BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia has left Dhaka for London to seek advanced medical treatment. She departed from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka at 11:10 PM on Tuesday. Prior to that, Khaleda Zia’s motorcade set off from her Gulshan residence, ‘Firoza,’ towards the airport around 8:12 PM and arrived at 10:45 PM on Tuesday (January 7). At that time, ...

The Bangladesh government has cancelled international passports of 75 individuals including deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina on charge of their involvement in July-August genocide. It was disclosed by Chief Adviser’s deputy press secretary Azad Mazumder while addressing a press briefing at Foreign Service Academy in the capital on Tuesday (January 7) evening. Besides, the passports of 22 more individuals have ...

A court in Dhaka on Tuesday (January 7) ordered to freeze two bank accounts of former state minister for Housing and Public Works Sharif Ahmed. There are about 3.5 crores of taka lying in these two accounts. Responding to a prayer of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Md Zakir Hossain on Tuesday (January 7) ordered to ...

A clash erupted between students from Prime Asia University and police at the main gate of the Secretariat on Tuesday. The incident took place around 2.30 PM when the students were protesting for various demands including the removal of Board of Trustees (BOT) and assurance of a permanent campus. Earlier, a four-member delegation from the university had entered the Secretariat ...

Home Affairs Adviser Lt Gen (Retd) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury has said 100 individuals injured during the July Uprising will be recruited to different units of police force at first. “This process will be further expanded in phases.” Adviser Jahangir Alam disclosed this to media after visiting the Special Branch (SB) and the CID headquarters. “This initiative aims to help ...

After a long seven years’ of waiting, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and her eldest son, the party’s acting chairman Tarique Rahman, are meeting. Tarique Rahman is waiting for his mother in London. They are meeting after a long seven years. In the middle, Khaleda Zia’s younger son and Tarique Rahman’s younger brother Arafat Rahman Koko tragically died. Koko died of ...

Cultivation of winter vegetables has increased extensively in Sylhet division due to their high prices in the markets. As many as 77,375 hectares of land have been brought into vegetable farming this winter in Sylhet division, according to sources at the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE). Of the total, highest 35,532 hectares have been brought into vegetable cultivation in Sylhet ...

Treasury Minister Tulip Siddiq has referred herself to the PM’s standards adviser after controversy over her links to her aunt’s political movement in Bangladesh. It comes after the minister was named last month in an investigation into claims her family embezzled infrastructure funding in the country. Siddiq had faced growing calls for an investigation after reports in recent days she ...

Shoppers spent more in December compared with the year before but it wasn’t enough to make up for an overall lacklustre year for retailers, new figures suggest. Doing particularly well over Christmas were gifts including beauty advent calendars, jewellery and AI-enabled tech, the British Retail Consortium (BRC) said. December’s growth of 3.2% was boosted by a big weekend of Black ...

Masterchef India semifinalist Kriti Dhiman, who consumes ghee water — a teaspoon of ghee in a cup of warm water — on an empty stomach every morning, claims to have noticed the following changes: *My skin has been better than ever. It’s clearer, brighter, and feels hydrated. Ghee is enriched with essential fatty acids and antioxidants. So, it helps in ...