1. Home
  2. Bangladesh

Category: Bangladesh

Bangladesh
Border guards ready to tackle any situation on frontiers

Border guards ready to tackle any situation on frontiers

Dhaka - The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) is completely ready to tackle any untoward situation at frontiers, state-run Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha news agency said on Tuesday. "BGB is fully prepared and alert to prevent any

Bangladesh
Bangladesh summons Indian envoy over attack on Agartala consulate

Bangladesh summons Indian envoy over attack on Agartala consulate

Dhaka – Indian High Commissioner Pranay Kumar Verma appeared at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Dhaka on Tuesday in response to a summon over the recent attack on the Bangladesh consulate in Agartala. Verma

Bangladesh
Bangladesh condemns attack at its consulate in India

Bangladesh condemns attack at its consulate in India

Dhaka – Bangladesh on Monday condemned an attack at one of its diplomatic missions in neighbouring India allegedly by a radical Hindu group. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement said a large group

Bangladesh
UN agrees for special conference on Rohingya crisis

UN agrees for special conference on Rohingya crisis

Dhaka – The visiting prosecutor of International Criminal Court, Karim A Khan, has backed a Bangladeshi proposal moved by Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus for convening a special global conference for resolving Rohingya crisis sometime in

Bangladesh
Students urged to remain calm

Students urged to remain calm

Dhaka – After a series of violent clashes in educational institutions over the past weeks, the government has asked the students to remain calm and not to get involve into any clash or violence. “Strict

Bangladesh
BNP Calls for Election Roadmap to Restore Public Confidence

BNP Calls for Election Roadmap to Restore Public Confidence

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has called on the interim administration  to announce an election roadmap to restore trust among the public. “Announcing elections will rebuild public confidence," he said.

Bangladesh
Dengue death toll rises to 421

Dengue death toll rises to 421

Dhaka – The death toll from the dengue outbreak in Bangladesh rose to 421 with six more people died in the last 24 hours ended on Monday morning, officials said. The government’s Directorate General of

Bangladesh
Army chief visits Cox’s Bazar

Army chief visits Cox’s Bazar

Dhaka - General Waker-Uz-Zaman, the chief of Army Staff, has laid the foundation stone of two residential building in the south-eastern Ramu cantonment in Cox’s Bazar district to resolve the accommodation problem of the junior

Bangladesh
Austria supports Bangladesh’s sweeping reforms agenda

Austria supports Bangladesh’s sweeping reforms agenda

Dhaka – An Austrian diplomat has assured the western European nation’s support to Bangladesh’s sweeping reforms agenda took up by the interim administration headed by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus. Katharina Wieser, the non-resident ambassador of

Bangladesh
CPJ urges Bangladesh’s interim government to protect press freedom

CPJ urges Bangladesh’s interim government to protect press freedom

Dhaka – International media freedom advocacy group Committee to Protect Journalist has urged Bangladesh’s interim administration to protect press freedom as dozens of journalists, as the group says, perceived to be supporter of ousted former