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Prof Yunus named among world's most influential Muslims

News —7 October, 2024 14:20

The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre, based in Amman, has unveiled its 16th annual list of the world's most influential Muslim personalities for 2025.…

Prof Yunus named among world's most influential Muslims

Munni Saha's bank account details sought

Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) has asked for…

Munni Saha's bank account details sought
Bank accounts of Bashundhara’s Sobhan, son Anvir, family frozen

Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) has directed banks…

Bank accounts of Bashundhara’s Sobhan, son Anvir, family frozen

Iqbal Hasan Mahmud Tuku returns home after a long exile

Iqbal Hasan Mahmud Tuku returns home after a long exile

BNP standing committee member Iqbal Hasan Mahmud Tuku on Sunday returned home from London after a long exile. The BNP leader arrived at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport by a…

Saber Hossain arrested

Saber Hossain arrested

Saber Hossain Chowdhury,former minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, was arrested in the capital on Sunday. A team of Detective Branch arrested him from the capital's Gulshan area, said DC (media) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Talebur Rahman. The police official, however, did not disclose in which case he was arrested.  

Jaishankar rules out talks with Pakistan amid SAARC stalemate

Jaishankar rules out talks with Pakistan amid SAARC stalemate

Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar stated that the Indian Subcontinent has witnessed more regional integration in the last five to six years than at any time since the…

CPD estimates Tk 14,421cr flood losses in eastern Bangladesh

CPD estimates Tk 14,421cr flood losses in eastern Bangladesh

The recent flood in eastern part of the country caused an estimated loss of around Taka 14,421.46 crore tantamount to around US$1.20 billion, a Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) study…

Travel ban imposed on ex-NSI DG, his wife

Travel ban imposed on ex-NSI DG, his wife

A Dhaka court on Sunday imposed a travel ban on former Director General of the National Security Intelligence (NSI) Major General (retd) TM Jobayer, and his wife Fahamina Masud. Dhaka…

BPDB tender for grid-connected plants faces setback

BPDB tender for grid-connected plants faces setback

The state-owned Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) has failed to float an open tender for setting up 10 grid-connected solar power plants in the private sector, despite a top-level…

BNP urges chief adviser to announce election roadmap

BNP urges chief adviser to announce election roadmap

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has placed a series of demands to the chief adviser including formation of a new election commission (EC) on the consensus of major political parties…

Unplanned education system causing rising unemployment: Wahiduddin Mahmud

Unplanned education system causing rising unemployment: Wahiduddin Mahmud

Wahiduddin Mahmud, adviser to the Ministry of Education, has expressed concern over the "unplanned nature" of the country's education system, saying that while universities have been…

BNP places strategic proposals targeting Hasina

BNP places strategic proposals targeting Hasina

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday placed a number of proposals before the interim government seeking urgent steps to address their concerns, including former…

Hezbollah battles troops on border as Israel pounds Lebanon

Hezbollah battles troops on border as Israel pounds Lebanon

Hezbollah said Saturday its fighters were confronting Israeli troops in Lebanon's southern border region, where the Israeli military said it struck militants from the Iran-backed movement…

CA mourns ex-president Badruddoza's death

CA mourns ex-president Badruddoza's death

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus today condoled the death of former president AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury. He said the nation has lost a distinguished public servant and a respected…

Malaysian PM pledges immediate action on 18,000 new Bangladeshi entries

Malaysian PM pledges immediate action on 18,000 new Bangladeshi entries

Reassuring decent working conditions, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim on Friday said his government will give immediate attention to the fresh entry of 18,000 Bangladeshi workers…

Met office forecasts light to moderate rain over country

Met office forecasts light to moderate rain over country

Light to moderate rain likely to occur at most places over the country in the next 24 hours (from 9 am) as monsoon is active over Bangladesh, a Met office bulletin said here this morning.…

Prof Yunus holds one-to-one talk with visiting Anwar Ibrahim

Prof Yunus holds one-to-one talk with visiting Anwar Ibrahim

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus held a brief one-to-one talk with visiting Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Friday. Prof.…