Commerce Minister Khandakar Abdul Muktadir said Saturday that businesses from India and the United States (U.S.) have expressed interest in investing in Bangladesh and proposed steps to improve the investment climate.
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman on Saturday approved a plan to build a highway linking island district Bhola with Bangladesh’s main road network through Hijla and Mehendiganj, officials said.
Posts, telecommunications and information technology minister Faqir Mahbub Anam said Saturday that Information Technology (IT) Training and Incubation Centres should focus on jobs, entrepreneurship, innovation, and investment rather than training certificates alone.
Bangladesh Jatiya Party chairman and Bhola-1 lawmaker Andaleeve Rahman Partho has been appointed minister of information and broadcasting, marking his first cabinet post.
Invest Bangladesh formally began operations Thursday after the government merged three agencies in an effort to streamline services and reduce barriers for investors.
A Dhaka court summarily dismissed a case against former interim government chief adviser Muhammad Yunus and 26 others over the vandalism and arson at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s Dhanmondi 32 residence.
Retired Col. Oli Ahmad, president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), congratulated Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir after losing Bangladesh’s presidential election Thursday, offering a public concession unusual in national politics.
Home minister Salahuddin Ahmed said Thursday that the government is moving to amend Article 70 of the Constitution and that the next presidential election would be held under the revised provision.
After the assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on August 15, 1975, many of the army officers involved in the coup returned to the cantonment. Immediately after, the situation inside the cantonment began to change. What happened at the top level of the army at that time? What did the officers involved in the killing […]
Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir was elected Bangladesh’s 23rd president Thursday, winning 255 votes in the country’s first contested presidential election since 1991.
