The eighth meeting of the South Asian Association for Regional Corporation (SAARC) Finance Ministers will be held today to discuss the matters related to the economic and financial integration of the region. Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith is not attending the meeting and State Minister for…

Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Nurul Islam BSc yesterday said the government is working sincerely to ensure safe migration and cut its cost for the country’s people, reports UNB. “The Bangladesh government has already included the migration development issue…

A gang of pirates kidnapped four fishermen for not paying toll from the Meghna River adjacent to Char Abdullahpur in Ramgati upazila yesterday noon, reports UNB from Laxmipur. Two of the kidnapped fishermen were identified as Mahiuddin and Bablu. Quoting local fishermen second officer of Ramgati Police…

Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury yesterday made a courtesy call on President Abdul Hamid at Bangabhaban, reports UNB. During the meeting, Dr Shirin, also the Chairperson of Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, apprised the President of Jatiya Sangsad activities, including development ones. President’s…

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Bangladesh’s legislature to scrap proposed cyber-security legislation that would impose severe penalties for disseminating online material deemed to be “anti-state or a threat to national security or public order”. “Proposed…

The accumulation of silt on a little bend of the Padma at the Louhajang channel has disrupted ferry services, particularly the RO-RO ferries, between Kewrakandi and Shimulia terminals, over the past three days. Some 200 heavy vehicles are stranded on both sides of the river. However, a skeleton service…

Hajj agency owners have sought the Prime Minister’s intervention to send more pilgrims this year, as the Saudi government has already allocated to Bangladesh an additional quota of 11,000 pilgrims. They, however, claimed that the government and some leaders of the Hajj Agencies Association of…

Bangladesh Navy brought back 62 fishermen and their fishing trawlers safely from the Indian waters yesterday and handed them to the Coast Guard at the Hiron Point off the Sundarbans. The fishermen in their boats got caught in a storm in the Bay of Bengal on August 16 and were swept inside the Indian…

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will exchange greetings with members of the Hindu community on tomorrow, marking the Janmashtami, reports UNB. The programme will be held at her Gulshan political office around 830pm, her media wing member Sayrul Kabir Khan said. Janmashtami, a religious festival marking…