Bangladesh

China has said, with its visiting medical team, they will help Bangladesh assess the injuries and provide emergency humanitarian medical assistance based on Bangladesh’s needs, including sending more emergency medical teams to treat patients on-site and providing necessary medical supplies. This is the first emergency medical team from China to Bangladesh since the establishment of the Interim Government, which highlights ...

Former law minister Anisul Huq and IGP Abdullah Al Mamun have been shown arrested in new murder cases. Anisul was shown arrested in a murder case filed with Khilgaon Police Station, while Mamun was shown arrested in two separate murder cases. Around 8AM on Monday, they were produced before a Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court from jail. Then investigation officer ...

Chief Adviser Prof Dr Muhammad Yunus departed for New York on Monday morning to attend the 79th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). A Qatar Airways QR-643 flight, carrying Prof Yunus, left Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital at about 5:05AM. He will stay in New York for three days and depart for Bangladesh on September 27 after delivering his ...

Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Pranay Verma on Sunday told BNP leaders that his country wants to further strengthen its relations with Bangladesh. He also said India is also working to strengthen the relations of Indian political parties with BNP. The Indian envoy met BNP leaders, led by its Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, at BNP Chairperson’s Gulshan Office ...

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested former state minister for Water Resources Colonel (Retd) Zahid Faruk Shamim from Baridhara in Dhaka on Sunday evening. RAB media and legal wing director Lt Col Munim Ferdous said the arrestee was handed over to Detective Branch (DB) of police. Zahid Faruk is accused in several murder cases with different police stations, the official said, ...

Ruhul Amin has been removed from his position as khatib of the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque on Sunday. A notification signed by the Ministry of Religious Affairs secretary Md Abu Bakar Siddique was issued  in this regard  on Sunday (September 22). It said Ruhul Amin has been formally removed following due process. Ruhul Amin stopped coming to the mosque after ...

Nagorik Oikya president Mahmudur Rahman Manna has been admitted to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital (BSMMU) with chest pain early Sunday. His personal physician, Dr Shoaeb Muhammad confirmed the news saying that Manna has suffered a cardiac arrest and is currently under intensive observation at the Coronary Care Unit (CCU) of the hospital. He is not out of danger ...

Chief of Army Staff General Waker-Uz-Zaman has called on Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus at his office. He paid a courtesy call on Chief Adviser at his office on Sunday noon, press secretary Shafiqul Alam confirmed. Source said, General Waker-Uz-Zaman informed law and order situation of the country to Prof Muhammad Yunus. Besides, they will discuss different internal issues of ...

Former Railways minister Nurul Islam Sujan has been placed on fresh five-day remand in Jatrabari murder case. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Saddam Hossain passed the remand order on Sunday. Earlier, investigation officer (IO) Mriganko Shekhar Talukder pleaded for 10-day remand after producing the former minister before a Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court from jail. On the other hand, the defense lawyer submitted ...

Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed has said the true independence of judges in Bangladesh hinges on the abolition of the long-standing dual governance system within the judiciary. The joint authority of the Supreme Court and the Ministry of Law must be dismantled to facilitate a separate secretariat under the Bangladesh Supreme Court, he told judges of subordinate courts at the ...