Bangladesh

A total of 300 platoons of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) have been deployed across the country to maintain law and order during the third phase of the 6th upazila parishad election to be held on Wednesday. BGB will work as a mobile and striking force to maintain peace and order in the electoral areas from May 27 to May 31. ...

Fatalities have been reported from Khulna, Satkhira, Barishal, Patuakhali, Bhola and Chattogram between Sunday night and 6:30pm on Monday (May 27), police and local administration officials have confirmed. The victims are Moneja Khatun, 55, wife of Abdul Kader from Char Umed area in Bhola’s Lalmohan upazila, Daulatkhan Upazila’s Maisha, 4, and Borhan Uddin Upazila’s Zakir, 50; Lalchand Morol, 36, son ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will visit the areas affected by the cyclone Remal. Awami League (AL) General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader informed this at a press conference at the party’s Dhanmondi office in the capital on Monday. Quader said the party leaders and workers, including the public representatives, have been directed to stand by the ...

The Election Commission has decided to suspend voting in 19 upazilas in the third phase of the upazila polls due to cyclone Remal, which made landfall in Bangladesh coast on Sunday. The EC Secretary Md Jahangir Alam told this at a press conference held in the capital on Monday. He said that the commission took decision as many electoral areas ...

Power supply to 2.22 crore consumers of the Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board (BREB), out of its total 3.58 crore, has been suspended following the landfall of cyclone Remal on Sunday. According to a top official of the BREB, these consumers are living in the areas belonging to 61 Palli Biduyt Samities (PBSs), out of a total 81. “The areas where ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday extended an invitation to US business leaders to explore business opportunities in Bangladesh and partner with the country in its journey towards becoming a developed, prosperous, and smart nation by 2041. “I invite you to invest in our many vibrant and high-potential sectors, such as renewable energy, shipbuilding, automobiles, pharmaceuticals, light and heavy machinery, ...

Cyclone Rimal has caused extensive damage in Bagerhat’s Mongla. The heavy rain with gusty wind which started since Sunday night, is still continue. According to upazila project implementation officer Md Jafor Rana, at least 8,000 houses and several tree were damaged during the storm. Electric poles also fell down. Sixty-thousand people marooned as 10 to 12 villages were flooded with ...

The cyclonic storm Remal started crossing coastal regions of Bangladesh packing winds up to 120 km per hour. “The cyclonic storm Remal started crossing … the entire process of crossing of the cyclone will take 5 to 7 hours,” Dr Abul Kalam Mallik, a meteorologist of Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) said last night. The severe cyclonic storm “Remal” over northwest ...

Awami League general secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Sunday said the government remains alert so that no journalists face any harassment in the name of Digital Act. He said this while addressing the founding anniversary programme of the Dhaka Reporters’ Unity (DRU) on the premises of DRU at Segunbagicha in the capital. Quader also urged ...

A court in Dhaka has ordered police to confiscate 119 more properties in the names of former Inspector General of Police (IGP) Benazir Ahmed, his wife, and daughters, and four flats in his name at Gulshan in the capital. At the same time, the court ordered to confiscate the shares in their names at different companies and family savings certificates ...