Bangladesh

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today in parliament expressed gratitude to her party members and people of the country for their unwavering support, ignoring the 1/11 army-backed caretaker government’s threat and barriers she faced while returning home from abroad. “I was arrested repeatedly. There were many obstacles like direct gunshots. Today I am able to serve…

Opposition Chief Whip Mujibul Haque Chunnu yesterday in parliament criticised independent MP Syed Sayedul Haque Sumon for his recent Facebook post on MPs’ salaries and allocation of funds. Without mentioning Sumon’s name, the JP MP said, “We are all victims of what he said on his Facebook post.” He said this while participating in an…

The number of candidates in the first phase of upazila election with moveable or liquid assets of at least Tk 1 crore each has more than doubled in five years, found Transparency International Bangladesh in a recent report. TIB revealed the numbers while releasing a report analysing the affidavits submitted to the Election Commission by…

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today asked public representatives to work to fulfil people’s expectations as she administered the oath to newly elected Lalmonirhat Zilla Parishad Chairman Abu Bakar Siddique Shyamol. “Keep in mind the needs of the people and work to fulfil their expectations accordingly,” the Prime Minister’s Deputy Press Secretary KM Shakhawat Moon quoted…

Hundreds of trees were either broken or uprooted and electric poles damaged in Kapasia upazila of Gazipur as nor’westers lashed the district and many other parts of the country last night. Residents of Kapasia, except in the upazila headquarters, have been experiencing power cuts as many as eight electricity poles were broken and a transformer…

A total of 15 people died across the country due to heatstroke in the last 15 days, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). Three of them died in the 24 hours till 11:00am today, said the Health Emergency Operation Center and Control Room of the DGHS. Thirteen of the deceased were male…

4.38 lakh out of 4.53 lakh hectares have already been harvested Farmers have completed harvesting 97 percent paddy of haor areas in Sylhet, Moulvibazar, Habiganj, Sunamganj, Kishoreganj, Netrokona and Brahmanbaria. In the seven districts, farmers cultivated boro in 4.53 lakh hectares this year, of which 4.38 lakh hectares have already been harvested. The government has…

Three people including two cleaning workers of Gazipur City Corporation were injured when a bus hit the city corporation’s garbage truck from backside on the Konabari flyover in the city today. The accident took place around 1:00pm when cleaning workers Majnu Mia and Swapan Mia were engaged in cleaning the garbage of the truck. Yamin,…

At least 128 members of Myanmar’s Border Guard Police (BGP) took refuge in Bangladesh through the Naf river near Shahporir Dwip in Teknaf of Cox’s Bazar today and yesterday amid the ongoing conflict between the junta forces and rebel Arakan Army. Of them, BGB troops came into Bangladesh through Kanchan jetty under Sabrang union around…

After a month-long severe heatwave, Dhaka experienced rain and thundershowers in parts of the capital last night. There were reports of rain in Mirpur, Karwan Bazar, Kamalapur, Uttara, Agargaon, Gulshan, Banani, Niketan, Khilgaon, and Nakhalpara, among other areas, Monowar Hossain, a meteorologist at the Bangladesh Meteorological Department, told The Daily Star. According to the BMD,…