King Charles will travel to Auschwitz later this month to attend an event marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp. The commemoration in Poland will take place on 27 January, with the King among the international visitors expected for memorial events. On Monday afternoon at Buckingham Palace, the King will meet people involved in education ...

Chittagong Kings continued their impressive resurgence in the Bangladesh Premier League with a 30-run victory over Sylhet Strikers on Monday. This marked their third consecutive win in the tournament, placing them in second position on the points table with three wins from four matches under the captaincy of Mohammad Mithun. In the final match of the Sylhet leg, Chittagong batted ...

India summoned Bangladesh’s Acting High Commissioner, Md. Nural Islam, in New Delhi on Monday to address escalating tensions over border issues. The move follows Bangladesh summoning Indian High Commissioner Pranay Verma a day earlier to express deep concern regarding recent activities by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along the shared border. On Sunday, Bangladesh’s Foreign Secretary Md. Jashim Uddin ...

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has urged Malaysia to issue multiple-entry visas for Bangladeshi workers to ease their ability to return home when necessary. The appeal was made during a meeting with the Malaysian High Commissioner to Bangladesh, Mohd Shuhada Othman, at the State Guest House Jamuna on Monday. Professor Yunus also called for Malaysia’s assistance in facilitating the entry ...

The Bangladesh’s fashion houses always try to make their presence felt in the competitive world with new clothing line. While they try to bring up clothing line for people of all ages or all walk of life, the common target is the youth people. Generally there is a certain age where people try to be fashion-savvy and try to embrace ...

Boro farming is going on in full swing in Magura and Sylhet district as favourable weather is prevailing here. Our Correspondent from Magura says, according to the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) in Magura, as many as 39,396 hectares of land have been brought into Boro cultivation in the district this season. The production target has been fixed at 177,290 ...

Foreign Secretary Ambassador Md Jashim Uddin has expressed deep concern of government of Bangladesh to the High Commissioner of India Pranay Verma over the recent activities of the Border Security Force (BSF) of India along the Bangladesh-India Border. On Sunday afternoon, the Indian High Commissioner was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Then during a meeting Jashim Uddin expressed ...

The government plans to form a taskforce and implement various activities through a time-bound action plan to address air pollution, said Syeda Rizwana Hasan, Adviser to the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change, reports UNB. She made the remarks at a seminar titled “Air Quality Research and Environmental Policy Discussion,” jointly organized by the Faculty of Science at Dhaka ...

European Union (EU) Ambassador to Bangladesh Michael Miller met BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday and discussed a range of issues relating to Bangladesh’s upcoming election, democratic transition and foreign investment. “The hour-long meeting, which began around 3:30pm, was held at the BNP Chairperson’s Gulshan office,” said BNP media cell member Shairul Kabir Khan, reports UNB. BNP ...

Tens of thousands of people forced from their homes by enormous fires raking Los Angeles will not be able to return for at least four days, officials said Sunday. Frustrated evacuees have formed lines at checkpoints hoping to get into evacuation zones created for the Palisades Fire and the Eaton Fire, whose massive blazes razed whole neighborhoods. Many are desperate ...