Staff Correspondent Recently, the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command hosted a delegation from the Armed Forces of Bangladesh for the 11th iteration of the Bilateral Defense Dialogue. The U.S. and Bangladesh have a long-standing relationship built on cooperation in the defense domain and a partnership underscored by mutual respect. USINDOPACOM is committed to enhancing stability in the Indo-Pacific region by promoting security cooperation, encouraging peaceful development, responding to contingencies, deterring aggression and, when necessary, fighting to win. The delegation, led by Bangladesh’s Brig. Gen. Md Alimul Amin, director general, Operations & Plan Directorate of Armed Forces Division, and U.K. Royal Navy Commodore…
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Staff Correspondent Expatriate Bangladeshis sent home a record US$2.64 billion as remittances in December, which was around 32 per cent higher than the corresponding month of the previous year. The wage earners sent around $2 billion remittance to the country in December, 2023. With the latest addition, the year-on-year growth in receiving remittances stood at 27.56 per cent for the first six months, July to December, of the ongoing fiscal year (FY25) as the country received $13.78 billion in total during the period. Last year, it was $10.80 billion. Talking to BSS, a senior official of the central bank mentioned…
Staff Correspondent Chief Adviser Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus today said trade fairs should be organised at district and upazila levels, paving the way for youths to become entrepreneurs. He made the remarks while addressing the inaugural ceremony of the month-long Dhaka International Trade Fair 2025 in Purbachal. The chief adviser said to promote the power of the youth to become entrepreneurs through fairs, future trade fairs should be held at district and upazila levels and the final fair will be held centrally in Dhaka. He said the government should bear all the expenses to this end. “We will create opportunities…
Staff Correspondent Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain today emphasized that maintaining strong bilateral relations with three major countries – the US, India, and China – alongside addressing the Rohingya crisis, will be key priorities for Bangladesh in 2025. “Priority is to resolve the Rohingya crisis, priority is to keep good relations with those three countries, and priority is to advance our economic and diplomatic efforts while ensuring stability,” he told reporters at his ministry this afternoon. Responding to a question on whether there is any particular priority for one country over another, Touhid stated that there is no lesser…
Staff Correspondent At least one person was killed and seven wounded when a Tesla Cybertruck exploded outside a hotel belonging to US President-elect Donald Trump in Las Vegas, police said Wednesday. US President Joe Biden said authorities were investigating any links between the Las Vegas explosion and an attack earlier Wednesday in New Orleans, where a truck plowed into a crowd of New Year’s revelers, killing at least 15. However, Biden cautioned that no such links had yet been found. The FBI and local law enforcement said they believed the Tesla blast was an isolated incident. The electric vehicle pulled…
BSS Report A recent report of Indian Zeenews titled “DNA Exclusive: Analysing Mohammad Yunus’s Alleged Operation Octopus In Bangladesh” is completely false and fabricated, says chief adviser’s press wing. “The news item published in India’s Zeenews is completely false and fabricated,” the press wing said in a statement posted on its verified Facebook page – CA Press Wing Facts – yesterday. It claimed that the news item was a part of a well-calibrated propaganda campaign launched by the Indian media against the Professor Yunus-led interim government of Bangladesh. “We categorically deny every content of the story and request all not…
Staff Cortrespondent Leaders of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement and Jatiya Nagorik Committee today urged the government to declare the proclamation of the July revolution by January 15 and conduct trial of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in shortest possible time. From the ‘March for Unity’ programme held at the central Shaheed Minar, the student leaders also urged the government to ensure trial of Pilkhana and Shapla Chattar killings, ensuring safety of the student-people involved in the July mass uprising as well as bringing down the commodity prices to a tolerable level, breaking syndicates. Responding to the call of movement leaders,…
Staff Correspondent Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has extended his New Year greetings and congratulations to the countrymen. In a message on the eve of New Year, he said, “We may have to cross a more difficult path. We will have to continue our struggle to establish a true democratic system.” Stating that the people of the country should be more active in practicing and developing democracy in the state and society, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said, “We all have to work together to fulfill the expectations of the people – this should be our…
DJ desk The world ushered in 2025 on Tuesday, with huge crowds waving goodbye to the old year that brought Olympic glory, a dramatic Donald Trump return and turmoil in the Middle East and Ukraine. It is all but certain that 2024 will go down as the hottest year on record, with climate-fuelled disasters wreaking havoc from the plains of Europe to the Kathmandu Valley. “It’s been a rather complicated year, but at the same time you always have to look at the positive side of things. So it’s nice to end the year here,” said Florence Coret in Paris,…
Staff Correspondent Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has extended his greetings to the countrymen and expatriate Bengalis as well as the people across the world on the occasion of the New Year-2025. In a message on the eve of the New Year, he said, “The message of the arrival of the new excites us, inspires us to walk the path of a beautiful future with new enthusiasm.” On this auspicious occasion of the New Year, the incumbent interim government is committed to confronting all challenges and utilizing new possibilities to scale new heights to progress, he said. The Chief…
