State Minister for Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Mir Shahe Alam on Friday said there is no fuel crisis in the country, while the fuel import and supply system is normal. “The government has taken a plan for the next three months. In addition, some new steps have been taken to save energy, which includes closing the market by ...

Chief Whip of the Jatiya Sangsad Nurul Islam Moni has said that no negative or opportunistic politics over the July Charter will be tolerated, stressing that the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) fully supports the charter and is committed to implementing it in full. He made the remarks on Friday while speaking at a discussion meeting organised by a cultural group ...

Fuel oil supplies at Chattogram Port have increased as part of efforts to ensure the country’s energy security. A Hong Kong-flagged vessel, Yan Jing He, carrying 27,000 tonnes of diesel from Singapore, reached the outer anchorage of the port early on Friday (3 April). Port authorities said another vessel carrying 34,000 tonnes of diesel from Malaysia is expected to anchor ...

Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing won a parliamentary vote on Friday to become the country’s president, formalising his grip on political power in the war-torn nation five years after he ousted an elected government. The 69-year-old general orchestrated a 2021 coup against the administration of Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi and placed her under arrest, sparking ...

Foreign aid disbursement to Bangladesh declined significantly during the July–February period of the current fiscal year (2025–26), while pressure from external debt repayments increased, putting strain on the country’s macroeconomic stability. Officials concerned said that while the inflow of assistance is decreasing, the burden of existing foreign debt is rising—an alarming trend for the national economy. According to the latest ...

Health Minister Sardar Md Sakhawat Hussain on Thursday inaugurated a new outpatient treatment unit at Bangladesh Shishu Hospital & Institute constructed by country’s leading manufacturer and exporter of medicine Beximco Pharmaceuticals PLC. A brief ceremony was held on the hospital premises on this occasion, which was attended by the director general of health services Professor Dr Pravath Chandra Biswas, chairman ...

NASA gave the four Artemis astronauts circling Earth the green light on Thursday to head for the Moon and carry out the first crewed lunar flyby in more than 50 years. NASA Flight Director Jeff Radigan told the astronauts the mission management team had approved firing up the engine of their Orion capsule to send the spacecraft on a trajectory ...

Bangladesh and the Philippines signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Cooperation in Nursing Education and Capacity Building in Manila on 1 April. On behalf of Bangladesh, Mohammad Sarwar Mahmood, the ambassador of Bangladesh to the Philippines, and on behalf of the Philippines, Prof Shirley C Agrupis, chairperson of Commission on Higher Education signed the MoU, according to the Embassy ...

The Embassy of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh in The Hague hosted a reception on 31 March at The Hague Marriott Hotel to celebrate the 55th anniversary of Independence and National Day of Bangladesh. The event was attended by members of the diplomatic corps, representatives of international organisations, government officials, members of the business community, academics, researchers, media, and NGO ...

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has been invited to attend the 28th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), scheduled to take place in St John’s, Antigua and Barbuda, from 1 to 4 November 2026. Karen-Mae Hill, high commissioner of Antigua and Barbuda to the United Kingdom, handed over the invitation letter on Thursday when she paid a courtesy visit to the ...