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 ...

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed a case against 16 individuals, including deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and five of her family members, on charges of corruption in receiving allocation of 60-katha plots at the Purbachal New Town Project of Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk). ACC Director General Md Akhtar Hossain confirmed the matter on Sunday (January 12) saying that apart ...

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Sunday asked Norway to make Bangladesh a regional distribution hub of their products and invest more in the country to take the benefits of Bangladesh’s youth force. “Use Bangladesh as a base for distributing Norwegian products in Asia so that you don’t need to bring your people from Norway and can use our young ...

Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store has expressed his strong support for the Bangladesh interim government’s efforts to initiate “much-needed” reforms and conduct free and fair democratic elections. “I have followed developments in Bangladesh over the past year closely, and I am writing to express my strong support for your efforts to initiate much-needed reforms and conduct free and fair ...