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.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) acting chairman Tarique Rahman used his return address to blend faith, history, and politics, presenting his comeback as a moment of divine mercy and popular will while outlining a vision centered on democracy, unity, justice, and restraint amid warnings of conspiracies and unrest.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) acting chairman Tarique Rahman urged patience and restraint Wednesday, warning that “agents of various dominant powers are still engaged in conspiracies,” as he addressed a reception in Dhaka after arriving in his homeland from the United Kingdom following nearly two decades in exile.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party acting chairman Tarique Rahman is set to return to Bangladesh on Wednesday with his wife and daughter after 17 years in exile.
Home adviser Jahangir Alam Chowdhury should resign to protect public confidence in Bangladesh’s security institutions and the country’s election path after the killing of Inqilab Moncho convenor Sharif Osman bin Hadi and the violence that followed. If he will not step aside, interim chief adviser Muhammad Yunus should remove him.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said defeated “fascist forces” are trying to derail Bangladesh’s upcoming national election while another force is sowing divisions using religion.
At least six Bangladeshi peacekeepers were killed and eight others injured in an attack on a United Nations base in Sudan, the Bangladesh Army said Saturday.
Four crude bombs exploded in different parts of Dhaka on Saturday, leaving one person injured, police said.
