News and updates from Bangladesh
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Bangla Press Desk: A court here today ordered authorities concerned to publish notices on newspapers, asking 262 people including ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to appear before it in a case file...
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...
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...
