Bangladesh

Grameen Telecom Chairman Dr Muhammad Yunus has made an appeal to the High Court to cancel the proceedings of the money embezzlement case lodged against him. The application is scheduled to be heard by the high court division bench of Justice Nazrul Islam Talukder and Justice Kazi Ibadat Hossain. Barrister Abdullah Al Mamun, lawyer of the defendants’ said “The application ...

The ruling Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader has said that the anti-quota movement that cause public suffering should be avoided till the High Court verdict. “Politics has involved in this movement. BNP has extended their support which means joining the movement.” Quader said these while addressing a press conference at the AL president’s Dhanmondi political office. “We are closely ...

A Dhaka court has set July 23 for holding hearing on a plea of police to take BNP leader Ishraque Hossain on 10-day remand in a sedition case. Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Saifur Rahman set the date as police produced Ishraque before the court and pleaded to take him on remand in the case filed over presenting a man before ...

Five young people were crushed under the wheels of a train at Raipura upazila in Narsingdi district on Monday morning. The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately. But four of them were in between 18 to 20 years, another one was above 20. The incident happened in Komoltoli Khaksar area near Methikanda Railway Station in the upazila at ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday left Dhaka for Beijing on a four-day bilateral visit invited by her Chinese counterpart. The visit is believed to elevate the relations between Bangladesh and China to “comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership” from “strategic partnership”, reports BSS. A special flight (BG1701) of the Biman Bangladesh Airlines, carrying the prime minister and her entourage members, departed from Hazrat ...

BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia was admitted to Evercare Hospital in the capital early Monday as her health condition suddenly deteriorated. BNP media cell member Shayrul Kabir Khan said, “The BNP chief suddenly fell ill at an early hours and taken to the hospital immediately. And after reaching there, she was hospitalised.” Earlier, the BNP chairperson left her Gulshan residence for ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday dismissed the movement against the quota system in the government jobs as irrational saying it’s sub-judice. “I don’t think there is any rationality for what is being done today in the name of movement by wasting the study time,” she said, reports UNB. The premier said this when the central leaders of Jubo Mohila ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will leave Dhaka for Beijing on a four-day bilateral visit Monday morning, which is believed to elevate the relations between Bangladesh and China to “comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership” from “strategic partnership”. A chartered flight (BG1701) of the Biman Bangladesh Airlines, carrying the Prime Minister and her entourage members, will depart Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 11:00am ...

Academic and administrative activities at public universities across the country remain halted as the indefinite strike by teachers protesting the ‘Prattay pension scheme’ enters its fifth consecutive day. Dr. Nizamul Haque Bhuiyan, Secretary General of the University Teachers Association Federation and President of the Dhaka University Teachers Association, emphasized their commitment to the protest. They will continue the movement until ...

BNP has announced new committees for its units in four cities–Dhaka North, Dhaka South, Chattogram and Barishal. A press release issued by BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi confirmed this on Sunday. Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal’s former president Saiful Alam Nirob and BNP’s sports affairs secretary Aminul Haq will lead BNP’s Dhaka North unit as convener and member secretary, ...