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...
Parbatipur Correspondent: Abul Hossain, the veteran newspaper vendor of Parbatipur, Dinajpur, is no more. He died on Tuesday (April 16) at around 10 am at his home in Islampur, a municipal town. He was 86 years old at the time of his de...
Noman Sabit: The US Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration, Ambassador Julieta Valls Noyes, has said rebuilding the country after the 1971 war, and now forging the path toward economic growth, inclusion...
Noman Sabit: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken expressed optimism that the upcoming parliamentary elections in Bangladesh will be held in a free and fair manner. Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dr. held at the US State Department in Washington at...
Noman Sabit: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina arrived in Washington DC on Friday (April 28) afternoon to attend a ceremony organized on the occasion of 50 years of partnership between Bangladesh and the World Bank at the headquarters of the World Ban...
Minara Helen: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said Bangladesh has taken a loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as a "breathing space" while the global lender assured of continuing to provide such support in future. "We have t...
Noman Sabit: The United Nations has unanimously adopted the first-ever resolution on community-based health care. The historic resolution, entitled, “Community-based primary health care: a participatory and inclusive approach to universal health...
Noman Sabit: The news of Awami League leader Abul Kashem's arrest at Dhaka airport has started a stir in New York. Abul Kashem, the chairman of the proposed People's Bank and one of the vice-presidents of the Awami League, was trying to escape to...
Staff Reporter: Congressman Joe Wilson, the Co-Chair of Bangladesh Caucus at the US Congress, has praised Bangladesh’s tremendous economic progress and said that the United States is looking forward to expanding trade ties and creating job oppor...
Staff Reporter: Popular representative of Dinajpur district and Parbatipur upazila chairman Md. Hafizul Islam Pramanik returned home after a 20-day visit to the United States. He feels lucky to have received a visa to travel to the US a few h...
Staff Reporter: Two separate seminars were held at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, with the aim of ensuring the safety of all Muslim women in the Middle East establishing...
Staff Reporter: While the 2017 crisis still remains unresolved, Rohingya Muslimsin Rakhine are faced with renewed risks,as the armed conflict between Myanmar military and Arakan Army resumes” said Ambassador Muhammad A. Muhith, Ambassador and Per...
Chhabed Sathee, from UN Headquarter: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in her address to the United Nations General Assembly said that socio-economic development is not possible without ensuring peace and stability. Hostile approaches like war or econo...
