The government today approved separate proposals for procuring some 1.40 lakh metric tons of fertilizer from various sources to meet the growing demand of the country. The approvals came from the 5th meeting of the Adviser’s Council Committee meeting on Government Purchase in this year held today with Finance and Commerce Adviser Dr Salehuddin Ahmed in the chair at the ...

Former civil aviation and tourism minister Rashed Khan Menon and also President of Bangladesh Workers Party, has been sent to jail in a case filed on charge of attacking BNP standing committee member Mirza Abbas during an election campaign at Shegunbagicha in Dhaka in 2018. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sanaullah passed the order on Wednesday after the investigating officer of ...

A court in Narsingdi on Wednesday sent former industries minister Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun to jail in a case filed for killing a workers’ leader in Narsingdi on August 4 during quota protest. Around 12:14PM, Narsingdi Judicial Magistrate Rakibul Islam passed the order rejecting five-day remand prayer of the plaintiff. Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) members arrested Nurul Majid from Gulshan ...

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested general secretary of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) Sajibur Rahman from Narsingdi’s Raipura early Wednesday. Sajibur, 24, son of Robi Ullah, was a resident of Dukundichar village under Raipura upazila of Narsingdi. Mashihur Rahman, assistant superintendent of police at RAB-9, said on a tipp-off, members of RAB-9 ...

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus has sought international community’s continuous attention to the Rohingya crisis, otherwise, he warned that it might put the entire region in trouble, not just Bangladesh. “We must pay attention,” he said while speaking at a high-level discussion on the Rohingya crisis held on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly on Tuesday afternoon (NY time). ...

Africa’s leading carrier Ethiopian Airlines has announced to launch its new flights on Addis Ababa-Dhaka-Addis Ababa route from November 2. Initially, weekly five flights will be launched on the route. Managing Director of Rhythm Group, the airline’s General Sales Agent (GSA) in Bangladesh, Shohag Hossain confirmed this. According to UNB reports “Bangladesh is a dynamic and growing market, and we ...

The bilateral meeting held between Chief Adviser Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus and US President Joseph R Biden Tuesday was a rare opportunity for Bangladesh and a big step to take the relations to a new height. The meeting was held at the UN headquarters at 11 am (NY time), which was the first meeting of the Bangladesh interim government chief ...

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus on Tuesday joined in New York a welcome reception with heads of delegation representing various countries at the UN General Assembly hosted by Secretary General António Guterres at the UN headquarters, reports UNB. World leaders gathered here to engage in the annual high-level General Debate under the theme, “Leaving no one behind: acting together for ...

Britain must prepare for more pylons and more prisons to deliver “national renewal”, Sir Keir Starmer has said. Sir Keir used his first conference speech as Prime Minister to tell the British public would have to accept “trade-offs” as he prepared to take on the “massive challenges the Tories ignored”. Addressing the party faithful in Liverpool, Sir Keir said: “So ...

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has set out plans to crackdown on crime as she said the government would attempt to halve knife offences in a decade. In a speech to Labour conference, Cooper said police would be given new powers to tackle anti-social behaviour, off-road bikes and shoplifting. The government would also pass a new law to ban the sale ...