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Chittagong — Chinese Navy hospital ship Peace Ark arrived at Bangladesh’s southeastern port city Chittagong on Monday, beginning its one-week mission to provide free medical service to locals.

Iran’s former defense minister says his country is ranked sixth in the world in missile production.

The Border Security Force (BSF) personnel deployed along the frontier of Bangladesh celebrated the 67th Independence Day by exchanging sweets and greetings with their counterparts from Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB).

All ranks of the Border Security Force (BSF) deployed in India’s eastern frontier would be assigned with a special task from Independence Day — to learn Bangla in its spoken and written forms. 

Leader of the Opposition and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia turns 69 on Thursday.  

DHAKA – The government today announced appointment of Major General Mohammad Ashab Uddin as the country’s new ambassador to Kuwait.

Dhaka – Newly elected mayor of Gazipur City Corporation (GCC) Prof MA Mannan and its 75 councillors, including 19 women, took oath on Sunday.

DHAKA – US embassies and consulates that were closed in the Middle East and Africa because of a terrorist threat will reopen on Sunday.

Islamabad – Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday sought to assuage feelings in India by expressing “sadness” over the recent incidents on the LoC and “loss of precious human lives” that sparked tensions between the two countries.

The BJP has said it will not support the Constitution Amendment Bill to give effect to the 2011 India-Bangladesh Boundary Agreement dashing the government’s hopes to get the measure through Parliament. The party has argued that the government has “failed”…

Top military officials of Pakistan and India on Wednesday spoke to each other on hotline to lower tension after the killing of five Indian soldiers along the Line of Control in Poonch sector in Jammu and Kashmir.

The United States told its citizens in Yemen on Tuesday to leave the country immediately due to the threat of “terrorist attacks”, the US State Department said in a statement.

(MENAFN – Arab News) Educational campaigns at the Bangladeshi consulate in Jeddah have succeeded in curbing the number of registered crimes during the past six months, according to Bangladeshi diplomatic officials.

Forty-one employees of Barisal City Corporation earlier sacked by caretaker government in 2007 joined again in job Sunday after reinstated by High Court order.

The US embassy’s announcement earlier today that it will remain closed on Sunday, August 4, is linked to a perceived terror threat from Al Qaeda, it’s been learned.

A battalion commander-level flag meeting between Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Indian Border Security Force (BSF) was held in Jaintapur Upazila on Monday.

Welcoming Sajeeb Wazed Joy’s involvement in political activities, Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Thursday said Joy has a very good record and there is nothing to talk too much about it as he comes to politics openly.   

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb Ahmed Wazed, better known as Joy, has said he will keep coming back to Pirganj, from where his father, Wazed Miah, hailed, evoking loud calls for his nomination from there.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday hosted an iftar party for civil and military officials, diplomats and judges at her official residence Ganobhaban. 

Dr Dipu Moni on Sunday said an orchestrated campaign is on in the news media against the Foreign Minister of Bangladesh.  

Apparently in response to Hefajat-e-Islam ameer Allama Ahmed Shafi’s remarks about women, Foreign Minister Dr Dipu Moni on Saturday said the progress of women cannot be hindered through the misinterpretation of religion.

The Awami League will launch a massive campaign after the Eid-ul-Fitr to highlight the achievement of its government as well as to remind the people of the ‘misrule’ of previous BNP government.

Election Commissioner Md Shah Nawaz on Sunday said the Election Commission is ready to hold the next parliamentary polls under any type of interim government.

Foreign Minister Dr Dipu Moni said here on Saturday the ruling party will find out the reasons behind defeats of the party-backed candidates in the five city corporation elections and will take proper steps to avoid its negative impact on…

The United States knows Bangladesh’s democracy is “homegrown” and so would not try imposing anything, Communications Minister Obaidul Quader said on Wednesday.

President Abdul Hamid on Sunday asked the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) to make their activities visible with a view to gaining trust and confidence of the common people of the country.

Eminent economist Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya on Saturday urged the civil society members to be more active and play their due role during the ongoing crisis of the country.

Senior BJP leaders hosted the Indian tri-colour on the ‘disputed’ Lathitila-Dumabari area on Sunday, promising to start an agitation if this stretch of borderland was transferred to Bangladesh.

Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus says the US suspended Bangladesh’s preferential trade status because buyers in that country were not convinced enough was being done to improve working conditions and industrial safety.