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DHAKA : Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain today said the government is actively working to increase manpower in Bangladesh’s missions abroad, particularly at consulate general offices, to ensure better services for millions of expatriates. “We have initiated efforts to...

DHAKA :  Foreign relation analysts in Dhaka  have said they would await the follow up developments of the official level foreign office consultation (FOC) between Bangladesh and Pakistan at the political level as the issues of apology for 1971...

DHAKA : The visiting high-level delegation from the United States (US) today held talks with the top brass of the Bangladesh’s interim government focusing on the country’s ongoing reform initiatives, the upcoming national election, and the protracted Rohingya crisis. The...

DHAKA : Four national female athletes of Bangladesh will accompany Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus during his upcoming visit to Qatar. Those who are accompanying the Chief Adviser are: footballers Afida Khandaker and Shaheda Akhter Ripa and cricketers Sumaiya Akhter...

DHAKA : A visiting US delegation called on Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus here today and expressed support for the reform agenda of the Interim Government. They also discussed regional issues involving peace, security, and development. The US delegation included Deputy...

DHAKA : Bangladesh has decided to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (Water Convention) 1992. The Council of Advisers took this decision at its meeting held at the Chief Adviser's...

MEHERPUR : Liberation War Affairs Adviser Faruk-e-Azam, Bir Pratik, has said the Mujibnagar government is an internationally recognized and constitutional government as it has organized the country’s War of Liberation and helped establish relations with international communities. “The Mujibnagar government...

DUBAI : At least 35 Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip in the past day, the Qatar-based Al Jazeera TV channel reported. According to the broadcaster, an Israeli attack on a tent camp in the al-Mawasi...

DHAKA : Bangladesh and Pakistan today held a foreign secretary-level Foreign Office Consultation (FOC) in Dhaka After a gap of nearly 15 years. Bangladesh Foreign Secretary Md Jashim Uddin and Pakistan’s Foreign Secretary Amna Baloch led their respective sides during...

  DHAKA : Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today said their party wants the national election by December this year. “If national elections are not held by December, the situation in the country will worsen and...