Bangladesh

Nepalese Ambassador in Dhaka Hari Kumar Shrestha made a farewell call on President Abdul Hamid at Bangabhaban in the capital on Sunday. During the meeting, the Nepalese envoy expressed his gratitude to the Bangladesh government and the people for extending cooperation to Nepal for post-earthquake rescue operations and reconstruction, quoting President’s Press Secretary Joynal Abedin BSS reports. Shrestha highly appreciated ...

State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak on Saturday said the temporary ban on social networking site Facebook and online messaging and calling services WhatsApp and Viber will be withdrawn after getting the green signal from the law-enforcement agencies, reports UNB. “The temporary ban on Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp and Viber has been imposed for national security,” the state minister said ...

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan today said a vested quarter is conspiring to make Bangladesh “dysfunctional” by smearing it with the name of Islamic State (IS) Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan today said a vested quarter is conspiring to make Bangladesh “dysfunctional” by smearing it with the name of Islamic State (IS). “There is no IS in Bangladesh. Efforts are on to ...

The BNP and the Workers’ Party of Bangladesh had called for deferring the polls but the Election Commission (EC) made it clear that there was no scope for that. Both the parties formally confirmed their participation on Saturday. The BNP has authorised its Joint Secretary General Md Shahjahan to attest its mayor candidates for the elections to be held in ...

Bangladesh has refuted the claims of UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights that there are doubts encircling the ICT-BD trials. The Office also called for abolishing death penalty. In its response to the Press Breifing notes of the Office, Bangladesh expressed that it is highly disturbed by the conclusion made in the Press Briefing Note with regard ...

The Election Commission on Wednesday said the candidature of all of the mayoral candidates of a political party would be cancelled if more than one of the mayoral candidates file nomination papers from that party. “A political party will be able to nominate a single mayoral candidate in the municipality polls. The candidature of all of the mayoral candidates of ...

The United Nations has renewed its call on the Bangladesh government to immediately institute a moratorium on the death penalty and abolish this inhuman practice altogether. The call was made by Ravina Shamdasani, spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, in a statement issued in Geneva today following Sunday’s execution of two war criminals. “We have long warned ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wednesday laid importance on improving the quality of internet services as it is now extensively used in everyday life of the people. Purchasing capacity of the people has gone up and their living standards have also improved. So, the people now want to lead a better life, employing the facilities of information and communication technology (ICT), ...

Information Minister Hasanul Huq today urged the community radios to play a greater role in empowering ordinary people in view of their growing number of audience, saying 16 such radios so far drew 50 lakh listeners. “Community radios talk about the happiness and sorrows of the people at grassroots and works as a bridge between the government and the people,” ...

  It approves total 12 projects involving Tk 16,978.80cr The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) today approved the much-hyped multilane road tunnel project under the Karnaphuli River involving Tk 8,446.64 crore. The approval was given at the Ecnec meeting held at the NEC conference room with Ecnec Chairperson and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair. Briefing ...