Route permits of passenger vessels charging fares beyond the fixed rates and carrying extra passengers, will be cancelled, said Shipping Adviser Brig Gen (retd) M Sakhawat Hossain on Thursday. “No passenger vessel would be allowed to charge more than the fixed fare and a fare chart must be displayed publicly from today.” The adviser came up with this warning after ...

Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain left Dhaka for Saudi Arabia on Thursday to join a special session of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Jeddah. The extraordinary session of the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers will be held on Friday, said an official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The session is expected to discuss the progress of ...

The United Nations (UN) will cut monthly food aid for Rohingyas in Cox’s Bazar and Bhasan Char by more than half from April due to a funding crisis. The World Food Programme (WFP) informed this to Bangladesh on Wednesday (March 5). Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner (RRRC) Mizanur Rahman said that WFP verbally communicated its decision on Tuesday before sending ...

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Thursday acquitted BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman and his businessman Gias Uddin Al Mamun from a money laundering case charge. They were sentenced to seven years’ of imprisonment by the High Court in this case. A four-member tribunal, led by Chief Justice Dr Syed Refaat Ahmed, issued this order, said the defendants’ ...

Pakistan s Additional Foreign Secretary (Asia & Pacific), Ambassador Imran Ahmed Siddiqui, held a series of meetings with senior Bangladeshi officials to review and strengthen bilateral cooperation across multiple sectors, including foreign relations, trade, culture, visa and people-to-people exchanges. During his meeting with Mr. Md. Jashim Uddin, Foreign Secretary of Bangladesh, both sides reviewed the current state of Pakistan-Bangladesh relations, ...

A Dhaka court on Wednesday issued an order to freeze 39 bank accounts of former Land Minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury. The total balance of these accounts is approximately 52.6 million (Bangladeshi Taka). Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Zakir Hossain Galib passed this order following an application submitted by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). According to Aminul Islam, Assistant Director of the ACC ...

Kidney patients in Manikganj are bearing the brunt of badly needed dialysis service at the Manikganj 250-bed General Hospital as four, out of five, dialysis machines are now out of order, thanks to reluctance of the authorities concerned. Patients now have to pay nearly three times higher charges at private hospitals compared to government facilities for the same services. In ...

A moderate earthquake of 5.6-magnitude was felt in Sylhet and parts of the country, including the capital, at 11:36 am on Wednesday (March 5). Shah Md Sajib Hossain, meteorologist at Sylhet weather office said the tremor was originated near the India-Myanmar border area. The epicenter of the earthquake was 449 kilometers away from the capital Dhaka. However, no causalities were ...

Chowdhury Rafiqul Abrar took oath as a new adviser to the interim government on Wednesday morning. He will take charge of the education ministry. The oath-taking ceremony was held 11AM at the Bangabhaban. President Mohammed Shahabuddin administered the oath. Chowdhury Rafiqul Abrar, also known as CR Abrar, is a former professor of the University of Dhaka’s International Relations Department and ...

Former prime minister Sheikh Hasina will stand trial for crimes against humanity, said Prof Muhammad Yunus to Sky News during an interview. Hasina is accused of overseeing a system of enforced disappearances during her time in government, as well as the mass killing of protesters in July and August last year. Prof Yunus said: “A trial will be taking place. ...