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Dhaka – United States Pacific Fleet Commander Admiral Stephen T. Koehler praised Bangladesh’s contribution to global peacekeeping during a meeting with Prime Minister Tarique Rahman on Tuesday. Admiral Koehler, who arrived in Dhaka on Tuesday for a three-day visit, paid a courtesy call on the premier at the Bangladesh Secretariat. Humanitarian assistance, disaster management, bilateral naval […]
Dhaka – Former Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 40 others have been charged with murder and crimes against humanity over the deaths during a crackdown on a rally of a radical Islamist group 13 years ago in Dhaka. The International Crimes Tribunal on Monday took the charges into cognizance and issued arrest warrants against […]
Dhaka– Bangladesh’s President Mohammed Shahabuddin tendered his resignation on Friday, nearly two years ahead of the expiry of his tenure. Sarwar Alam, the president’s press secretary, said he submitted his resignation to Parliamentary Speaker Hafiz Uddin Ahmad in the afternoon. The president cited ill health as the reason for his resignation, he said. Ahmad will […]
Dhaka – Bangladeshi Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has requested foreign investors to expand their ventures to help his efforts to turn the South Asian country into a trillion-dollar economy within the next eight years, in line with his economic policy. The Prime Minister, while addressing the FDI Conference organized by the Foreign Investors’ Chamber of […]
Dhaka – Bangladesh has been contemplating the privatization of its electricity distribution system at the consumer level to improve accountability, enhance service quality, and refine the billing mechanism. Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Iqbal Hasan Mahmood made the disclosure on Wednesday at a discussion titled “Energy Security and Transformation of Bangladesh” in Dhaka. The […]
International Desk – Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has met with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in the Philippines capital Manila, apparently to discuss the ongoing conflict involving Russia and Ukraine. The two diplomats, however, did not make any public statement after the meeting, which took place on Thursday on the sidelines of the […]
Dhaka – Prime Minister Tarique Rahman on Thursday conferred the rank badge of Vice Admiral on newly appointed Chief of Naval Staff Rear Admiral Khondkar Misbah Ul Azim. The rank badge was formally conferred at a ceremony at the Prime Minister’s Armed Forces Division office in Dhaka Cantonment, according to the Prime Minister’s Press Wing. […]
Dhaka – Bangladesh has once again requested a three-year extension to the preparatory period in order to ensure a smooth, sustainable, and stable graduation from the Least Developed Country (LDC) category to developing nation status. Commerce Minister Khandaker Abdul Muktadir made the request during a meeting with senior officials of the United Nations Economic and […]
France is ready to build a long-term partnership with Bangladesh, describing the country as a rapidly growing economy with the potential to become "a pillar of stability" in the Indo-Pacific region.
Dhaka – The government has confiscated assets belonging to former prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s family and 10 other industrial groups, worth over 6.1 billion dollars (Tk 76,000 crore), following the regime change after the mass upsurge in 2024, a top official at the Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) said on Wednesday. The confiscated assets are […]
