Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) returned fire after India’s Border Security Force (BSF) fired shots in the Sonarhat border area of Sylhet’s Gowainghat upazila yesterday afternoon, the BGB said. However, no casualties were reported. Lieutenant Colonel Md Nazmul Haque, commanding officer of the Sylhet Battalion (48 BGB), in a press release, said today that BSF opened fire in the Sonarhat border ...

UNICEF has said Bangladesh experienced a prolonged shortage of routine measles vaccines last year despite repeated warnings to the government. According to the UN agency, delays in vaccine supply aggravated the situation even though it had issued at least 10 alerts to the government since 2024. The information was shared at a press conference held at the UNICEF Bangladesh JPG ...

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman on Wednesday laid the foundation stone of the National Disaster Management Research and Training Institute (NDMRTI) building in the Sataish Chourasta area of Dharpara in the city. The premier laid the foundation stone around 2pm. Disaster Management and Relief Minister Asadul Habib Dulu, State Minister M Iqbal Hossain, Secretary Md Saidur Rahman Khan and other senior ...

A Dhaka court on Wednesday sentenced Bidisha Ershad, former wife of late president Hussain Muhammad Ershad, to two years of rigorous imprisonment in a fraud case over the sale of a residential flat. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Jamshed Alam delivered the verdict and also fined her Tk10,000. The court said she would have to serve an additional month in jail if ...

The United Nations and its humanitarian partners have appealed for $710.5 million in international assistance to meet the urgent needs of Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar camps and Bhasan Char, alongside support for Bangladeshi host communities affected by the prolonged crisis. The appeal, launched in coordination with the Bangladesh government, comes as growing global instability and mounting humanitarian pressures force ...

Opposition leader in parliament and Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Dr Shafiqur Rahman has expressed strong concern over what he described as the “demise” of an independent judicial secretariat, questioning the government’s commitment to judicial independence. In a post published on his verified Facebook page on Wednesday (20 May), Dr Rahman criticised what he alleged to be growing political influence over the ...

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman on Wednesday called upon the members of Bangladesh Ansar and Village Defence Party (VDP) to perform their duties with utmost discipline and strictly following the chain of command. “In any country, adherence to the ‘chain of command’ and ‘discipline’ is an essential and mandatory principle for every disciplined force. If there is even the slightest negligence ...

Prime Minister’s Advisor on Education and Primary and Mass Education, Mahdi Amin held a meeting with UK Minister of State for Border Security and Asylum Alex Norris MP at the British Home Office on Tuesday (19 May). Bangladesh’s Acting High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Dr M Nazrul Islam, and British Deputy High Commissioner in Dhaka James Goldman were also ...

Bangladesh completed a historic series whitewash over Pakistan for the second consecutive time, joining Australia as the only team to achieve the feat in back-to-back series, after Taijul Islam claimed six wickets to seal a 78-run victory on the final day of the second and final Test at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium on Wednesday. Taijul, who claimed his 18th ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping hailed the “unyielding relationship” between China and Russia as he began talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Beijing on Wednesday, state media reported. “We have been able to continuously deepen our political mutual trust and strategic coordination with a resilience that remains unyielding despite trials and tribulations,” Xi told Putin, according to Xinhua news ...