Staff Correspondent Bangladesh will request upstream countries like China, India, Nepal and Bhutan to provide flood forecasting data in time to mitigate sufferings of people caused by the natural disaster, said Syeda Rizwana Hasan, Adviser to Water Resources Ministry here today. In this connection, she said the present interim government will continue regular engagements with these countries to this end. "Efforts will also be taken to provide timely flood forecasts to the people in simple language," the adviser said while presiding over a review meeting of the activities of different departments under the Ministry of Water Resources at the conference…
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Staff Correspondent Foreign Adviser Md Touhid Hossain has reaffirmed the interim government's commitment to conducting an impartial and internationally credible investigation into the recent Bangladesh massacre and ensuring due judicial processes are followed. He made the remark while highlighting the events leading to the second revolution through a mass uprising of people led by the valiant students in Bangladesh at the OIC's 50th Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) in Cameroon. The foreign adviser led a two-member Bangladesh delegation at the CFM held in Cameroon's capital Yaound, from August 29-30, a foreign ministry's press release said here today. During the CFM,…
Ukraine was fully within its rights to launch its surprise offensive into Russia’s Kursk border region as an act of self-defence, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg told German newspaper Die Welt. The offensive launched on August 6 caught the Kremlin off guard, with Kyiv claiming to have captured dozens of settlements and more than 1,200 square kilometres (nearly 500 square miles) of territory. “Ukraine has a right to defend itself. And according to international law, this right does not stop at the border,” Stoltenberg said in an interview with Die Welt published Saturday. “The Russian soldiers, tanks and bases there (Kursk)…
Our Correspondent Foreign Adviser Md Touhid Hossain has reaffirmed the interim government’s commitment to conducting an impartial and internationally credible investigation into the recent Bangladesh massacre and ensuring due judicial processes are followed. He made the remark while highlighting the events leading to the second revolution through a mass uprising of people led by the valiant students in Bangladesh at the OIC’s 50th Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) in Cameroon. The foreign adviser led a two-member Bangladesh delegation at the CFM held in Cameroon’s capital Yaound, from August 29-30, a foreign ministry’s press release said here today. During the CFM,…
Staff Correspondent The UN Human Rights fact-finding team, scheduled to visit Bangladesh, will make recommendations aimed at advancing justice, accountability, and longer-term reforms, according to a spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. "The Office will deploy a fact-finding team to Bangladesh in the coming weeks, with a view to reporting on violations and abuses perpetrated during the protests, analyzing root causes and, and making recommendations to advance justice and accountability and for longer-term reforms," said spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani in a statement. The statement said UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has received an official invitation…
Staff Correspondent Pakistan Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif called Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus over telephone recently, congratulating him on his assumption of the leadership of the Interim Government of Bangladesh. The Pakistan Prime Minister expressed his best wishes to the Chief Adviser and hoped that the goodwill between the two South Asian countries would be translated into substantial cooperation for the benefit of their peoples. Chief Adviser Prof Yunus thanked Pakistan Prime Minister Sharif for the phone call and the congratulatory message received from him following his swearing-in as the Bangladesh Chief Adviser after a student-led revolution, the chief…
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Staff Correspondent Chief Adviser to the interim government Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus sought cooperation of Switzerland to bring back money laundered abroad from Bangladesh. He sought the cooperation as Swiss Ambassador in Dhaka Reto Renggli paid a courtesy call on the chief adviser at his office at State Guest House Jamuna here. "Is there any way to bring back the money?" Prof Yunus asked the envoy, adding that a lot of stolen money has been transferred abroad. "It is important," the chief adviser’s press wing quoted Prof Yunus as saying. The Swiss ambassador said Switzerland is always "willing to cooperate…
Staff Correspondent The UK government is providing an additional £450,000 (BDT 7 crores) of vital humanitarian assistance to support more than 36,000 people affected by flooding in eastern Bangladesh, where more than five million people have been impacted. This builds on the £33,000 (BDT 5.2 lacs) of initial emergency funding released on Monday 26 August. It brings the UK government’s total support to disaster preparedness and response across Bangladesh this year to over £1,500,000 (BDT 23.4 crores) and is additional to the UK government’s ongoing support to help increase Bangladesh’s resilience to climate change. This assistance will support people in…
Staff Correspondent Australia would donate AUS $1 million to a charity for the flood-affected people of Bangladesh, Acting Australian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Nardia Simpson said. The Australian envoy made the announcement recently as she paid a courtesy call on Chief Adviser to the interim government Professor Dr. Muhammad Yunus at the State Guest House Jamuna here. During the meeting, Simpson condoled the loss of lives during the student-led revolution and said Australia was committed to working with the interim government of Bangladesh. They discussed various issues, including the security of the Bay of Bengal, the Rohingya crisis, human rights,…
