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August 8, 2024 4:14 PM

Nobel laureate Yunus arrives to lead Bangladesh, calls for law and order

Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus returned home to strife-torn Bangladesh on Thursday, to lead a new interim government after weeks of tumultuous student protests forced Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to resign and flee to neighbouring India. Speaking to reporters upon his arrival at Dhaka's airport, Yunus called for law and order, adding that "hatred and unruliness are the enemies of democracy". Yunus is set to be sworn in as chief of a team of advisers at the official residence of Pr...

September 16, 2024 4:32 PM

NSA Ajit Doval meets Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina, discusses current situation in Dhaka

Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina held discussions with National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval on the present situation in Bangladesh and her future course of action at the Hindon Air Base in Ghaziabad on Monday, according to sources. The Indian Air Force has put its personnel on alert in every eastern sector in view of the present developments. Moreover, the Indian Air Force and other security agencies are providing security to her, and she is being moved to a safe location, according to the sou...

August 2, 2024 6:54 PM

Bangladesh: Mass processions grip Dhaka and other cities, clashes reported

In Bangladesh, thousands of demonstrators under the ‘Anti-Discrimination Student Movement’ took to roads and streets in different parts of the country on Friday. In Dhaka, hundreds of students from different educational institutions brought out processions, demanding justice for those who were killed during the recent Quota Reform Movement. They were joined by teachers and cultural activists. Despite incessant rain, hundreds of students were on streets in Chattogram city as part of the mass...

September 16, 2024 5:06 PM

Bangladesh: Quota reform coordinators announce fresh programme from secret location

In Bangladesh, Protesting students for quota reform in government jobs on Saturday has announced their next course of action programme. Rifat Rashed, Abdul Hannan Masud and Mahin Sarker, 3 coordinators of the anti-discrimination student movement, held the briefing from a secret location in the background of three of their fellow leaders of the movement having been picked up and taken into custody by police from hospital on Thursday. After the briefing it was learned that two more leaders had...

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...

September 16, 2024 6:09 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...