Dhaka

Three Bangladesh Air Force personnel were killed and four others seriously injured after a pickup van lost control and fell from a second-floor flyover at the Third Terminal of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka at about 10:20pm on Monday, August 31. The accident occurred on the flyover

State Minister for Foreign Affairs Humaiun Kobir today said Bangladesh sees no risk in joining the Mecca Defence Pact and it would not restrict Bangladesh’s engagement with other partners. “This is a unique pact that, presenting new opportunities,” he told reporters at the foreign ministry after Sau

State Minister for Foreign Affairs Humaiun Kobir today said Bangladesh views positively the "Mecca Defence Pact" involving Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey, noting that Dhaka's participation in such an initiative among Islamic nations would not be unusual. "We have expressed interest in the Mecca D

Bangladesh has not yet made any final decision on Prime Minister Tarique Rahman’s possible visit to India, Press Secretary A A M Saleh said on Friday after several Indian media outlets reported that he would travel to New Delhi from August 23 to 25. Speaking to Reuters, Saleh said, “No decision has

Four members of the family of Debashish Dutta, Kushtia correspondent of Dainik Aajker Patrika, were killed in a devastating fire at a residential hotel in Kolkata early Wednesday, as the newspaper expressed deep grief over the loss. Local authorities have so far identified six of the nine victims, f

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman today called upon entrepreneurs to make optimum use of the country's vast water resources to expand fisheries production, create employment for unemployed youths and explore new overseas markets to boost export earnings. "Many rivers, canals, beels, ponds and haors acro

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman is set to visit Kishoreganj tomorrow to inaugurate the National Fisheries Week-2026 and attend several other programmes during his daylong tour of the district. The Prime Minister will leave Dhaka for Kishoreganj by road tomorrow morning and it will be his first visit t

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman on Tuesday morning called on US companies to invest in Bangladesh and expand their operations, assuring American investors of government support and an investment-friendly environment. He made the remarks at a meeting with a 50-member delegation of the US-Bangladesh Bus

Gas and electricity shortages intensified across Bangladesh on Wednesday, leaving household gas stoves largely unusable for much of the day in Dhaka and other parts of the country, while load shedding expanded nationwide. Rural areas were hit hardest, with outages lasting up to 10 to 15 hours, disru

More than 260 passengers on Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight BG-306 on the Toronto-Rome-Dhaka route have been stranded for over 28 hours at Rome Fiumicino Airport after a mechanical fault was detected during routine refuelling on Friday morning, leaving many passengers ill and forcing some to spend

India has said the government had no role in the recent media interaction by ousted Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina in New Delhi and does not support any of the remarks she made there, particularly those concerning Bangladesh’s legally constituted government. The statement was made on Friday