Labour will try to force the government to publish a string of documents relating to its Rwanda policy. The party will table a vote on Tuesday demanding ministers disclose how much it would cost to send each asylum seeker to Rwanda. The vote also demands ministers reveal cash given and set to be given to the East African country. In ...

The oath-taking ceremony of the newly-elected members of parliament (MPs) will be held at the ground floor of Jatiya Sangsad building at 10am on Wednesday. The swearing-in ceremony will take place at the oath-taking room of the Parliament. Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury will administer the oaths. A gazette notification of new MPs would be published today (Tuesday), said chief whip ...

The United Kingdom has noted that the Bangladeshi people did not have the fullest range of voting options in Sunday’s national elections in Bangladesh. The UK noted that not all political parties took part in the elections, according a statement issued by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office on Monday. The UK condemned the acts of intimidation and violence that ...

Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe has said the electoral triumph achieved by the Bangladesh Awami League is a testament to the trust and confidence bestowed by the people of Bangladesh in Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s capable leadership. President Wickremesinghe expressed confidence that her wisdom and wealth of experience will continue to benefit the people of Bangladesh. On behalf of the ...

Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina along with her family members on Tuesday paid glowing tribute to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman after her party’s absolute victory in the 12th parliamentary election. She paid the homage by placing wreath at the portrait of Bangabandhu inside the Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi in the city, reports ...

The United States shared the view with other observers that Sunday’s elections in Bangladesh “were not free or fair” and they regret that not all parties participated, the US State Department said. The United States remains concerned by the arrests of political opposition members and by reports of irregularities on elections day, said US State Department spokesperson Mathew Miller in ...

Wales and British and Irish Lions rugby legend JPR Williams has died at the age of 74. The former London Welsh, Bridgend and Barbarians full-back was synonymous with Wales and the Lions’ glories of the 1970s. Williams captained Wales and Bridgend, winning 55 caps for his country. During historic triumphant Lions tours to New Zealand in 1971 and 1974 in ...

Technology giant Samsung Electronics says it is likely to see its profits for the last three months of 2023 fall by more than a third. The decline is much worse than analysts expected and comes as global demand for consumer electronics remains weak. South Korea-based Samsung is the world’s largest maker of memory chips, smartphones and televisions. The company is ...

Scores of patients quietly fill a modest tin shed which serves as a waiting area at a cancer hospital in Silchar, in north-eastern India. Over the last few months, Cachar Cancer Centre in the state of Assam has seen an unusually high number of patients from nearby towns and villages. The reason: a quiet revolution that is making cancer drugs ...

A day after being elected as the Member of Parliament for the first time, Shakib Al Hasan turned up at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket in Mirpur of the capital on Monday as he gears up for the upcoming Bangladesh Premier League (BPL), starting on January 19. Shakib, still an all format captain of Bangladesh, earned a landslide victory in Magura-1 constituency ...