News Category: Bangladesh


  • Delhi denies permission for seminar featuring speakers linked to Awami League

    Permission was denied for an international seminar in Delhi because it was due to feature speakers linked to the Awami League. The Delhi Police refused to grant clearance, telling the organisers that the event could not be permitted because of “certa…

  • Dhaka, Beijing ready to launch diplomacy and defence dialogue

    Bangladesh and China have discussed a range of issues of mutual interest to advance bilateral cooperation. These included cooperation on the Teesta River Comprehensive Management and Restoration Project, an early launch of a strategic dialogue at the…

  • There would be no more ‘Aynaghar’ in Bangladesh: President

    President Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said all criminals involved in enforced disappearances should be brought to justice, no matter how powerful they are.“There would be no more ‘Aynaghar’ in independent Bangladesh and every criminal involved in…

  • March from Banglamotor toward parliament, Jamaat alliance leaders join

    On the occasion of the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, a march was held toward the National Parliament, organised by the National Committee on Resistance Against Enforced Disappearances. Top-level leaders of the 11-party …

  • Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed recounts his 61 days in enforced disappearance

    “I even feared that I would die in a foreign land in a state of madness, and my family might not even be able to see my grave.” Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed became emotional while recounting his harrowing memories of the 61 days he spent in enforce…

  • Labour migration to Malaysia to resume in Sept, 10000 to go free of charge

    State Minister for Local Government Mir Shahe Alam has said that Malaysia will start recruiting 200,000 workers from Bangladesh towards the end of next month. They will be sent to Malaysia through listed companies. In addition, another 10,000 workers…

  • filps appoints Abul Kashem Md Shirin as advisor for  Bangladesh

    filps Limited, the DIFC and ADGM regulated fintech and digital banking  infrastructure company, announced the appointment of Abul Kashem Md Shirin, former managing director and CEO of Dutch-Bangla Bank PLC and current Independent Director on the…

  • TOP SHOTS (30 August 2026)

    TOP SHOTS (30 August 2026)

    Morning raindrops glisten on the delicate petals of a periwinkle (noyontara) flower. Swargapur Ban Bhabna Kendra, Rangamati, 30 August 2026. A pair of doves forage quietly along the sandy banks of the Banar River. Gosingga, Sreepur, Gazipur, 30 Augus…

  • Major curriculum overhaul planned for 2028 academic session: Mahdi Amin

    Prime Minister’s Education and Primary and Mass Education Adviser and spokesperson of his office Mahdi Amin has said the government has taken initiatives to rearrange the country’s education sector, combining merit, morality and human values, and ens…

  • Headteacher’s death in Dhaka mugging: Two arrested, including ‘Para Ponir’

    The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has said it arrested two people, including the prime suspect, in connection with the death of headteacher Ranjila Parveen, 56, who fell from an auto-rickshaw after a mugger pulled at her bag in front of the South Plaz…