Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Adviser Dr Asif Nazrul today said Malaysian government would issue multiple entry visas for the Bangladeshi workers from now on. “I’ve good news for brothers and sisters, who are in Malaysia as workers…We have been officially confirmed that the workers will get multiple entry visas from now on,” he wrote in a post on his verified facebook page. He said, “We have visited Malaysia in May last. At that time we met with the home minister of Malaysia. We informed him that Bangladeshi workers get single entry visa in Malaysia while the other countries workers…
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BSS: Md Mahfuj Alam was one of those who led the July movement from the front and coordinated it from behind to take it to the zenith of success on August 5, 2024 toppling the Awami League regime. He worked to keep the movement alive despite the massive killings and mass arrests by the Awami League government during the July Uprising. Chief Adviser Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus introduced him as the hero behind the scenes in the July 2024 Uprising at the Clinton Global Initiative Leaders Stage of former US President Bill Clinton on the sidelines of the 79th session…
Mourning Day is being observed across the country today on the occasion of ‘July Martyrs’ Day. Marking the day, the national flag remains at half-mast in all government, semi-government and autonomous institutions and educational institutions of Bangladesh, including all government and private buildings, and Bangladesh missions abroad. Special prayers will be held in all mosques of the country seeking eternal peace of the July martyrs. Special prayers will also be offered in other religious institutions, said a notification issued by of Cabinet Division to this end on Tuesday. Doa and munajat will be held after the Zuhr prayers in all…
Home Adviser Lieutenant General Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury (Retd.) has asked the law enforcing agencies to mobilize their efforts to capture the ‘godfathers’ of the drug trafficking. “Not only the carriers, but also the godfathers of the drug trafficking must be captured to protect the next generation, family, society and the state from ruining,” he said. The home adviser was presiding over a meeting on Rohingya infiltration, camp management and drug control here today. Cox’s bazaar deputy commissioner office organized the meeting at the regional centre of BIAM Foundation. The Home Adviser has stressed the need for changing the mindset…
“Dialogue” must be at the heart of ties between Canberra and Beijing, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Tuesday as he met President Xi Jinping in the Chinese capital. Albanese is on his second visit to China as prime minister, seeking to bolster recently stabilised trade ties even as geopolitical tensions remain high. Relations between Beijing and Canberra have charted a bumpy course over the past decade, a period marked by repeated disagreements over national security and competing interests across the vast Pacific region. Ties improved in December when China called off a ban on imported Australian rock lobster,…
National Consensus Commission Vice Chairman Professor Ali Riaz today said a bicameral parliamentary system is necessary to ensure representation of the country’s social diversity. He made the remarks while briefing journalists today at the end of the 13th day of the second-phase dialogue between the commission and political parties, at the Foreign Service Academy’s Doel Hall in the capital. “To adequately reflect the existing diversity in our society, we need a bicameral parliamentary system. However, consensus is yet to be reached regarding the formation mechanism of the upper house,” said Ali Riaz. He added that the commission has placed two…
Speakers at a programme here today said July Uprising belongs to all and vowed to ensure equal rights for women and men based on the spirit of the mass upsurge. “Those who do not accept July Uprising are none of us. July does not belong to anyone alone. It belongs to all of us. We do not sell July, nor will we allow anyone to sell it,” they said. They made the remarks while addressing a programme marking the ‘July Women’s Day’ at the Central Shaheed Minar in the capital this evening. July fighter Farzana Wahid Sayan sang revolutionary songs…
The July Memorial Museum will be inaugurated on August 5 as the work of the museum is almost at its final stage. “Preparations are underway accordingly (to open the museum on August 5),” Cultural Affairs Adviser Mostofa Sarwar Farooki told a press conference at Ganabhaban here today. He said: “The July Memorial Museum will be inaugurated on August 5. However, the museum will be made open for visitors later.” Women and Children Affairs Adviser Sharmeen S Murshid, Chief Adviser’s Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam and Deputy Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad Majumder were, among others, present at the press conference. Farooki…
Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Adviser Law Dr. Asif Nazrul today said that the trial of the July killings will be completed during the tenure of the incumbent government. “Twenty-one people were martyred in Narayanganj during the mass uprising in July, and over 350 others were injured. I want to reaffirm you with full confidence that the judicial proceedings are progressing at full speed. There will be no negligence. We firmly believe that the trial of the July killings would take place during the present government’s tenure,” he said. The Adviser made these remarks while inaugurating the country’s first “July…
US President Donald Trump on Monday told Russia to resolve its Ukraine war within 50 days or face massive new economic sanctions as he laid out plans for new infusions of weaponry for Kyiv. “We’re very, very unhappy” with Russia, Trump told reporters as he met with NATO chief Mark Rutte in the White House. “We’re going to be doing very severe tariffs if we don’t have a deal in 50 days, tariffs at about 100 percent,” said Trump, adding that they would be “secondary tariffs” that target Russia’s remaining trade partners — thereby seeking to cripple Moscow’s ability to…
