Bangladesh being built with Nazrul’s non-communal spirit: PM
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said Bangladesh is being built imbued with the non-communal spirit of poet Kazi Nazrul Islam.
3,403 workers from Bangladesh detained in Malaysia since Jan 1
At least 3,403 Bangladeshi workers who became undocumented were detained by the Malaysian immigration police since January 1.
PM urged to focus on own people, not only Rohingyas
Families of the victims of enforced disappearance on Saturday urged prime minister Sheikh Hasina to focus not only the plights of Rohingyas fleeing violence in Myanmar but also the rights of the people in her own country Bangladesh.
Ward councillor Ekramul killed in Cox’s Bazar ‘gunfight’
Teknaf ward councillor Ekramul Haque, also a Awami Juba League leader, was killed in a reported gunfight with Rapid Action Battalion during the ongoing anti-drug drive at Teknaf in Cox’s Bazar early Sunday.
Delhi keeps Dhaka waiting
Lack of interest of successive Indian governments has held back Bangladesh from taking up major water sector development plans with support from other international quarters.
PM flies to Kolkata today
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina will leave Dhaka in the morning today on a two-day visit to West Bengal at the invitation of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi. She will inaugurate ‘Bangladesh Bhaban jointly with Narendra Modi at Visva Bharati and hold a meeting with him there.
Priyanka urges world to stick by Rohingya children in Bangladesh
Bollywood superstar and UNICEF international goodwill ambassador Priyanka Chopra on Thursday urged the global community to be compassionate and to donate money, time and energy to help the hundreds of thousands of vulnerable Rohingya women and children living a miserable life in the refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh.
India stalls water sharing talks for eight years
India has kept talks on sharing of water of common rivers with Bangladesh stalled for over eight years holding back the signing of interim agreements on Teesta and Feni rivers and making negotiations on five more rivers uncertain.
Teesta unlikely to get priority
Signing of an interim agreement on sharing of Teesta River waters is unlikely go get prominence in the talks between Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her India counterpart Narendra Modi at Shantiniketan of West Bengal on Friday.
Eight more ‘drug peddlers’ killed
Eight more suspected drug peddlers were killed in reported incidents of ‘gunfight’ in Rangpur, Kushtia, Comilla, Gaibandha, Lalmonirhat, Thakurgaon and Jamalpur early Wednesday as law enforcement agencies continued crackdown on drugs.
