Bangladesh

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Saturday urged students to imagine big things always aiming to change the world, reports BSS. “A university or educational institution is not only a place to learn what happen, but imagine,” he said while addressing a function at Peking University (PKU) in Beijing this morning. Noting imagination is the greatest power of the earth, ...

After the massive earthquakes in Myanmar and Thailand, now Bangladesh is at a risk of earthquakes as well. The Fire Service and Civil Defense said that the areas of Chittagong, Sylhet, Mymensingh and Dhaka are particularly at high risk. It has urged public and relevant stakeholders to take precautionary measures to reduce the impact of possible earthquakes, said a press ...

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus received an honorary doctorate degree from Peking University (PKU) in China on Saturday morning. The PKU conferred the honorary doctorate on the Bangladesh chief adviser at a function held at the university conference hall in Beijing. Chief Adviser Prof Yunus also delivered a lecture on the occasion. After wrapping up his four-day China tour, he ...

Dhaka’s proposal to arrange a meeting between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus has gone unanswered by New Delhi. On Friday, India’s Ministry of External Affairs released a media statement detailing Modi’s schedule for the upcoming BIMSTEC summit in Bangkok, Thailand. Notably, the statement made no mention of a bilateral meeting with Yunus. Instead, it highlighted ...

First Lady of the Republic of Turkiye Emine Erdoğan has expressed heartfelt appreciation for Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus for his outstanding contributions and global advocacy in advancing the cause of zero waste. She came up with the appreciation at the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, according to the Bangladesh Mission in New York. Delivering the keynote address at ...

Bangladesh and China have agreed to strengthen cooperation in such areas as hydrological forecasting, flood prevention and disaster reduction, river dredging, integrated management of water resources, water resources development and related technology sharing, reports BSS. During the Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus’s ongoing China tour, the two sides spoke positively of the signing of the Implementation Plan of the MoU ...

Bangladesh and China have signed nine instruments during the Chief Adviser’s Professor Muhammad Yunus’s ongoing China tour, reports BSS. An agreement was signed on Economic and Technical Cooperation between the two governments, Chief Adviser’s Deputy Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad Majumder told BSS. He said eight other documents were signed for cooperation in the areas of development, translation and publication ...

A video of a verbal altercation between Sarjis Alam, the chief organizer (Northern Region) of the Jatiya Nagorik Party (NCP), and Motiar Rahman, a member of the convening committee of BNP’s Atwari Upazila in Panchagarh. The incident took place on Thursday, March 27, in front of the Upazila Nirbahi Officer’s (UNO) office in Atwari, Sarjis’s home district. Prior to this, ...

A court in Dhaka on Thursday declared BNP leader Ishraque Hossain as mayor of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) cancelling the result of 2020 DSCC election. Dhaka First Joint District Judge and Election Tribunal Judge Md Nurul Islam handed down the judgment. The court in its order cancelled the government’s gazette of former Dhaka South City Corporation mayor Sheikh Fazle ...

Executive Vice Premier of the State Council of China Ding Xuexiang met Bangladesh’s Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus on Thursday on the sidelines of the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) conference in China. The meeting was held at Bo’ao State Guest House at Qionghai, Hainan this morning. Energy Adviser M Fouzul Kabir Khan, High Representative to the Chief Adviser Dr ...