Bangladesh

Staff Correspondent: BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday insisted that their party’s role in the recent mass movement against Sheikh Hasina’s fascist regime cannot be undermined, citing that 422 of the 875 martyrs in the July-August protests were affiliated with the BNP. “This movement did not emerge…

Staff Correspondent: Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Sunday sought support from the United States to rebuild the country, carry out vital reforms, and bring back stolen assets, stressing that it is a very important time for Bangladesh and a significant moment in its history. The 2006 Nobel Peace Prize…

Staff Correspondent: BNP standing committee member Selima Rahman on Friday claimed that those who are now extorting money in the name of BNP are infiltrators from Awami League. “Still there are various words (allegations) of extortion in the name of BNP.… We want to make it clear that these people…

Staff Correspondent: Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-3 have arrested Inspector Arafat Hossain in connection with the incident of setting fire to the bodies of protesters killed in front of the Ashulia Police Station on August 5. He was arrested from Dhaka’s Aftabnagar on Friday, confirmed ASP Imran Khan of…

Staff Correspondent: Remaining 26 Bangladeshi migrants who have been granted pardon by Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the president of the United Arab Emirates, returned home on Friday. An Indigo Air Lines flight carrying the Bangladeshi nationals landed at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka around 3:05pm, according…

Staff Correspondent: Six people of two families were killed in separate landslides triggered by relentless rain in Cox’s Bazar Sadar upazila and at a Rohingya camp in Ukhiya upazila early Friday. A woman and her two daughters died due to a landslide in the Jhilongja area of Cox’s Bazar Sadar…

Staff Correspondent: Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus could be an asset in leveraging his star power and connections to the donor community to get Western governments to consider hosting refugees, says an expert on South Asian affairs. “Yunus has an opportunity this month: He is expected to attend the annual…

Staff Correspondent: In view of the possibility of heavy rainfall in the country and upstream, the rivers in Chattogram division may swell rapidly in the next three days and submerge some low-lying areas of Chattogram, Cox’s Bazar, Bandarban, Khagrachhari, Feni, Cumilla, Noakhali, Laxmipur districts, said the report of Flood Forecasting…

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested three people, including former Awami League lawmaker ABM Fazle Karim Chowdhury, from Brahmanbaria’s Akhaura border early Thursday. The two others are Md Hannan Molla, former union parishad member of Nurpur area under Akhaura upazila and local Md Nayeem Chowdhury, also a suspected human trafficker. Md…

Staff Correspondent: A Dhaka court on Thursday placed former Dhaka district’s Additional Superintendent of Police Abdullahhil Kafi on a five-remand in a case over the killing of Military Institute student Shaikh Ashabul Yameen. Dhaka Senior Judicial Magistrate Md Julhas Uddin passed the order after hearing a remand petition. Earlier, Savar…