Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus on Tuesday (October 1) expressed Bangladesh’s continued support for the State of Palestine and its people. “We will continue to support the cause of the Palestinian people,” he said, adding that he hoped they would get their desired independent statehood. Prof Yunus made the remarks when Ambassador of the State of Palestine Yousef Ramadan paid ...

A court in Dhaka has permitted nine lawyers, including Supreme Court Adv Shishir Monir, to continue Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi murder case at the plaintiff’s personal cost. Dhaka’s Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Mahbubul Haque passed this order on Tuesday after hearing on a petition by Nowsher Ali Roman, the plaintiff in the case and brother of Runi. On Monday, ...

The United States (US) has assured Bangladesh of making investment in the fisheries and livestock sectors. “The US is interested to help develop Bangladesh’s fisheries and livestock sectors and invest there,” said US chargé d’affaires here Helen LaFave as she met Fisheries and Livestock Adviser Farida Akhter at her secretariat office here on Monday. During the meeting, the adviser said ...

Bangladesh came up with an abysmal performance on Day 5 of the second and final cricket Test against India to suffer a seven-wicket defeat at Green Park in Kanpur today. Resuming the day at 26-2, they were all out for 146 in its second innings, setting just 95-run target for India to win the match. An indomitable India gunned down ...

Sunamganj Correspondent : A couple and their four children were killed after a fire broke out in a house of Ashrayan project in Sunamganj’s Dharmapasha upazila early Tuesday. The deceased were identified as Emarul, 50, wife Poly Akter, and their four children Polash, Farhad, Fatema Begum and Omar Farruq. Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Mohammad Gius Uddin confirmed the news on ...

Md Jahangir Alam, senior secretary of the Public Security Division under the Home Ministry, has been arrested. A team of Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested him from Gulshan area in the capital on Tuesday morning. Muhammad Talebur Rahman, deputy commissioner (DC) (media and publication) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) confirmed the news to media. Jahanahgir Alam was taken to ...

Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) today called for enhanced security to keep their production units operational, as a labour unrest is ongoing despite meeting workers’ demand. “We are demanding safety, and without it, the factories will suffer due to the labour unrest,” said Abdullah Hil Rakib, BGMEA Senior Vice President, at a press conference at the BGMEA office ...

An FIR has been lodged filed against former Bangladesh cricket team captain and former Member of Parliament, Mashrafe Bin Mortaza, at Pallabi Police Station in the capital. The lawsuit was filed late on Sunday night by former chairman of the Sylhet Strikers Team and US expatriate Sarwar Golam Chowdhury. In the complaint, he alleged that Mashrafe, along with other accused, ...

Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU), the central bank’s anti-money laundering agency, has asked all banks and financial institutions to freeze all the bank accounts of ousted premier Sheikh Hasina’s children Sajeeb Wazed Joy and Saima Wazed Putul. Besides, the bank accounts of Sheikh Rehana’s son Radwan Mujib Siddique and former state minister for Power Nasrul Hamid Bipu have been frozen. ...

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in a drive seized huge Indian sugar and tea leaves worth about over Tk 75 lakh in Radhanagar area at Jaflong in Sylhet on Monday. “A team of BGB-48 Battalion conducted a drive in Sylhet Goainghat border area and seized 43,550-kg Indian sugar worth about Taka 74.61 lakh and 1,548 kg Indian tea leaves,” Sylhet BGB ...