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 ...

Expatriate Bangladeshis sent $736.61 million remittances during the first eleven days of January in the 2024-25 fiscal year, reports BSS. Of this, remittances through state-owned and specialised banks accounted for $226.78 million, while private banks received $507.33million, according to Bangladesh Bank (BB) data released on Sunday.

The rate of infections with the flu-like human metapneumovirus (HMPV) in northern China is declining, a health official said Sunday, amid some international concern over a potential pandemic. HMPV, which belongs to the same family as the respiratory syncytial virus, causes flu or cold-like symptoms including fever, cough and nasal congestion. The symptoms often clear up by themselves, though they ...

A Dhaka on Sunday ordered the authorities concerned to attach 45 immovable properties, including plots and flats, of former Sirajganj-2 lawmaker Jannat Ara Henry and seize her 16 vehicles and more than Tk 58 crore kept in her different bank accounts, over graft allegations. Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Zakir Hossain Galib passed the order, allowing a plea of the ...