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, ...

Rachel Reeves has squeezed the welfare budget further and boosted defence spending in a Spring Statement aimed at kick-starting the faltering economy. The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) – the government’s financial watchdog – halved its growth forecast for this year to 1%. The chancellor blamed global instability, arguing that the world was “changing before our eyes” and promising a ...

African 2026 World Cup qualifying facts, figures after matchday six Mohamed Salah Leading the Charge Mohamed Salah, the prolific Liverpool forward, leads the goal-scoring charts in African World Cup qualifiers with six goals. The 32-year-old started the campaign with a bang, scoring four times in Egypt’s 6-0 win over Djibouti in Cairo on matchday one. He also netted in away ...

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 ...

Experts at an orientation meeting unanimously said concerted efforts of all the government and non-government organizations concerned can be the effective means of bringing the obstetrics patients under treatment and rehabilitation. In reality, the patients suffering from obstetrics fistula are subjected to repression, oppression and isolation by their surroundings. Utmost emphasis should be given on bringing them under treatment and ...

A new meta-analysis published in Nutrients has shattered the popular belief that red wine is a healthier alcoholic option. After analysing data from 42 studies, researchers found no significant difference in overall cancer risk between red and white wine — and no type of wine was shown to be “safe” when it comes to cancer prevention. “Red wine’s reputation for ...

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot reiterated France’s opposition to “any form of trade war” as he met Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Beijing on Thursday. “France opposes any form of trade war and advocates dialogue on trade issues, particularly between the European Union and China,” Barrot said.