Staff Correspondent : The first meeting of the National Consensus Commission with the political parties will be held this afternoon. Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus, also the chairman of the commission, will speak at the meeting. The meeting will begin at Foreign Service Academy at 3 pm, said sources at the Chief Adviser’s Press Wing. A BNP delegation, led by its Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, will join the meeting, BNP Media Cell member Shayrul Kabir Khan told reporters. Representatives from other political parties are also expected to join the meeting. On Thursday, the interim government formed the seven-member…
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Staff Correspondent : Deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had ordered security forces to kill protesters of the July upspring and hide their bodies to quell the protests, according to the Fact-Finding Report of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). The Fact-Finding Report titled ‘Human Rights Violations and Abuses related to the Protests of July and August 2024 in Bangladesh’ was released today. The report shows that on the evening of 18 July in 2024, the then Home Affairs Minister chaired a meeting of the ‘Core Committee’, attended by the heads of Police, RAB and BGB…
Staff Correspondent : Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain is set to attend the Indian Ocean Conference in Muscat, the capital of Oman, scheduled to be held from February 16-17. The adviser departed Dhaka this evening for Dubai, accompanying Chief Adviser Professor Dr. Muhammad Yunus, who will attend the “World Government Summit 2025” in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). “From Dubai, the Foreign Affairs Adviser will travel to Muscat on February 14 to join the Indian Ocean Conference,” an official from the foreign ministry confirmed BSS this evening. Hossain is expected to return home on February 18 after attending the…
DJ Desk : US President Donald Trump on Wednesday ordered the “reform” of the US diplomatic corps, effectively curtailing any dissent against his policies, as he continues his vast overhaul of the federal government. In an executive order, Trump said that the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, will “reform the Foreign Service and the administration of foreign relations to ensure faithful and effective implementation of the President’s foreign policy agenda.” He warned that all staff employed by the State Department to carry out US foreign policy “do so under the direction and authority of the President.” “Failure to faithfully implement…
Staff Correspondent : Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus reached Dubai on Wednesday to take part in the World Governments Summit. Minister of Sports of the United Arab Emirates Dr. Ahmad Belhoul Al Falasi received the Chief Adviser. Dr. Ahmad Belhoul Al Falasi thanked the Chief Adviser for his participation in the WGS and briefed him about the internationally reputed summit being held in Dubai annually over the past decade, according to a message received here today. They also discussed issues related to mutual interests, including possible cooperation in areas of sports and culture between the two countries. Foreign Adviser Touhid…
Staff Correspondent : Bangladesh’s ousted Sheikh Hasina’s government and security and intelligence services, alongside violent elements associated with Awami League party, systematically engaged in a range of serious human rights violations during the last year’s student-led protests, a report by the UN Human Rights Office has found. Drawing on testimony of senior officials and other evidence, it also found an official policy to attack and violently repress anti-government protesters and sympathisers, raising concerns as to crimes against humanity requiring urgent further criminal investigation. “Based on deaths reported by various credible sources, the report estimates that as many as 1,400 people…
Staff Correspondent : Home Adviser Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury today reiterated that the nationwide ‘Operation Devil Hunt’ carried by joint forces will continue as long as the devils exist. “As long as the devils exist, the ‘Operation Devil Hunt’ will continue,” he said replying to a question after coming out of the 45th National Assembly of Bangladesh Ansar and VDP at Ansar-VDP Academy at Safipur here. Asked about the seizure of illegal firearms during the operation, he said that the seizure of firearms is not up-to-the-mark of expectation, but it will increase in the days ahead. “It’s…
Staff Correspondent : The Bangladesh interim government has welcomed the fact-finding report of the UN human rights office on the July-August protests. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) released its Fact-Finding Report titled ‘Human Rights Violations and Abuses related to the Protests of July and August 2024 in Bangladesh’ today. In a statement, issued by the Chief Adviser’s Press Wing, the Bangladesh interim government thanked the Office of OHCHR for undertaking “the most thorough independent investigation to date of the events in Bangladesh in July and August that ended the Hasina regime.” The OHCHR made its…
Reiterating the interim government’s pledge to uphold the rule of law, Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus today called upon all stakeholders of Bangladesh’s justice system, including police, prosecutors and judges to work in line with that. “I, along with everyone else working in the interim government and millions of other Bangladeshis, am committed to transforming Bangladesh into a country in which all its people can live in security and dignity,” he said in a statement today following the publication a report of the UN’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). The interim government thanked the UN body…
Around 1,400 people were killed during the July uprising while majority of them were killed by military rifles and shotguns loaded with lethal metal pellets, according to the Fact-Finding Report of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). The Fact-Finding Report titled ‘Human Rights Violations and Abuses related to the Protests of July and August 2024 in Bangladesh’ was released today. The report states: “OHCHR finds that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the former Government and its security and intelligence apparatus, together with violent elements associated with the Awami League, systematically engaged in serious…
