Information and Broadcasting Minister Zahir Uddin Swapon said here today that the youth are the main driving force of new civilisation in the era of rapidly changing technology. “With the knowledge and experience of the old days, it is difficult to deal with the new challenges that are being created every day in the ongoing new ecosystem, including emergence of artificial intelligence (AI). So, it is the duty of every country to impart the right knowledge and skills to the youths,” he said. The minister was addressing an event at the Foreign Service Academy here marking the ‘International Youth Day…
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(BSS) – Prime Minister’s Foreign Affairs Adviser Humauin Kobir today said closer partnerships with US businesses and investors could significantly contribute to Bangladesh’s economic growth, employment generation and exchange of technology and knowledge. “Bangladesh is currently passing through an important phase of economic transformation and emerging opportunities,” he said while meeting a high-level US business delegation at the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) here. The delegation, led by US-Bangladesh Business Council President Atul Keshap, paid a courtesy call on the Foreign Affairs Adviser and discussed ways to further strengthen bilateral trade and investment ties. Welcoming the delegation, Kabir said Bangladesh and…
(BSS/AFP) – Keeping a low profile doesn’t come naturally to Donald Trump. Yet that is the strategy the American president says he now favors in the war against Iran, and he is betting on economic pressure over diplomacy or new strikes. “We are low-keying it,” Trump told news site Axios by phone Sunday. “We’re only semi-negotiating with them. We are just watching Iran with its huge inflation and the fact they have no money.” The billionaire has since repeated that he is keeping the option of striking Tehran on the table, but prefers to stress the economic damage inflicted on…
(BSS/AFP) – Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam on Wednesday condemned Israel’s “systematic destruction” in the country’s south as a violation of international law, as Israel’s defence minister said its military was “destroying all the houses” there. Salam said Israeli “attacks, incursions, demolitions and the systematic destruction of homes”, infrastructure, government buildings and places of worship “represent a serious violation of the principles and rules of international law and international humanitarian law”. Claiming that villages and towns “are entirely ‘military facilities’ does not stand up to any logic and cannot be used as an excuse for destroying them, displacing their inhabitants…
‘July Mass Uprising Memorial Museum Act, 2026′ has been enacted to establish and operate the July Mass Uprising Memorial Museum. Under the law, any person causing damage to any immovable artefact of the July Mass Uprising Memorial Museum will be punishable with up to 10 years’ imprisonment, a fine of up to Taka 10 lakh, or both. The law was enacted on April 10, 2026, to establish and operate the museum for preserving, researching and displaying the history, artefacts and documents relating to the July-August 2024 mass uprising and the anti-autocracy movement. The July Mass Uprising Memorial Museum, established under…
Newly appointed Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations Irene Khan paid a courtesy call on Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed at his office at the Bangladesh Secretariat this afternoon. The meeting was held at the Home Ministry office in the Bangladesh Secretariat, according to a short message of the ministry.
A meeting of the members of parliament has been scheduled at 2:00 pm on August 20 to hold the election for the President. Chief Election Commissioner and Election Officer for the President Election-2026 A M M Nasir Uddin issued a notice in this regard today. The meeting was called under the authority conferred by Section 5(3) of the Presidential Election Act, 1991, and after consultation with the Speaker. The notice said, “The meeting of the members of parliament for the election of the President will be held at 2:00 pm on Thursday, August 20 in the Parliament Chamber of the…
The government today signed lease agreements with two private business groups to reopen three long-closed state-owned jute mills with around Tk 619 crore in investment, creating at least 11,629 jobs and generating an estimated annual turnover of Tk 1,175 crore. The agreements were signed in the presence of Prime Minister Tarique Rahman at the Cabinet Division meeting room at Bangladesh Secretariat between Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation (BJMC) and PRAN-RFL Group and HAMCO Group, said Prime Minister’s Deputy Press Secretary Hasan Shiplu. Under the agreements, PRAN-RFL Group has officially secured the lease for National Jute Mills Ltd in Sirajganj and Star…
(BSS) – Prime Minister Tarique Rahman today said the state would become stronger only when its people are economically empowered, stressing the need to ensure economic capacity of citizens alongside political rights to build a strong and prosperous Bangladesh. “Keeping ordinary people in hardship or silencing them cannot make a state strong. Political rights must go hand in hand with economic empowerment. To this end, the government will extend all necessary policy support to encourage domestic entrepreneurs to invest and create employment,” he said. The Prime Minister made the remarks at a ceremony held today at the Cabinet Division of…
(BSS/AFP) – Donald Trump confirmed Tuesday that he secretly switched planes because of a threat to his life, after the Washington Post revealed the US president was smuggled out of Air Force One to a different aircraft on a catering truck. “They wanted me to go in a different flight, a different plane — equal safety, but they wanted me to do it, so I do it. I do what they say,” Trump told reporters during a gaggle. “I guess there was a threat out there. I didn’t really ask too much about it.” The newspaper reported Monday that the…
