Bangladesh

Staff Correspondent: To control environmental pollution caused by single-use plastic items, the Cabinet Division has instructed all government offices to use alternative products.This directive was issued on Thursday following a request from the Adviser to the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change, said a media release signed by Dipankar…

Staff Correspondent: British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Sarah Cooke met BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia and enquired of her health condition on Wednesday night. The meeting was held at BNP Chairperson’s residence, Firoza, in the city’s Gulshan area at 8:30pm, said BNP Media Cell member Sayrul Kabir Khan. It was…

Staff Correspondent: A Bangladesh Chhatra League leader who died of cancer in Jamalpur two years ago has been named in a case filed after the fall of Awami League government. The complaint was filed on Tuesday by Haider Ali, a resident of Fulbari Dhoripara in Jamalpur town, at the Jamalpur…

Special Correspondent: Awami League President and former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled Bangladesh on August 5 amidst a mass student and public movement, leaving behind defaulted loans totaling around Tk 2 lakh crores.Sources reveal that as of the end of June this year, the defaulted loans in the country’s banking…

Staff Correspondent: A Dhaka court yesterday asked Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to submit the probe report in the Bangladesh Bank cyber heist case by October 28.Metropolitan Magistrate Mosharraf Hossain passed the order after Raihan Uddin Khan, additional superintendent of police and also investigation officer of the case, failed to submit…

Staff Correspondent: The Anti-Discrimination Student Movement has announced a ‘March Remembering Martyrs’ programme for Thursday (September 5) on the occasion of completion of one month into the Hasina government’s fall and one month of the independence.Coordinator Sarjis Alam announced the programme at a press conference held at TSC Auditorium of…

Staff Correspondent: A court in Dhaka on Wednesday morning placed former inspectors general of police (IGPs) Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun on a seven-day remand while AKM Shahidul Haque on an eight-day remand in two separate murder cases.Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Akteruzzaman placed them on remand at about 7:30am.Mamun was remanded in…

UNB: Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) and four UK-based anti-corruption organisations have called for the immediate freezing of illegal assets held by Bangladeshis in several countries including the US, the UK and EU nations.This call, made in a letter to the UK secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs,…

Staff Correspondent: Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) and four UK-based anti-corruption organizations have called for the immediate freezing of illegal assets held by Bangladeshis in several countries including the US, the UK and EU nations. This call, made in a letter to the UK Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and…

Staff Correspondent: In response to ongoing worker unrest in Ashulia and other parts of the country, which officials believe is largely driven by outsiders, the government has announced plans to take a firm stance to protect the nation’s economy and its workers. Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives Adviser AF…