Staff Corresponfdent : Fact-checking body Rumor Scanner has revealed that an old video of being tortured in India is propagated as an recent incident of Bangladesh. In a report published on its website on Wednesday, the fact checking watchdog said recently, a video with the caption “Dr. Yunus seized power, Bangladesh became a terrifying state. He and his gang of goons are torturing the people”‘ was circulated on some Indian X (former Twitter) accounts. It is claimed that Chief Adviser Dr. Muhammad Yunus has seized power and established a reign of terror in Bangladesh and his gang of goons is…
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Staff Correspondent Bangladesh will seek a reduction in loan interest rate and an extension of the repayment period by 30 years from China during the upcoming visit of Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain. “Mainly, economic issues will come up for discussion. Some issues are very important. Bangladesh’s trade and economic relations with China are very important,” Touhid told reporters at a briefing on his Beijing visit at the foreign ministry here this afternoon. The adviser said he will also request withdrawal of commitment fees as part of efforts to enhance economic cooperation between the two countries. Foreign adviser’s official…
Staff Correspondent : Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus today said a charter of new Bangladesh will be formed by building national unity through talks. “…what we want to form is to make a charter of the mass uprising, which will be the charter of new Bangladesh. It will be based on unity. There will be elections; there will be all but we should not move from the charter,” he said in his opening speech at an event here. Reports of four reform commissions, with specific recommendations for state reforms, were submitted to Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus at the event…
Staff Correspondent : An all-party meeting will be held today aiming to finalise proclamation of the July Revolution. “The Interim Government, led by Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus, will hold an all-party conference over the July proclamation at the Foreign Service Academy from 4 pm to 7pm on Thursday,” the chief adviser press wing sources said. On January 14, Adviser Mahfuj Alam at a press briefing said that the council of advisers formulated a draft of the July proclamation and held talks with some political parties, including BNP, Jamaat-e-Islami, and many stakeholders to get their opinions. He hoped that all-party…
Staff Correspondent : US President Joe Biden urged Americans Wednesday to stand guard against a “dangerous” oligarchy forming under Donald Trump as he delivered a dark farewell address before stepping down next week. In a primetime speech from the Oval Office at the end of his single term in office, he warned of an ultra-wealthy “tech industrial complex” that he said could gain unchecked power over the American people. “Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms,” the 82-year-old Democrat said. Biden began…
Staff Coprrespondent : Religious Affairs Adviser Dr A F M Khalid Hossain today visited the four-day ‘Hajj and Umrah Services Conference and Exhibition’ in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Saudi Hajj and Umrah Minister Dr Tawfiq bin Fawzan Al-rabiah welcomed him there, according to a press release received here today. Earlier, Deputy Governor of Makkah Region Prince Saud bin Mishaal bin Abdulaziz inaugurated the exhibition while religious ministers, ambassadors and representatives from 87 countries took part in it. The Bangladeshi delegation, led by the religious adviser, participated in the Hajj conference and exhibition. Later, the delegation visited the stalls of various Hajj…
Staff Correspondent : Venezuela said Tuesday it would limit the number of accredited diplomats at the French, Italian and Dutch embassies, citing their governments’ “hostile” response to Nicolas Maduro’s inauguration for a third presidential term. The Venezuelan foreign ministry said the diplomats — maximum three per country — would also need “written authorization… to travel more than 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Plaza Bolivar” in the capital Caracas. Maduro, 62, is embroiled in a standoff with the West and several Latin American countries over his disputed claim to have won another six year-term in July 28 elections he is widely…
Staff Correspondent : Anti-corruption minister Tulip Siddiq resigned from the UK government Tuesday after being named in graft probes in Bangladesh launched when her aunt, Sheikh Hasina, was ousted as the country’s leader. In a letter to Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Siddiq repeated she had done nothing wrong but said continuing in office would likely “be a distraction from the work of the government”. Siddiq, 42, has been dogged by claims about her links to Hasina, who fled Bangladesh in August after a student-led uprising against her decades-long, increasingly authoritarian tenure as prime minister. Hasina, 77, has defied extradition requests…
Staff Correspondent : Chief Adviser’s Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam today said four reform commissions out of six will submit their respective reports to Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus tomorrow. “Members of the four commissions will go to the Chief Adviser’s Office in Tejgaon and will hand over their reports. The chief adviser and other advisers will be present there,” he told a press briefing at the Foreign Service Academy in the evening. Alam said there will be a discussion that is expected to continue till 1:30 pm, while they (commissions) will share the elaborate description of their findings and recommendations.…
Staff Correspondent : The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) today acquitted all including Begum Khaleda Zia of graft charges in the Zia Orphanage Trust case. The Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed this morning pronounced the verdict unanimously acquitting them who were convicted and sentenced by the lower court in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case, allowing their appeals in the case. The court came up with the judgment cancelling the High Court order that extended Begum Khaleda Zia’s initial five-year jail term to 10 in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case, and a lower…
