The UN Security Council is set to vote Tuesday on a watered-down resolution addressing Iran’s threats to the Strait of Hormuz, diplomatic sources told AFP, after more robust earlier drafts faced potential vetoes. Iran has imposed an effective blockade on the critical waterway since the United States and Israel launched the war on February 28, sending ripple effects throughout the global economy. Bahrain, backed by other oil-exporting Gulf countries, had launched negotiations two weeks ago on a draft resolution that would have given a clear UN mandate to any state wishing to use force to unblock the strait. However, objections…
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The sitting of the first session of the 13th Jatiya Sangsad resumed at 10:31am today at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban with Speaker Hafiz Uddin Ahmad in the chair. The day’s proceedings began with recitation from the Holy Quran.
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman today met with family members of July Uprising martyrs and injured individuals present in a visitors’ gallery in the parliament here during a break in the Jatiya Sangsad (JS) session. Amid his busy schedule of official works, a humane moment unfolded suddenly in the parliament as the Prime Minister went to the gallery during a break in the formal proceedings. On Sunday evening, Tarique Rahman, also ruling BNP chairman, met family members of martyrs and injured participants in the July Uprising at the ‘Meghna’ gallery in the parliament, breaking down the walls of formality and distance…
Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka Pranay Verma today paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Tarique Rahman. The meeting was held at the Prime Minister’s Cabinet Division office in the Bangladesh Secretariat here, said premier’s Deputy Press Secretary Jahidul Islam Rony.
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman today called for united efforts to build a happy, prosperous “Better Bangladesh”. “Let’s all work from our respective positions and unite to build a better Bangladesh. Regardless of religion and caste, everyone must come forward to build the country,” he said. The premier made the remarks at a greetings exchange event with leaders of the Protestant Church at his Cabinet Division office in the Bangladesh Secretariat here on the occasion of Easter Sunday. Prime Minister’s Additional Press Secretary Atikur Rahman Ruman said a 13-member delegation, led by President of the Federation of Protestant Churches in Bangladesh…
US President Donald Trump made an expletive-filled threat Sunday to destroy Iran’s civilian infrastructure, demanding Tehran bow to his demands for a deal to reopen the Gulf to shipping as oil prices surge. As Christians marked Easter, Trump revived warnings of air strikes on Iranian power plants and bridges, after celebrating the rescue of a wounded airman whose fighter jet went down inside Iran. Iranian images showed wreckage of several aircraft, but Tehran did not deny US forces rescued the officer, who sheltered in a mountainous area while American special forces and Iranian troops raced to find him. The war,…
Iran’s central military command warned on Monday of “much more devastating” retaliation if its adversaries hit civilian targets. “If attacks on civilian targets are repeated, the next stages of our offensive and retaliatory operations will be much more devastating and widespread,” a spokesman for the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters said in a statement posted by state broadcaster IRIB on Telegram. The warning came after US President Donald Trump threatened to destroy Iran’s civilian infrastructure, demanding Tehran bow to his demands for a deal to reopen the Gulf to shipping.
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has taken responsibility for the families of those killed and injured in a fire at a gas-lighter manufacturing factory in Kadamtali, Keraniganj. Health and Family Welfare Minister Sardar Md. Sakhawat Husain said this while visiting the place of occurrence. He said each family of the deceased will receive TK 200,000 from Labour and Employment Ministry. He said the factory owner and others responsible will be brought under legal action. Husain said the Prime Minister will be informed so that unsafe and hazardous factories are not allowed to operate in densely populated areas. Arrangements have been made…
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today said the party would move towards holding its council very soon. “Very soon we will try to take the party towards the council,” he told journalists after a meeting of the party’s standing committee at the BNP chairperson’s political office in Gulshan at around 8:00 pm. The meeting, the first after the election, was chaired by BNP Chairman and Prime Minister Tarique Rahman. Mirza Fakhrul said the issue of how to proceed towards the party council at the earliest possible time was the main focus of the discussion. He added that the…
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman chaired the first meeting of the Private Sector Advisory Council at his Tejgaon office here this morning, according to a Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) press release. The premier formed the country’s first ever advisory council for private sector to formally facilitate business representatives to provide timely, candid and structured feedback to the highest level of the government on the business climate, investment environment and reform priorities. The members of the Council selected by the Prime Minister are- Dr. Arif Dowla, Managing Director, ACI PLC, Syed Nasim Manzur, Managing Director, Apex Footwear Ltd, Hafizur Rahman Khan,…
