Bangladesh foreign minister Khalilur Rahman was sworn in Tuesday as president of the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly, returning Bangladesh to the post for the first time in nearly four decades.
Bangladesh’s Cabinet on Monday approved six-month tax and customs exemptions for machinery and equipment imported to build renewable solar power plants, a move aimed at accelerating installations and easing electricity shortages.
Farmers blocked Lalmonirhat-Burimari highway in Bangladesh’s Lalmonirhat district, protesting an alleged fertilizer shortage during peak Aman season and accusing dealers of creating an artificial crisis.
Bangladesh is moving forward with a Tk 45,504 crore (approximately $3.70 billion) Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Line-5 southern route, with the project expected to go before the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) next week.
Bangladesh faces a sharp rise in energy subsidies as Middle East conflict disrupts liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplies and drives spot prices higher.
Bangladesh has provided $1 million, equivalent to Tk 12.3 crore (approximately $1.002 million), to Nepal for relief, recovery, and humanitarian efforts after devastating floods and mudslides in the country’s northern region, the foreign ministry said Thursday.
Farmers across Bangladesh are struggling to obtain fertilizer as shortages, distribution problems, and alleged black-market sales raise fears of a deeper crisis during the coming Boro rice season.
Bangladesh’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has launched an investigation into alleged corruption and irregularities at the Ministry of Youth and Sports, naming former interim government adviser Asif Mahmud Sajeeb Bhuiyan and three officials.
Bangladesh-India relations should be built on mutual respect, sovereignty, and stronger people-to-people ties, Bangladesh parliament speaker Hafiz Uddin Ahmad said Wednesday during a meeting with Indian high commissioner Dinesh Trivedi.
Three Bangladesh Air Force personnel were killed and another was seriously injured in a road accident near Terminal 3 of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka, officials said.
