News and updates from Bangladesh
Bangla Press Desk: The interim government has appointed political scientist Prof Ali Riaz as a special assistant to the Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus.The Cabinet Division issued a noti...
Noman Ibne Sabit: Adviser to the Prime Minister for Power, Energy & Mineral Resources Affairs, Dr. Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury, BB, today (18 August) urged the US government for more investment through its International Development Finance Corpo...
Noman Sabit: As a proud member of the UN Police since 1989, we reiterate our commitment to contribute to any UNPOL initiative for the promotion of sustainable peace and development, said Asaduzzaman Khan, MP, Home Minister of Bangladesh. The Mini...
Noman Sabit: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will leave London for New York after attending the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in London on September 19. She will arrive at New York's JFK Airport in the afternoon on the same day to at...
Chhabed Sathee, from UN Headquarter: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina mentioned that half of the workers in all sectors should be women by 2030. General Assembly President Kasaba Korosi said this while addressing a high-level meeting of the UNGA Plat...
Noman Sabit, from New York: Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen on Tuesday termed Myanmar’s recent mortar shelling inside Bangladesh 'unintentional mistake'. He said this while addressing a press conference — on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s itiner...
Chhabed Sathee, from UN Headquarter: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said, during my prime ministership in the last 18 years, we have arranged accommodation for 35 lakh homeless people in more than 5 lakh houses. Apart from this, construction of an...
Chhabed Sathee, from UN Headquarter: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has proposed a six-point proposal to the United Nations to end the Russia-Ukraine war. Today she stressed the need for strong political commitment and global solidarity in findin...
Noman Sabit: Sheikh Hasina said that the Rohingyas have been living since the 8th Century in Arakan which is now the Rakhine State of Myanmar. In 1948, when Myanmar became independent, she said, the new government passed the Union Citizenship Ac...
Staff Reporter: Nusrat Jahan Chowdhury, the first Muslim-American woman of Bangladeshi descent, has been nominated by President Joe Biden as a judge in a federal district court in New York. The US Senate has confirmed that Nusrat Jahan, a 44-year...
Staff Reporter: Human rights organisations documenting abuses committed by the Bangladesh’s Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have requested the United Nations to ban the unit’s members from its peace operations. The participation of Bangladesh's par...
Chhabed Sathee: Ambassador Rabab Fatima, Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations, has been unanimously elected President of the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission (PBC). Ambassador Fatima was elected the first woman pres...
Staff Reporter: New US Ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Haas will work to strengthen Dhaka-Washington relations. He made the remarks while exchanging views with officials of the Bangladesh Embassy in Washington DC on Saturday (February 12) local ti...
