Day: February 24, 2023

Shima Rani, a worker of a shrimp enclosure at the coastal village Sardar Para of Assasuni upazila in Satkhira district, used to walk two miles to fetch potable drinking water from a deep tube well even when she was carrying a baby.'It was my daily rout...

Former Indian cricket team captain and ex-president of BCCI, Sourav Ganguly, and his wife Dona Ganguly met the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her official residence Ganabhaban.PM's Speechwriter Md Nazrul Islam told reporters after the meeting.Presiden...

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has said prolonged presence of 1.2 million displaced Rohingya population in Bangladesh is "not tenable" in any consideration.The Foreign Minister referred to the negative impacts of impasse in repatriation of the disp...

US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will travel to New Delhi, India on March 1 to participate in the G20 Foreign Ministers' Meeting.The meeting will focus on strengthening multilateralism and deepening cooperation on food and energy security, susta...

BNP senior leader Nazrul Islam Khan on alleged that the government is making a joke about the constitution."What have you (govt) started? You talk about the constitution. You're actually making a joke about the constitution. It's written in the consti...

The 14th anniversary of the atrocious carnage at the Pilkhana BDR (now BGB) headquarters in the capital will be observed on Saturday.A total of 74 people, including 57 army officers, were killed in the carnage beginning on this day in 2009.Bangladesh p...

The "amazing successes" of Bangladesh were celebrated in the British Parliament at the launch of a report by UK- based Bangladesh think-tank, the Study Circle.The report, entitled, "Bangladesh: The Journey of Indomitable Development", highlights the va...

A British woman whose U.K. citizenship was revoked after she traveled to Syria as a teenager to join the Islamic State group has lost an appeal in her fight to have her citizenship restored.Shamima Begum, now 23, was 15 when she and two other girls fro...