Bangladesh said Sunday that prime minister Tarique Rahman’s proposed visit to India is unlikely to proceed unless New Delhi acts on Dhaka’s extradition requests for former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and other fugitives.
Bangladesh marked the 51st anniversary of the assassination of founding leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on Saturday amid heightened security, arrests and clashes over attempts to hold commemorative events.
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman apologized for Bangladesh’s power and gas shortages and said the government was taking urgent steps to ease the crisis within days.
Nearly six months into Prime Minister Tarique Rahman’s government, the opposition says the administration has failed to deliver key political and institutional reforms, while the ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party argues that 180 days is too little time to judge a government confronting decades of accumulated problems.
Bangladesh plans to establish modern meat processing centers in every district as part of an effort to expand safe processing, preservation and eventual exports, state minister for fisheries and livestock Sultan Salahuddin Tuku said.
Bangladesh authorities detected 10.8 parts per million of hydrogen sulfide, a highly toxic, colorless gas, inside a ship at Ferdous Steel Shipbreaking Yard in Sitakunda, Chattogram, after an accident killed nine workers, officials said Friday.
Bangladesh spent a record $10.63 billion on crude oil and petroleum products in fiscal 2025-26, more than double the $5.14 billion spent a year earlier, according to Bangladesh Bank data.
Nine workers were killed and at least five others were injured when toxic gas leaked during the dismantling of an old ship at a yard in Bhatiari, Chattogram on Friday, according to local media reports.
Egg prices in Bangladesh’s capital have climbed to Tk150 a dozen (about $1.22), up from Tk130-140 (about $1.06-$1.14) two weeks ago, adding pressure on household budgets already strained by high vegetable prices, according to original reporting in the Business Standard.
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman is likely to visit India between Aug. 20 and 25 as Dhaka and New Delhi work to finalize dates for his first trip there since taking office in February, diplomatic sources told the Daily Star.
