Fuel loading at Unit 1 of Bangladesh’s Rooppur Nuclear Power Project is likely to begin in early February, project officials said. They said trial electricity generation could start between early March and late April.
Bangladesh’s first woman prime minister, Khaleda Zia, was buried on Wednesday with state honors beside her husband, former president Ziaur Rahman, at Zia Udyan in Dhaka.
Chuadanga in western Bangladesh recorded its lowest winter temperature this year, dropping to 8.2 degrees Celsius/46.76 degrees Fahrenheit amid thick fog and chilly winds Wednesday morning.
Preparations are underway to bury former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia beside the grave of former President Ziaur Rahman at Zia Udyan in Sher-E-Bangla Nagar.
Khaleda Zia, chairperson of Bangladesh Nationalist Party and a three-time former prime minister, died Tuesday, Dec. 30, while being treated at Evercare Hospital in Dhaka.
Nahid Islam’s decision to bring Bangladesh’s National Citizen Party into an alliance with Jamaat-e-Islami reflects a shift driven by political necessity more than ideology. The move has prompted resignations and a widening backlash, but it underscores a deeper challenge: the youth-led force behind last year’s uprising has been losing political ground.
A youth-driven political party born from Bangladesh’s 2024 Monsoon Revolution is facing a widening internal revolt after agreeing to an election alliance with Jamaat-e-Islami, a move that critics inside the party say threatens its identity ahead of the February 12 national polls.
Bangladesh and Pakistan trade increased by nearly 20% in last fiscal year to about $865 million, Pakistan’s high commissioner to Bangladesh Imran Haider said Sunday after meeting chief adviser Muhammad Yunus at State Guest House Jamuna.
The country’s total fertility rate has increased for the first time in 50 years, a shift officials and public health experts say is linked to a nationwide shortage of contraceptives.
Bangladesh’s family planning program faces a crisis as contraceptive shortages threaten to exacerbate rising birth rates.
