Staff Correspondent Nicola Beer, the vice president of the European Investment Bank (EIB), has assured the Bangladesh’s interim government of its support in carrying out vital reforms it had undertaken. She made the comments when she met Chief Advisor Professor Muhammad Yunus at the State Guest House Jamuna here today. “We have come in a very challenging time; we back the interim government and its reform agenda,” she said, adding that the EU has the technical expertise to provide the support. “Everything we can do, please ask,” she said. “It is important to make it visible that the interim…
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A small seaplane ferrying European tourists plunged into the ocean off Western Australia killing three people on board, authorities said Wednesday. The plane crashed Tuesday evening as it left Rottnest Island, a tourist drawcard famous for its friendly marsupials called quokkas. As search teams fished the wreckage from the sea on Wednesday, state Premier Roger Cook confirmed three people had died and four others survived. Among the victims were a 65-year-old woman from Switzerland, a 60-year-old man from Denmark and the 34-year-old local pilot. A 63-year-old Swiss man was rescued alongside a 58-year-old Danish woman and an Australian couple in…
Staff Correspondent Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) has issued directives to all the country’s banks and financial institutions to send the information and transaction details of ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her family members. The BFIU has sought financial information of Sheikh Hasina, her sister Sheikh Rehana, son Sajeeb Wazed Joy and daughter Saima Wazed Putul, a BFIU senior official told BSS seeking anonymity. The intelligence agency also asked for financial information of Rehana’s daughters – Tulip Siddiq and Azmina Siddiq and her son Radwan Mujib Siddiq Bobby and their business enterprises.
Former prime minister and BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia left Dhaka for London tonight by a special air ambulance. The air-ambulance provided by Qatar’s emir carrying Begum Khaleda Zia left Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 11:45pm, BNP’s media cell confirmed it. Earlier, her motorcade arrived at the airport around 11pm. Senior BNP leaders, including Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and standing committee members, saw off Khaleda Zia at the airport. BNP Chairperson left her Gulshan residence Firoza at 8:15pm for the airport to board the air ambulance. Khaleda Zia’s adviser Dr. Enamul Haque Chowdhury said there will be a…
DJ Desk A ferocious wildfire in a Los Angeles suburb burned buildings and sparked panicked evacuations Tuesday, as hurricane-force winds tore through the region. Frightened residents abandoned their cars on one of the only roads in and out of the upscale Pacific Palisades area, fleeing on foot from the 1,260-acre (510-hectare) blaze engulfing an area crammed with multi-million dollar homes in the Santa Monica Mountains. Firefighters used bulldozers to push dozens of vehicles — including expensive models like BMWs, Teslas and Mercedes — to one side, leaving many crumpled and with their alarms sounding. Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristin…
DJ Desk An earthquake was felt in the capital and different parts of the country this morning as the epicenter of the tremor was Xizang province in China, said Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) here today. The tremor, measuring 7.1 magnitude on the Richter scale, struck the epicenter at 7.05am Bangladesh Standard Time (BST) and the epicenter was around 618 kilometers north-west from (BMD)’s seismic center at Agargaon in the capital, it said. However, no damages or casualties were reported in the country due to the earthquake.
DJ Desk It is not a job that she would have had on her bucket list, but a gracious Kamala Harris put on a brave face — and even a broad grin — on Monday as she presided over the certification of her defeat to Donald Trump in November’s presidential election. The US Constitution requires that vice presidents — in their secondary role as president of the Senate — run the show when Congress holds its joint session to formally tally electoral college votes and name the new president. The task can be more painful and unpleasant, though, for those…
Staff Correspondent BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia will be admitted to London Clinic in the UK for advanced treatment as she will leave Dhaka tomorrow for London. Her personal physician Prof Dr AZM Zahid Hossain at a press conference at the BNP Chairperson’s Gulshan political office here today said, Khaleda Zia will leave Dhaka for London at 10 pm tomorrow in a special air ambulance. “Khaleda Zia will be admitted to prestigious London Clinic under the National Health Service (NHS),” he said. Khaleda Zia will be taken to the hospital directly from the Heathrow International Airport, he said. “We are…
Staff Correspondent Chief Adviser’s Deputy Press Secretary Apurba Jahangir has said Bangladesh, for over a decade, lived under the shadow of a regime that turned “elections into farces, dissent into treason, and the press into a pliant karaoke machine”. He said the ousted Hasina government was not content with just running the country; it wanted to own it, complete with a monopoly on truth. “And yet, many Indian media outlets covered her like she was the reincarnation of Florence Nightingale with a hint of Indira Gandhi — a benevolent savior wrapped in a saree,” he wrote in Facebook post shared…
