Bangladesh has been a long-standing contributor to UN Peace Keeping missions across the globe kicking off their involvement way back in 1988. In the past thirty years, thousands of young Bangladeshi men and women have toiled abroad under difficult conditions and trying circumstances to win laurels from the UN authorities and kudos from grateful populations. Barring a few transgressions here and there,…

Policymakers in Bangladesh must have been feeling the importance of the letter sent by 3 judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC). They must also have realized, responding to this letter by 11 June 2018, is not just a mere obligation of a member country of the ICC; but it would certainly bear some impact - good or worst. In my personal views, this very letter has put the diplomatic skills…

Bangladeshi Prime Minister has started a noble war against drugs with the virtuous goal of saving millions of youths from drug addiction. Expressing her government's firm stance aganst drugs, Sheikh Hasina said, "We have contained militancy [radical Islamic militancy]. Now, we have taken an initiative to save the country from drug menace. You have noticed that drives against drugs have already…

Bangladeshi forces have always been continuing applaussable works in the United Nations Peace Keeping Forces (UNPKF). Wherever they are going locals quickly accept and embrace them as kind-hearted genuine friends. In the DR of Congo, the Bangladesh rapidly deployed battalions are playing vital role in ensuring peace. Bangladeshi peace keepers have been successful in bringing peace in Congo, a restive…

International Mother's Day is being observed across the country today as elsewhere in the world, honouring mothers with greetings. The International Mother's Day has been celebrated on the second Sunday of May every year. The day is celebrated in Bangladesh through different programmes including a grand reception to mothers of jewels, in recognition of their contribution to every sphere of…

 Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus delivered spring semester keynote speech at the Notre Dame Forum of the prestigious US University of Notre Dame in Indiana, United States on April 12, 2018. Speaking to an audience of about 650 in the Dahnke Ballroom of the Duncan Student Center at the university, Professor Yunus explained why he has devoted his life’s work to social business. In…

A delegation of Bangladesh National Defense College (NDC) has paid a visit to the East West Media Group Ltd, the largest media house in Bangladesh, on Wednesday morning. An 80-member delegation, including armed forces and civil administration officials, led by Rear Admiral M Anwarul Islam made the visit as part of the training course of NDC-2018 batch. Bashundhara Group and East West Media Group Managing…

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina went to Chandpur on a daylong visit today to join the 6th National Community Development Camp (COMDECA) of Bangladesh Scouts, open 23 development projects and lay the foundation of 24 other schemes in the district. On arrival at Haimchar upazila in the southeastern district in the morning by a helicopter, the Prime Minister has joined the inaugural function of the 6th…

The Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations are scheduled to begin across the country simultaneously on Monday (tomorrow). Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid, in a briefing, said a total 13, 11,457 students are going to participate in this year’s Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations. A total of 10, 92,607 examinees will sit for the examinations…

Seeking vote for Awami League in the next general election, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said BNP's return to power means destruction of the country. "BNP's return to power means destroying the country, burning people to death, indulging in corruption, plundering and terrorism, and creating militancy,” she said while addressing a public rally in the district town. Awami…

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged the countrymen to stay alert against anti-liberation forces' return to power so Bangladesh remained as the country of freedom fighters. "We got independence of the country in exchange for the blood of three million martyrs . . . this independence must not go in vain," she told a discussion on the occasion of the 48th Independence and the National…

In separate incidents, members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested two people, including an Indian national, and recovered 5.800 kgs of gold in Sharsha upazila of Jessore on Tuesday. The BGB men arrested the Indian citizen along with 32 gold bars weighing 3.400 kg from bordering Shikarpur in the morning, reports UNB. The arrestee was identified a Mithu Dafadar, 30, son of Hazrat Dafadar of North…

Government has decided to pool information resources on money laundering in a single file to better track the capital flight and work in a coordinated way to bring the laundered money back home. “The government is very serious about the money laundering, it has decided to maintain a single file upon taking information from various organizations like Bangladesh Bank, National Board of Revenue…