Bangladesh Jamaat-e Islami-Ameer Shafiqur Rahman has said his party was not consulted over any international agreements concluded during the tenure of the interim government, contradicting recent remarks by the foreign minister. In a statement posted on his verified Facebook account on Friday, Dr Shafiqur said several agreements had been signed with different countries during the interim administration’s time in office, ...

A total of 165 Bangladeshi nationals have been repatriated from Libya with the assistance of the Bangladesh Embassy in Libya, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Bangladesh), the Ministry of Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment, the Libyan authorities and the International Organization for Migration. According to officials, the returnees arrived in Bangladesh at around 5:30am on a flight operated by Buraq ...

A blockbuster anti-obesity and diabetes drug could cost as little as $3 per month to manufacture once it goes off patent later this month, researchers said Friday, providing a major opportunity to boost health in low and middle-income countries. Semaglutide, the active molecule in Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic and Wegovy treatments, leads to considerable weight-loss in patients and thus can provide ...

Four men were arrested in Britain on Friday on suspicion of assisting Iran’s intelligence service by spying on locations and people linked to London’s Jewish community, police said. The men, one Iranian national and three dual British-Iranians, were arrested by counterterrorism police at three separate addresses in the UK capital, the Metropolitan police said in a statement. The force’s head ...

BNP Chairman and Prime Minister Tarique Rahman on Friday morning inaugurated a training workshop at the BNP chairman’s Gulshan office. Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) arranged the training workshop for its lawmakers ahead of the first session of the 13th National Parliament, said Prime Minister’s Additional Press Secretary Atiqur Rahman Rumon. BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Standing Committee Members ...

Shocking allegations of corruption involving advisers of the former interim government are gradually coming to light. Not only that, serious accusations of corruption and irregularities have also been found against several officials who were appointed to different institutions on the advisers’ recommendations while they were in power. According to relevant sources, hundreds of complaints against former advisers have already been ...

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has described two advisers of the former interim government as the new “Mir Jafars” of Bengal, alleging that the 13th National Parliamentary Election was not conducted fairly. Party’s Nayeb-e-Ameer Syed Abdullah Mohammad Taher made the remarks during a briefing at Jamaat’s central office in Moghbazar on Thursday. During the briefing, he mentioned the names of former Information Adviser ...

Ahsan H Mansur assumed leadership of Bangladesh’s central bank in August 2024 with a strong pledge to reform the country’s fragile economy and tackle corruption and disorder in the financial sector. However, information obtained by Bangladesh Pratidin suggests a different side of the story. According to the report, a court in the United States had previously found him guilty of ...

Bangladesh women’s national football team have made two changes to their starting lineup ahead of their second Group B match against three-time winners North Korea on Friday in the AFC Women’s Asian Cup. Head coach Peter Butler has brought in Tohura Khatun and Airin Khatun to the starting XI, replacing Umhela Marma and Sheuli Azim from the lineup that faced ...

US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Paul Kapur paid homage to the graves of Shaheed President Ziaur Rahman and former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia on Thursday during his official visit to Dhaka. Paul Kapur arrived at the gravesite around noon, accompanied by US Ambassador Brent T Christensen. As renovation work is currently underway at President ...