Bangladesh

At least ten people were killed and three more were injured in a collision between a bus and a microbus on Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar highway in Lohagara upazila of Chattogram on Wednesday morning. Seven of the victims died on the spot, and five among them were identified as Dilip Biswas, 43, Sadhana Biswas, 37, Aradhya Biswas, 7, Ashish Mandul, 50, and ...

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus will leave here tomorrow for Bangkok to join the sixth Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) Summit. “A flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the Chief Adviser and his entourage will depart Hazrat Shahjalal international Airport at 9am tomorrow,” Chief Adviser’s High Representative on Rohingya and priority issues Dr Khalilur ...

BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Tuesday alleged that the “defeated force” influenced The New York Times to publish a report by providing “false” information about Bangladesh. “The allies of fascism own thousands of crores of illegal money. They are trying to stigmatize Bangladesh by using their illicit money,” Rizvi said while talking to the media at ...

Foreign Secretary Md Jashim Uddin today urged all the BIMSTEC member states to extend their full cooperation to ensure timely finalization of six fundamental agreements on trade. “Realisation of the FTA is paramount for our region’s collective economic advancement,” he said in the 25th BIMSTEC Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM) in Bangkok, said a foreign ministry press release. Jashim Uddin is ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday said Chief Adviser Dr. Muhammad Yunus’s China visit is a big success for the government. “During the Awami League government, relations were established unilaterally with one party. But with government changeover, China has changed its thinking. They are now talking to all political parties,” he said while exchanging Eid greetings with ...

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Dr Shafiqur Rahman Tuesday said the fight to build a corruption-free Bangladesh as expected by the martyrs is not over, rather it has begun from now. “This fight will continue. If necessary, I’ll also sacrifice my life to fulfill the expectation,” he told a function on the Dakbanglow ground in Kulaura upazila of the district, reports BSS. ...

Information and Broadcasting Adviser Md Mahfuj Alam today said that the individuals involved in enforced disappearances will be brought to justice during the tenure of the interim government. The adviser made the remarks while exchanging views with the families of the victims of enforced disappearances. Human rights organizing “Mayer Dak” organized the event in the city’s Tejgaon area this afternoon, ...

The New York Times article titled “As Bangladesh Reinvents Itself, Islamist Hard-Liners See an Opening” is a misleading one, said the Chief Adviser’s Press Wing today. “The New York Times article paints a troubling and one-sided view of Bangladesh, suggesting that the country is on the brink of being overtaken by religious extremism,” the press wing said in a statement ...

A 55-member rescue and medical team from Bangladesh reached Nay Pyi Taw on Tuesday afternoon to extend humanitarian assistance to the earthquake affected people of Myanmar. Two C 130 J and one CASA C 295W flights carried the team along with a total 15 metric tons of relief materials comprising 4.2 metric ton medicine and medical products, tent, and dry ...

Bangladesh has sent the second mission of emergency medicines and relief supplies to the victims of the devastating earthquake in Myanmar. These supplies and medicines were sent via three transport aircraft of the Bangladesh Army (BA) and Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) on Tuesday morning, following the instructions of Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus, CA’s Deputy Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad ...