News and updates from Bangladesh
Bangla Press Desk: Launch fares have been increased by 23 poisha per kilometer for the first 100 kilometers. Additionally, fares for distances exceeding 100 kilometers have been raised by 20 poisha.Th...
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...
Staff Reporter: The government will never change with the intervention of foreigners, only the people of the country can change the government, said the visiting foreign minister Dr. AK Abdul Momen. The foreign minister was speaking to reporters...
Staff Reporter: The President of the General Assembly (PGA), Abdulla Shahid applauded Bangladesh’s remarkable leadership, productive engagement and significant contribution in recent time in various aspects of the United Nations. The PGA was talk...
Staff Reporter: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres hopes that Bangladesh will continue to provide more peacekeepers to meet future demands for peacekeeping operations at the United Nations. Last Tuesday (March 1) afternoon, the Foreign Ministe...
Staff Reporter: Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dr. A K Abdul Momen, MP, reiterated the government's desire to work closely with the United States to find a way to withdrawal the US sanctions on the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and its officers. He a...
Staff Reporter : The 76th session of the UN General Assembly will focus on six issues, including the elimination of global 'vaccine inequality'. The general debate will continue from September 21 to September 28 in the session which started on Se...
Special Correspondent from New York: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has stressed the need for a global roadmap to ensure permanent recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGSs) by 2030. "We need to cha...
Staff Reporter: In her address to the 76th Session of the UN General Assembly, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina called for appropriate global action to build a world free of covid, with universal and affordable vaccines. She warned that the current "...
Staff Reporter : Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina planted tree saplings at the UN headquarters on the occasion of Mujib Year. Prime Minister planted the sapling on Monday (September 20). During this time he also dedicated a bench in the garden. He wa...
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