The mother of an Israeli soldier held hostage in Gaza longs for her son’s return, fearing that Israel’s renewed bombardment of the territory puts his life at even greater risk. “Our children are in danger,” Herut Nimrodi told AFP during an interview. Her son, Tamir, was just 18 when he was taken to Gaza on October 7, 2023. “We don’t know much, but one thing that is certain is that military pressure on Gaza endangers the hostages,” she said. Of the 251 hostages seized during Hamas’s unprecedented attack on Israel, 58 are still held in Gaza, including 34 the Israeli…
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Chief Adviser’s High Representative Dr Khalilur Rahman today said Rohingya repatriation is clearly connected to establishing peace in Arakan of Myanmar. “Ensuring peace in Arakan and Rohingya repatriation are essentially interconnected. None can be pushed back into a warzone. We are always talking about voluntary repatriation,” he told at a press briefing at the Foreign Service Academy here this afternoon. Referring to the recent visit of Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus and United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres to Rogingya camps in Cox’s Bazar, Dr Khalilur said Rohingyas showed enormous willingness to return their home in Myanmar but they could not…
Leading US investors in Bangladesh, represented by the U.S.-Bangladesh Business Council, met Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on at the State Guest House Jamuna here today. They expressed their commitment to champion a growing Bangladesh-U.S. economic partnership and to help catalyze and support mutually beneficial commercial relations between the two nations. The delegation was led by Peter Haas, former US Ambassador to Bangladesh and Strategic Advisor at Excelerate Energy, and included representatives from Meta, Visa, Chevron, Uber, MetLife, Mastercard, Boeing and the U.S. Soybean Export Council. Excelerate Energy chairs the board of directors of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s U.S.-Bangladesh…
The BRICS-established New Development Bank (NDB) has planned to raise its lending to Bangladesh development projects to US$ one billion this year, a vice-president of the Shanghai-based multilateral lender said here today. Vladimir Kazbekov, a Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of NDB, said the bank has approved US$ 320 million for the implementation of the Expanded Dhaka City Water Supply Resilient project. But, this year it wants to more than triple the funding amount in view of Bangladesh’s development needs. Kazbekov made the comments when he called on Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus at the State Guest House Jamuna…
The special rescue team, sent to earthquake-hit-Myanmar at the initiative of the Bangladesh government, is carrying out humanitarian tasks relentlessly. In the wake of earthquake on March 28 that caused widespread loss of life damage to infrastructure, a special rescue and medical assistance team under the supervision of the Bangladesh Armed Forces was sent to Naypyidaw, the capital of Myanmar, on April 1, said an ISPR press release today. The rescue operation was conducted on the quake-hit building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs there. Important documents and other items were recovered in this operation. The Bangladesh Medical Assistance Team…
Staff Correspondent : Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has found bank balance of Tk 100 crore and illegally acquired moveable and immoveable assets in the names of former chief of Special Security Force (SSF) Mujibur Rahman and his wife Tasrin Mujib. Deputy Director (DD) of ACC Mohammad Sirajul Haque, also the chief of a three-member inquiry team, told BSS today that they found the evidences of the money and illegal assets within four days of their investigation after getting approval from the commission before Eid vacation. The Senior Special Judge of the Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Court Zakir Hossain yesterday instructed the concerned…
Staff Correspondent : Bangladesh today expressed its strongest condemnation of the Israeli Occupying Forces’ continued mass killing and gross violations of human rights in the Gaza Strip. “The Government of Bangladesh demands that Israel immediately cease all military operations, exercise maximum restraint, and abide by its duty under international humanitarian law,” said the foreign ministry in a statement here. It said that Bangladesh strongly denounced the Israeli Occupying Forces’ indiscriminate aerial bombardment of densely populated civilian areas in Gaza with the overt intention of carrying out ethnic cleansing against the defenseless Palestinian population. Israel’s ongoing military attacks since last month’s…
Staff Correspondent : Philippine Ambassador Nina P. Cainglet called on Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus at the State Guest House Jamuna here today. During the meeting, they discussed about strengthening bilateral relations between the Philippines and Bangladesh, Chief Adviser’s Deputy Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad Majumder told BSS. Key topics including the expansion of trade and commerce between the two nations and exploration of potential MOUs to further solidify collaboration various sectors came up in the discussion. They also highlighted the potential areas for increased cooperation, such as agriculture and education, with both the sides expressing optimism about the future…
DJ Desk : Another pandemic will occur sooner or later and this is not a “theoretical risk” but an “epidemiological certainty,” World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said. Speaking at the opening of the resumed Thirteenth Meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body on the WHO Pandemic Agreement, he reiterated the dire consequences of the COVID-19 outbreak worldwide, emphasizing that “the next pandemic will not wait until things calm down.” According to the WHO chief, its emergence is “not a theoretical risk; it is an epidemiological certainty.” He reiterated that another pandemic “could happen in 20 years…
Staff Correspondent : Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus today sent a letter to US President Donald Trump requesting him to postpone the application of a 37 percent tariff on Bangladeshi products in the US market. The Chief Adviser’s Office (CAO) confirmed it to BSS. Chief Adviser Prof Yunus has addressed a letter to US President Donald J Trump requesting him to postpone the application of US reciprocal tariff measures on Bangladesh for three months to allow the interim government to smoothly implement its initiative to substantially increase US exports to Bangladesh, said a statement issued by the Chief Adviser’s Press…
