Staff Reporter : Badrul Hasan, a prominent leader of the anti-discrimination student movement in Khulna, has been missing for the...
Day: September 8, 2024
Abu Jakir : The interim government, led by Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus, has completed its first month in office...
Staff Reporter : After the fall of its long-time political rival, the Awami League-led government, the BNP has initiated discussions with its political partners to formulate new strategies for the evolving political landscape. On Friday, the BNP began its scheduled talks with its allied political parties. The first day of discussions was held at the BNP Chairperson’s Gulshan Office, where the party met separately with Gonoforum, Bangladesh People’s Party, and NAP Bhashani. BNP Standing Committee Member Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury...
Reuters : Pakistan is renegotiating contracts with independent power producers to rein in “unsustainable” electricity tariffs, the head of the power ministry said, as households and businesses buckle under soaring energy costs. Rising power tariffs have stirred social unrest and shuttered industries in the $350 billion economy, which has contracted twice in recent years as inflation hit record highs. “The existing price structure of power in this country is not sustainable,” Awais Leghari, a federal minister heading Pakistan’s Power Division,...
Staff Reporter : The government is intensifying efforts to apprehend key figures behind financial corruption, including money launderers, Finance and...
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Online Desk : Director and scriptwriter Habib Shakil received the Sher-e-Bangla AK Fazlul Haq Gold Medal at a ceremony hosted...
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Staff Reporter : Expressing concern over Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s remarks, senior joint secretary general of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Adv. Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said that the neighboring country should respect Bangladesh’s independence and sovereignty. Talking to reporters after placing a wreath at BNP founder Ziaur Rahman’s grave on Saturday, he reminded India that people of Bangladesh never accept it if India, adopting a one-sided approach, maintains contact only with Sheikh Hasina and her party. “What the Indian Defence...
Staff Reporter : The first batch of 14 Bangladeshi migrant workers, out of 57 who were jailed in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for staging a demonstration in support of the student movement in Bangladesh, returned home on Saturday night after being released. According to the Chief Adviser’s Office, the workers were expected to arrive at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka and Shah Amanat International Airport in Chittagong between 7:00 pm and 10:00 pm on Saturday. The UAE Federal...
BSS : Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus Saturday visited critically injured persons of the student-mass upsurge at the National Institute of Neurosciences and Hospital here as he enquired about their health. “He (Prof Yunus) saw the conditions of four students who were being treated in the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital,” its Director Kazi Deen Mohammad told the newsmen. He said the four students were hit by bullets in their heads as their conditions are now improving.The chief adviser...