1,228 reports translated from the Bengali original, most recent first. বাংলা সংস্করণ
India's Ministry of External Affairs said the government had no involvement in a New Delhi event scheduled to feature a virtual address by ousted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Dhaka College Chhatra Shibir office secretary Abdul Malek was hospitalized in critical condition after an alleged attack by campus Chhatra Dal activists on Tuesday. A Shibir official blamed a group led by Chhatra Dal…
Jagannath University student union leaders accused Chhatra Dal members of attacking hospitalized Chhatra Shibir and Chhatra Shakti leaders in Old Dhaka on Tuesday, after an earlier campus confrontation over placards left several people injured.
Bangladesh rejected an 11,500-tonne shipment of parboiled rice from India after officials at storage facilities said some unloaded grain was poor quality and unfit for consumption. Indian traders disputed the decision and attributed it…
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman will inaugurate the July Mass Uprising Memorial Museum at 9 a.m. Wednesday, Culture Minister Nitai Roy Chowdhury said. The Aug. 5 launch is reserved for invited guests and families of…
The government will take legal action under a court order if media outlets publish or broadcast speeches by ousted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the prime minister's information adviser said. He urged outlets to…
National Citizen Party northern region chief organizer Sarjis Alam warned Tuesday that Chhatra Dal would face a fate worse than Chhatra League if it adopted the former ruling party's student wing's conduct. His comment…
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman ordered officials to prepare an accurate and transparent national list of farmers by December after verification. Farmer cards will carry photographs and QR codes and connect recipients with agricultural support…
The International Crimes Tribunal prosecution is working to complete trials in killing cases linked to the July mass uprising within a year, Chief Prosecutor Aminul Islam said. He said international standards would be followed…
Jamaat-e-Islami Amir and opposition leader Dr. Shafiqur Rahman said any attempt to distort or erase the history of the July Revolution would be resisted with public support. He also called for an accurate state…
Several people were injured in clashes and counter-chases between Chhatra Dal and Chhatra Shibir at Dhaka College around 12:30 p.m. Tuesday. A Shibir official was hospitalized, while the group accused Chhatra Dal activists of…
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman met water, environmental and engineering experts Tuesday to discuss Bangladesh's water-management challenges and sustainable solutions. The group recommended long- and medium-term planning, modern technology and stronger coordination among agencies.
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has called an emergency press briefing at its central office in Moghbazar at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 3.
Prime Minister Tareque Rahman has urged Bangladeshis to dispose of waste responsibly and work together to keep the country clean and healthy for future generations.
Prime Minister Tareque Rahman has issued three directives to expand solar power and increase renewable-energy use as Bangladesh confronts an energy crisis.
Prime Minister Tareque Rahman has directed that solar panels be installed in phases on the country's key government buildings, part of three directives to expand renewable energy and tackle the energy crisis. PRAN-RFL and…
Information and Broadcasting Minister Zahir Uddin Swapan said an attempt is under way to artificially take politics outside parliament, and that making parliament effective should be everyone's main goal. He said the government is…
Prime Minister Tareque Rahman has issued three directives to expand renewable energy — installing solar panels in phases on key government buildings, supporting imports of solar-inverter raw materials, and drawing up an economic model…
Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed said the banned Awami League has no capacity to mount any activity around the second anniversary of the July uprising, and would not be allowed to carry out sabotage around…
Prime Minister Tareque Rahman has called for developing the country's economic zones as green, modern and investment-friendly industrial areas, blending industrialisation with environmental protection. A BEZA board meeting decided to plant 1.25 lakh trees…
The member-secretary of Sreepur municipal BNP, Md Billal Hossain Byapari, alleged a doctored photo linking him to liquor bottles was spread online to defame him and demanded police identify those responsible within 12 hours.…
National Citizen Party (NCP) convener and opposition chief whip Nahid Islam said the 1972 constitution has kept Bangladesh divided from the outset, and criticised the government for leaving the Chittagong Hill Tracts without representation…
BNP secretary general and Local Government Minister Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said opposition leaders who now vow not to let the government 'stay in power for five years' are speaking exactly as Sheikh Hasina…
Islamic scholar and Jamaat-e-Islami member Mufti Ali Hasan Usama has rejected the claim that Jamaat's creed is flawed, arguing that if joining a secular party does not cost someone their 'Qawmi' identity, joining Jamaat…
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has held a protest march and rally in Gangni, Meherpur, marking the second anniversary of the July mass uprising, demanding justice for the killings and full implementation of the July Charter. The…
Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Livestock Amin Ur Rashid Yasin has said the “ghosts of autocracy” are still lying in wait and would wreck the country if given the chance. He made the remarks…
Ahmet Davutoglu, once one of Turkey's most influential figures and a former foreign minister and prime minister, has announced his withdrawal from politics, saying his opposition Future Party is shutting down its activities. He…
Information and Broadcasting Minister M Zahir Uddin Swapan has said that while positive activism in the public interest can have a role, any specific agenda or bias can damage the neutrality of journalism, whose…
