-Banglanagar grave around 11:15am They later offered fateha following a special munajat seeking salvation of the departed soul of Zia. ...

The 89th birth anniversary of the architect of multi-party democracy and founder of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Shaheed President Ziaur Rahman is being celebrated today. The valiant freedom fighter Ziaur Rahman, Bir Uttam, was born on this day in 1936 in Bagbari village under Nashipur Union in Gabtoli of Bogura district. Ziaur Rahman was the second of five sons of ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has urged the interim government to focus on reducing unnecessary development activities and expenses of the government and budgetary allocation for loans to autonomous bodies instead of increasing value added tax (VAT) and supplementary duty. He made the call at a press conference titled ‘Taxes and VAT imposed by the interim government will ...