Bangladesh

Photo: BNP leader Rizvi Ahmed and Habib-un-Nabi. A Dhaka court on Monday morning issued arrest warrant against eight BNP leaders including Senior Joint Secretary General Rizvi Ahmed in a case filed for exploding bomb in Pallabi area in the capital last year. Judge (in-charge) of the Metropolitan Session Judge’s Court Ruhul Amin passed the order after accepting the charges against ...

  Efforts are on by Indian seismologists and geologists to jointly carry out studies with Bangladesh and Myanmar and form a common geodetic network to verify fresh data and sort out discrepancies over earthquake-related research in the region.   In a recent paper in Nature Geoscience, a group of scientists published new evidence of the increasing strain building beneath Bangladesh, ...

Japan has sought a thorough investigation of the facts regarding the killing of its nationals during the Dhaka cafe attack, sharing of related information and strict punishments for the perpetrators. Japan also hoped for full-fledged cooperation to ensure the safety of Japanese people residing in and traveling to Bangladesh and to prevent recurrence, said a Japanese Foreign Ministry release. Japanese ...

  Urging Sheikh Hasina not to consider herself alone in her fight against terrorism, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday told his Bangladesh counterpart that his country will extend all possible help to Bangladesh to fight the menace.   “India stands with Bangladesh in its fight against terrorism,” he said while along with Sheikh Hasina was inaugurating the second ...

The Anti-Corruption Commission on Wednesday arrested three bankers at Dhaka in separate graft cases. The commission’s deputy director Jahangir Alam arrested general manager of ICB Islamic Bank Limited Humayun Kabir and former executive officer of the bank Ashfaqul Hakim in a case filed over loan scam, ACC public relations officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya said, reports United News of Bangladesh. On ...

A forensic team of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on Wednesday collected fresh blood samples of July 1 Gulshan cafe attackers to ascertain if they took any stimulant or drug before carrying out the carnage. The doctors collected the samples from Dhaka’s Combined Military Hospital, where the bodies are being kept. Assistant professor of forensic and medicine department at Dhaka ...

The government has sent notices to 12,957 commercial establishments located in residential areas or buildings in cities across Bangladesh. The responses will be studied before deciding whether to evict them. It has also been decided not to renew their trade licences or allow any more establishments in these places. Md Abdul Malek, secretary of the Local Government Division, chaired a ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said her government has given importance on blue economy and under the policy the government would start exploring newly owned maritime areas within five years. The prime minister said this while addressing a function on the occasion of the National Fisheries Week-2016 at Krishibid Institute auditorium in Dhaka on Wednesday. Organized by Ministry of Livestock ...

Teachers, staff and students of Jahangirangar University on Wednesday protested against the recent terrorist attacks at Gulshan and Sholakia, at the university campus. The protesters formed a human-chain at the main entrance of the campus in the morning where more than 1000 protestors gathered including teachers, students and staff of the university. Addressing the rally, the university vice-chancellor Farzana Islam ...

BNP senior leader Abdullah Al Noman on Tuesday said the Prime Minister’s remark on their proposed national unity will divide the nation instead of making them united to tackle a serious national problem like militancy. “The Prime Minister is making a mistake by saying that a national unity already exists. Militancy is a disease and a national problem. It won’t ...