UK defence giant BAE Systems has set up a local entity in Ukraine and signed deals to help ramp up supplies of weapons and equipment to Kyiv. The firm says the move will allow it to work directly with Ukraine to explore potential partners and ultimately produce light artillery there. BAE has made much of the arms the UK and ...

Former U.S. President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty on Thursday to charges of attempting to overturn his 2020 presidential election defeat in the southeastern state of Georgia. “As evidenced by my signature below, I do hereby waive formal arraignment and enter my plea of NOT GUILTY to the Indictment in this case,” Trump said in a court filing in Fulton ...

Habiganj Correspondent : Two persons were killed and two others injured when a covered hit a CNG-powered auto-rickshaw at Chunarughat upazila in Habiganj district on Friday morning. The deceased were CNG driver Kashem Ali, a resident of Jajiuta village, and passenger Farid Mia, 50, of Madhavpur village of the upazila. According to police, a covered van from Shayestaganj ran over ...

Sri Lanka has paid back $100 million in second installment of loan taken from Bangladesh two years ago. Bangladesh lent $200 million from its foreign exchange reserves to Sri Lanka during its economic crisis in September 2021. The island nation paid back $50 million in the first installment of the loan repayment last month. Bangladesh Bank Spokesperson and Executive Director ...

Paris Saint-Germain on Thursday signed 20-year-old French striker Bradley Barcola for 45 million euros from struggling Ligue 1 rivals Lyon, the clubs announced. Barcola has penned a five-year deal and becomes the French champions’ 10th transfer window signing after Milan Skriniar, Marco Asensio, Goncalo Ramos, Lee Kang-in, Manuel Ugarte, Cher Ndour, Ousmane Dembele, Lucas Hernandez and Arnau Tenas, AFP reported. ...

Indian High Commissioner Pranay Verma on Thursday said New Delhi believed that Bangladesh’s developmental experience and growing capabilities stood to add value to discussions at G-20. He made remark while speaking an discussion titled “G20 Summit : Dhaka to New Delhi” organised by the Bangladesh foreign ministry at Foreign Service Academy in the capital to mark Dhaka’s participation at the ...

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen on Thursday said Bangladesh government is not harassing Nobel Laureate Professor Dr Yunus on any political or other reasons. “They (those who wrote letters) may think that he (Yunus) is being harassed due to political or other reasons. We hope they will know the facts. We will provide if they want to know,” he told ...

Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud met with the United Kingdom’s Minister of State for Media, Tourism and Creative Industries Sir John Whittingdale at his office in London on Wednesday. During the meeting, they discussed on increasing cooperation in media and prevention of rumors and misinformation through social media, said a release received in Dhaka on Thursday. Dr Hasan ...

The High Court has issued a ruling seeking an explanation as to why the Amar Bangladesh Party (AB Party) should not be registered as a political party. The court also asked the Election Commission (EC) why its decision not to register the AB Party should not be declared illegal. The HC bench of Justice KM Qamrul Qader and Justice Mohammad ...

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman never thought that Bangalis would kill him. “Even foreigners never thought that Bangalis can kill Bangabandhu. So, when we went abroad, we had to listen that we were the killer of our Father of the Nation,” he said at a discussion meeting as the chief guest. ...