Bangladesh

Major General Md Faizur Rahman has been appointed as the Director General (DG) of DGFI (Directorate General of Forces Intelligence). The Inter-Services Public Relations Directorate (ISPR) confirmed the matter in a press release on Monday (August 12). Major General Md Nasim Parvez has been appointed as the Commandant of MIST (Military Institute of Science and Technology), and Major General Abdul ...

Traffic police started performing duties on various roads in the capital from Monday morning after about one week of work abstention due to insecurity after the fall of Hasina government. Students were seen managing traffic on the roads in the capital and other parts of the country in the last few days, reports UNB. Members of the traffic police are ...

Home Affairs Adviser Brigadier General (Retd.) M Sakhawat Hossain has ordered to surrender firearms, which were looted from the police stations across the country, within seven days. “Operation to recover the looted arms will start if the weapons are not submitted by next Monday (August 19). And if we get those arms to anyone, stern action will be taken against ...

Newly appointed Chief Justice Sayed Refaat Ahmed paid tributes to the martyrs of 1971 Liberation War by placing floral wreath at the National Memorial in Savar on Monday. He placed the wreath at 7am and signed the visitor’s book there. The chief justice left the area around 7:30am. Later, he went to the Central Shaheed Minar and placed a wreath ...

A total of 42 members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and police were killed in attacks by angry mobs during the recent quota reform movement. The Inspector General of Police (IGP) Md Mainul Islam said this after visiting the injured police members at Rajarbagh Central Police Hospital in the capital on Sunday. He said two RAB members and forty ...

BNP Standing Committee member Salahuddin Ahmed returned home from India after around nine years on Sunday. He arrived at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka from Delhi around 2:00 PM, said BNP media cell member Shairul Kabir Khan. Salahuddin went missing from Uttara in the capital on 10 March 2015. After 62 days, on 11 May of that year, local ...

Adviser for Home Affairs Brigadier General (Retd.) M Sakhawat Hossain has said media outlets will be shut down if they indulge in flattery. “The media will be closed, if you indulge in flattery. I promise you if the media is flattering, then the media will be shut down.” Sakhawat Hossain made this comment after visiting the injured police members at ...

Syed Refaat Ahmed was sworn in as the 25th Chief Justice of Bangladesh. The oath-taking ceremony was held at the Darbar Hall of the president’s official residence around 12:45pm on Sunday. President Mohammed Shahabuddin administered the oath to the chief justice.  

Advisers Supradip Chakma and Bidhan Ranjan Roy of the interim government took oaths on Sunday (August 11). President Mohammed Shahabuddin administered the oath at Bangabhaban. Now, the size of the interim government, so far, has reached 16, including the chief adviser. Interim government Chief Adviser Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus was present in the oath taking ceremony.  

Members of Bangladesh Navy took Mohammad Ali, the former lawmaker from Noakhali-6 under their custody. They also took Mohammad Ali’s wife Ayesha Ferdous and his son Ashiq Ali, chairman of Hatiya upazila parishad. A team of navy, led by Hatiya camp commander, went to Charkailash residence of Mohammad Ali under Hatiya municipality and took the trio from there. Ali’s wife ...