Dhaka March 12, 2025, 5:16 pm
The first ever Bangabandhu Chair, a Ph.D level doctoral fellowship, would be opened at Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in Bangkok
An US-Bangla Airlines flight crashed and burst into flames while landing at Kathmandu with 71 people onboard including crews
A total of 51 people from the 71 passengers and four crew members died when Flight BS211 of the US-Bangla Airlines veered off the runway
The United Nations Resident Coordinator to Bangladesh Mia Seppo on Wedenesday reiterated the UN call insisting Myanmar on creating 'conditions' for safe return of the Rohingyas to their homeland from Bangladesh
The High Court on March 12 granted four-month bail to the BNP chairperson in the case, in which she was sentenced to five years imprisonment
Bangladesh Embassy in Nepal and a Boishakhi TV delegation now in Kathmandu have confirmed the death of Faisal
The High Court on Monday granted four-month bail to the BNP chairperson in the case, in which she was sentenced to five years imprisonment
A Feni court on Tuesday sentenced 39 people to death in the sensational Fulgazi upazila parishad chairman Ekramul Haque killing case
Abid Sultan, an experienced pilot, flied 5,000 hours in total and 1,700 hours with the crashed flight
The special flight of the airlines that left Dhaka for Nepal around 9:02am with 46 relatives on board landed at the airport around 10:40am
32 from Bangladesh, 33 from Nepal and one each from China and the Maldives, according to sources at the airlines
Sheikh Hasina, who arrived in Singapore on Sunday on a four-day official visit, was scheduled to return home on Wednesday
Sheikh Hasina told the Nepalese prime minister that she will send a team to assist Nepal immediately after opening of the Tribhuban Airport in Kathmandu
Sheikh Hasina invited the Singapore president and the prime minister to visit Bangladesh in their convenience this year while both of them accepted the invitation saying schedules of their visits would be fixed on the conveni
Bangladesh appreciated Chinese humanitarian assistance for the displaced people of Rakhine State and sought political support of China to end the protracted Rohingya crisis, said State Minister for Shahriar Alam
The government is working on relocating as many as 133,000 members of the Rohingya families by March 31
The government has a plan to preserve the oral history of the Liberation War of 1971 by recording wartime experience of the living freedom fighters
they prayed for eternal peace of the departed souls of the crash victims and conveyed deep sympathy to the bereaved family members
As many as 71 persons, including four crew members, were on-board the aircraft, of which 37 were Bangladeshis, 32 were Nepalis, one Chinese and one Maldivian nationals
Seven passengers were pulled out and rushed to the hospital while the fire-fighters are trying to rescue other remaining passengers
