Dhaka

July 19, 2024 5:50 PM

Three die in fresh Bangladesh student protests amid telecoms disruptions

Three people died in Bangladesh on Friday in fresh protests against quotas for government jobs, media said, as telecoms links were widely disrupted and television news channels went off the air. Authorities had cut some mobile telephone services the previous day to try to quell the unrest, initially sparked by student anger against controversial quotas, but Friday's wider disruption was not linked to a global cyber outage. The government offered no immediate comment on the severed communicatio...

July 1, 2024 9:00 PM

Indian Navy Chief held bilateral discussions with his Bangladeshi counterpart in Dhaka

Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi, Chief of the Naval Staff (CNS), Indian Navy on Monday paid tribute to the bravehearts of the Bangladesh Armed Forces who made the supreme sacrifice during the Liberation War of Bangladesh at the Shikha Anirban (eternal flame) at Dhaka. Admiral Tripathi is on a four-day official visit to Bangladesh. The Chief of the Naval Staff held bilateral discussions with his counterpart Admiral M Nazmul Hassan, Chief of the Naval Staff, Bangladesh Navy at the Naval Headquart...

June 16, 2024 8:51 AM

Bangladesh: Huge tailbacks on highways, train rush as people leave Dhaka for Eid-ul-Adha

Huge tailbacks are reported from highways leading out of Dhaka due to the rush of people leaving the capital city to travel to their home towns and villages on the occasion of the Eid-ul-Adha festival. Bangladesh will celebrate Eid-ul-Adha, the second biggest religious festival of the Muslims, on 17 June. The Dhaka-Mymensingh highway witnessed over 10 kilometre long tailback on Friday. Various stretches of the highway reported long ques of vehicles leaving Dhaka. The home-goers suffered inordin...

June 14, 2024 11:05 AM

‘Evergreen Yoga’ organised IDY Pre-event in Dhaka

In the run up to the International Day of Yoga, 'Evergreen Yoga', organised a Pre-event at popular Ravindra Sarovar Park, Dhanmondi, Dhaka on Friday. The event was organised in collaboration with Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre (IGCC), High Commission of India, Dhaka. It was a kind of Yoga session cum demonstration to popularise Yoga and its benefits and also to give wide publicity to the upcoming International day of Yoga, 2024. Yoga practitioners and enthusiasts were gathered in large numbers a...

June 1, 2024 12:57 PM

Curtain raiser event at IGCC, Dhaka ahead of International Yoga day

High Commission of India launched a three-week long celebration of International Day of Yoga 2024 with a curtain raiser on Saturday morning at the Indira Gandhi Cultural Center (IGCC)in Dhaka.This year, the main events for the International Day of Yoga in Bangladesh will be held at Suhrawardi International Indoor Stadium, Mirpur, Dhaka on 21st June. The High commission of India in Bangladesh is organizing a series of curtain raiser yoga events during next three weeks at different venues to crea...

May 13, 2024 8:08 PM

Donald Lu due in Dhaka on Tuesday

US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu is scheduled to arrive in Dhaka on Tuesday. Lu will conclude his tri-nation tour of the South Asian region (May 10-15) in Bangladesh. Earlier, he visited India and on Monday he was in Sri lanka. According to the US Department of State, In Bangladesh, Lu will discuss trade and investment, security, climate change, citizens’ rights and other prioritised issues with Bangladesh government officials and other non-governm...

May 6, 2024 9:06 AM

Fixture schedule announced for ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2024 to be held in Bangladesh

The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Sunday announced the fixtures for the ninth ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2024 taking place from 3 to 20 October in Bangladesh. Ten teams will play 23 matches, over 18 action-packed days, at two venues in Bangladesh, the Shere Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Dhaka and the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium in Sylhet, said ICC press release. The schedule was unveiled at an event in Dhaka, attended by Nazmul Hassan, President of the Bangladesh Cricke...

April 26, 2024 6:12 PM

Dhaka, Bangkok sign five bilateral documents

Bangladesh and Thailand on Friday signed five bilateral documents for visa exemption, cooperation on energy, tourism and customs matters and negotiation of Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the two countries. The documents -an agreement, three Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) and a Letter of Intent (LoI)- were inked in presence of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Thailand Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin in Bangkok following a bilateral meeting between the two leaders. Th...

April 15, 2024 10:05 PM

Tagore & Victoria Ocampo Recital in Dhaka

The Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre (IGCC), High Commission of India in Dhaka organised a colossal Music, Dance and poetry recital on "Tagore and Victoria Ocampo- Vijaya the victorious 100 years" on Monday. Renowned Tagore scholar and singer from the United Kingdom Dr Anand Gupta and artists and musicians from Bangladesh gave spectacular performances on special bonding between Gurudev Ravindranath Tagore and Argentinian Spanish author and nobel laureate Victoria Ocampo. The ICCR alumni artist...