What to know about UK鈥檚 plan to change travel entry requirements
The UK government this week announced an overhaul in non-visa entry requirements for visitors from next year.
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ACC seeks info on 38 officials of 10 Bangladesh embassies
The Anti-Corruption Commission has sent a letter to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs seeking information about 38 officials and employees of Bangladesh embassies in 10 countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada, over allegations of abuse of power and embezzlement of public money...
Five anti-graft bodies seek global action against laundered money of Bangladesh
Transparency International Bangladesh and four UK-based anti-corruption organisations have called for the immediate freezing of illegal assets held by Bangladeshis in several countries including the United States, the United Kingdom and European Union nations...
10 killed, dozens injured in Gopalganj, Narsingdi road accidents
At least ten people died and dozens were injured in road accidents in Gopalganj and Narsingdi districts on Saturday night and Sunday...
Two press ministers鈥� contractual appointments in UK, US scrapped
The contract-based appointments of two Bangladeshi ministers (press) in the United Kingdom and the United States have been terminated....
UK announces 拢450,000 more for flood affected people in Bangladesh
The United Kingdom has decided to provide additional 拢450,000 (Taka 7 crore) of vital humanitarian assistance to support more than 36,000 people affected by flooding in eastern Bangladesh, where more than five million people have been impacted....
Snigdha Equities fined for violating securities rules
The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission imposed a fine of Tk聽1 lakh on Snigdha Equities for violating three rules related to margin trading...
UK keen to help Bangladesh reform bank,w revenue sectors
The United Kingdom on Tuesday expressed its keen interest to help Bangladesh reform its banking and revenue sectors alongside the capital market...
Narsingdi clash leaves 6 killed, 50 injured
Six people were killed and at least 50 others injured by being shot or stabbed as two local rival groups clashed over establishing supremacy at Charanchal Srinagar of Narsingdi鈥檚 Raipur upazila.
NBR chairman for boosting tax-to-GDP ratio
National Board of Revenue chairman Md Abdur Rahman Khan on Sunday underscored the importance of increasing Bangladesh鈥檚 tax-to-GDP ratio, which he described as critically low compared to neighbouring countries....
UK minister Tulip facing question over living in 拢2m house
Tulip Siddiq, a senior Labour minister of the United Kingdom and niece of Bangladesh鈥檚 deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, was facing urgent questions Saturday night after it emerged that she is living in a 拢2 million house owned by a close political ally of her aunt, London-based the Daily Mail reported on Sunday...
Anti-racism protesters rally across United Kingdom
Thousands of anti-racism demonstrators rallied across the UK on Saturday to protest recent rioting blamed on the far-right in the wake of the Southport knife attack that killed three children.
Images like dry flower from my notebook
BANGLADESH was created behind my back. Since I was a reporter with the Statesman, I was surprised that I was being kept away from the Bangladesh war where friend Raghu Rai was producing brilliant photographs and Peter Hazelhurst of the Times, London, was well on his way to winning the reporter of the year award in the United Kingdom...
Huge cash recovered from car by students
A car loaded with Tk 88,50,000 and three people, including the driver, were detained by students, who were controlling traffic in Narsingdi in the absence of the police as in other places...
UK, Canada welcome interim government in Bangladesh
The United Kingdom and Canada in separate statements have extended support to Bangladesh鈥檚 newly formed interim government led by Nobel laureate professor Muhammad Yunus...
UK 鈥榦n high alert鈥� for more far-right rallies, Starmer says
The prime minister of the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer, warned on Friday that the UK authorities must 鈥榮tay on high alert鈥� in the coming hours and days, amid fears of further far-right riots in English towns and cities.
Bangladesh envoy to UK expresses allegiance to upcoming interim govt
Bangladesh high commissioner to the United Kingdom Saida Muna Tasneem expressed her allegiance in advance with the interim government that would be formed soon...
Hasina meets Ajit Doval, may seek UK asylum: Indian media
Sheikh Hasina, who resigned from her position as Bangladesh prime minister on Monday, met with Indian national security advisor Ajit Doval at the Hindon Air Force base in Ghaziabad, approximately 30km from Delhi...
Mugda hospital to be made self-sufficient: minister
Environment, forest and climate change minister and chairman of hospital management committee of Mugda Medical College Hospital, Saber Hossain Chowdhury, said that...
Home ministry鈥檚 probe body visits Narsingdi jail
The six-member investigation committee formed by home ministry鈥檚 security services department visited Narsingdi district jail on Sunday for inspection...
Prison to be renovated soon: div commissioner
The Dhaka divisional commissioner Md Sabirul Islam said on Saturday that the Narsingdi district jail would be renovated soon to make it liveable for inmates...
11 cases filed, 184 arrested over violence in Narsingdi: SP
A total of 11 cases have been filed in connection with the clashes between quota reform protesters and law enforcers, and the looting of weapons from Narsingdi prison, said Mohammad Mostafizur Rahman, Narsingdi superintendent of police, at a press conference at his office on Friday morning...
201 UK academics stand against 鈥榖rutal repression鈥� on protestors
Condemning the 鈥榖rutal repression鈥� by the state against quota reform protesters in Bangladesh, 201 academics, including both Bangladeshis and non-Bangladeshis in the United Kingdom, on Thursday issued a statement, expressing full solidarity with the student movement...
64 prisoners arrested, 10 surrender to court
Inspector general of police Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun on Monday claimed that 64 prisoners were arrested after 826 inmates of the Narsingdi district jail broke free on Friday...
2 more prisoners arrested, 156 surrender
The police on Wednesday arrested two female prisoners who were among 826 inmates of Narsingdi district jail who broke free on Friday, increasing the number of the arrested to 97...
95 more prisoners arrested, 136 surrender to court
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan claimed on Tuesday that law enforcers had arrested 95 prisoners after 826 inmates of Narsingdi district jail broke free on Friday...
Security beefed up at prisons across Bangladesh
The prison authorities on Saturday said that security had been beefed up in jails across Bangladesh after the inmates of the Narsingdi district jail broke free on Friday...
Finance ministry dismisses GDP correction
The finance ministry on Tuesday dismissed the reported apprehension about reduction of gross domestic product and per capita income following correction of the export earnings in the just concluded FY24...
Two workers electrocuted in Narsingdi
Two workers were electrocuted and five more injured while installing new poles for Palli Bidyut at Raipura upazila in Narsingdi on Tuesday...
UK to provide 拢30,000 to flood-affected people in Bangladesh
The United Kingdom is providing 拢30,000 or Tk聽4.5 crores of vital humanitarian assistance to support flood-affected communities in Sylhet, where over three million people have been impacted and 260,000 are displaced...