Amar Bangladesh (AB) Party has held a dialogue reviewing state reform, political unity and the successes and failures since the July uprising. Party Chairman Mojibur Rahman Manju said that, two years on, failures were…
Leader of the Opposition and Jamaat-e-Islami Amir Shafiqur Rahman has said the government should not forget “17 years of persecution”, accusing it of repeating the actions of the previous “fascist” rule. “We are seeing…
Prime Minister Tareque Rahman has ordered the reactivation of the waterways around the capital, Dhaka. He also directed the relevant authorities on how to prevent pollution of Dhaka's rivers, improve the drainage system and…
Local Government Minister and BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has stressed strengthening the judiciary, the administration and other constitutional institutions to make democracy durable and effective. Speaking at a reception in Thakurgaon…
About 45 top executives and business leaders from 25 leading US industrial and business firms will visit Bangladesh by the end of next week, as part of efforts to boost US investment and deepen…
Leader of the Opposition and Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Amir Dr Shafiqur Rahman has said the media is the fourth pillar of society, and urged a newspaper to publish the truth frankly even if a report…
The United States has praised Bangladesh's current stability and expressed full confidence in Prime Minister Tareque Rahman's leadership, saying Washington will positively reconsider its travel advisory to encourage fresh US investment, US special representative…
National Citizen Party chief coordinator Nasiruddin Patwari was attacked again in the Sylhet region amid the party's continuing programmes; his convoy was ambushed on the road between Sylhet Sadar and Jaintapur, breaking a car's…
Sergio Gor, the visiting US Special Envoy for South and Central Asian Affairs, has met Prime Minister Tareque Rahman at the Prime Minister's Office in Dhaka's Tejgaon, Deputy Press Secretary Zahidul Islam Roni confirmed.
A widely shared social-media claim that original HSC certificates are mandatory for chairman candidates and SSC certificates for member candidates in union council elections is entirely false; the Election Commission has issued no such…
Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer and Leader of the Opposition Dr Shafiqur Rahman visited a teenager, Alif, who lost an eye in an attack on the NCP's “July March” in Habiganj, at the National Institute of Ophthalmology…
Cases and attacks cannot stop the NCP's movement, chief organizer Nasiruddin Patwari said, responding to a case filed over an attack on party leaders in Habiganj that named him and others.
The BNP government has itself admitted that corruption has increased, Leader of the Opposition and Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Dr Shafiqur Rahman said, criticizing the government over corruption and workers' welfare.
The Law Reform Commission's proposals will be implemented in line with the “July Charter,” Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Md Asaduzzaman said in Jhenaidah.
The way the BNP is trying to obstruct and suppress the NCP resembles a “brainless Awami League,” NCP northern chief organizer Sarjis Alam said, responding to a case filed in Habiganj.
People of all communities — Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist and Christian — have lived together in Bangladesh for a thousand years, so there is no room for division, Local Government Minister Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir…
Prime Minister Tareque Rahman will not be able to run the government for long, National Citizen Party chief organizer Nasiruddin Patwari said, alleging governance failures over the economy and diplomacy. His claims about the…
Bangladesh's fugitive former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who is in India, cannot carry out political activity from Indian soil, India's foreign ministry has said, after she spoke of returning home by the end of…
No conspiracy based on religion or community will be allowed to succeed in Bangladesh, Information Minister M Zahir Uddin Swapan said, warning that any group trying to exploit religious faith for its own ends…
The government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has told a parliamentary committee that former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who is living in India, is not being given any platform or space to carry…
The NCP convener and opposition chief whip accused BNP leaders and workers of attacking his party, and said the government does not want reform.
Dr Shafiqur Rahman accused the government of “shameless politicisation” of institutions, saying the aspirations of the July uprising were not being realised.
NCP member secretary Akhtar Hossain demanded the government bear the treatment costs of a party leader who lost an eye in the Habiganj march and arrest the attackers.
Anwar Ibrahim says Myanmar has agreed to take back 300,000 Rohingya from Bangladesh and 5,000 from Malaysia after talks between the two countries.
The NCP chief organiser blamed Chhatra Dal for the attack in Golapganj; the district Chhatra Dal general secretary denied any involvement.
In a joint statement, the Islami Chhatra Shibir leadership blamed BNP and Chhatra Dal activists and called on both parties to take organisational action.
With the central committee's term expired, party sources say a new leadership could be announced in the first week of September.
Tahsin Abdullah, who lost his elder sister in the Milestone School jet crash, toured the office, took a selfie and left with a signed basketball.
Hafizul Islam Babu, who survived the 24 July attack that killed a party worker, rejected the detective branch's account of the motive at a news conference.
Al-Haiatul Ulya says it will verify complaints and gather evidence, while warning against treating isolated incidents as a verdict on the whole madrasa system.
Asif Mahmud Sajib Bhuiyan posted the remark as party leaders, blocked repeatedly on the way to Habiganj, took position on the road at the Rashidpur gas field.
The Congress leader told the Lok Sabha that the prime minister and home minister must account for police action against students protesting over the NEET paper leak.