India fired missiles at Pakistani territory early Wednesday in a major escalation of tensions between the nuclear-armed rivals, as Islamabad vowed retaliation, agencies report. The Indian government said it had attacked nine sites, describing them as “precision strikes at terrorist camps” in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, days after it blamed Islamabad for a Continue Reading
NEWS DESK Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chairperson and former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia on Tuesday returned home from United Kingdom (UK) after treatment as party Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir led senior leaders to welcome her at the airport with flower bouquet. The pro-democracy leader reached Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around Continue Reading
NEWS DESK British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Sarah Cooke on Monday paid a courtesy call on Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Affairs Adviser Supradip Chakma at his Secretariat office in Dhaka city. Various issues including implementation of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord, strengthening the security system in the CHT and developing the education system were […]Continue Reading
Myanmar’s regime has rejected a proposal by Bangladesh’s largest Islamist political party, Jamaat-e-Islami, for the creation of an independent Rohingya state in Rakhine State. AFP reports. Jamaat made the proposal during a meeting with a Communist Party of China (CPC) delegation in Dhaka on Sunday. China has not responded. The Jamaat delegation’s leader Nayeb-e-Ameer Syed Continue Reading
NEWS DESK Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia, also a former prime minister, is scheduled to return home from London on Monday after nearly four months of advanced medical treatment there. BNP chairperson’s private secretary ABM Abdus Sattar confirmed on Friday that Khaleda was expected to arrive in Dhaka in the morning of May 5. […]Continue Reading
NEWS DESK The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) on Friday said that the comments made by Major General ALM Fazlur Rahman (retd) on his personal social media account do not reflect the position or policies of the Government of Bangladesh. “Government of Bangladesh wishes to clarify that the recent remarks made by Major General ALM […]Continue Reading