Author: Asian Bangla

Dhaka: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina goes to Chittagong on Wednesday on a day-long visit to award National Standard to BN Dockyard and inaugurate Bangabandhu Complex at BN Isha Kha. The Prime Minister will also address a public meeting at Patiya Model High School from where the Prime Minister will inaugurate and lay the foundation stones of 41 development projects, reports the UNB. The development projects which will be inaugurated by the prime minister are: Akhtaruzzaman Chowdhury Flyover, Chittagong Muktijodhha Sangsad Complex Building, Bridge on Kalurghat-Mansartek Highway, Academic Building of Bangladesh Mahila Samity School and College, Academic Buildings of Hazera Taju…

Major General Md Shafeenul Islam has been made new Director General (DG) of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB). The Public Administration Ministry issued a notification in this regard on Tuesday, reports the UNB. Major General Md Shafeenul Islam, who was serving as the Chairman of Bangladesh Tea Board, replaced Major General Abul Hossain as the chief of the paramilitary force. Abul Hossain was withdrawn and attached to the Armed Forces Division on March 7. Meanwhile, Major General Jahangir Al Mustahidur Rahman has been made new Chairman of Bangladesh Tea Board, according to the notification. Major General Md Shafeenul Islam had been…

Australian lawyers file private case against Myanmar leader over treatment of Rohingya while she attends summit in Sydney  Lawyers in Melbourne have filed a private prosecution application against Myanmar’s leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, who is in Australia, on charges of crimes against humanity. The private prosecution application faces significant barriers to proceeding – a universal jurisdiction prosecution in Australia requires the consent of the attorney general.Aung San Suu Kyi, who is state counsellor and de facto leader of the Myanmar government, is accused in the application of crimes against humanity for the deportation or forcible transfer of a population…

RAB director general Benazir Ahmed’s interview in Prothom Alo on 18 March was a revelation. It revealed certain mistakes. The mistakes were not of the respected Benazir Ahmed. There’s an unwritten rule to use special adjectives before the names of eminent persons, VIPs. If you violate this rule, you’ve had it. So the more the adjectives, the better it is for the persons meting out the veneration. It’s been over two ages that I’ve lived in London. I remember an MP had a letter published in the newspaper, addressing the prime minister over some mundane matter. John Major was the…

An inspector of Detective Branch (DB) of police was killed in a reported gunfight with criminals at Middle Pirerbagh in the capital’s Mirpur area on early Tuesday, reports news agency UNB. The deceased is Md Jalaluddin, inspector of Detective Branch of police. A source of DB police said tipped-off that a gang of criminals is gathering firearms, a team of DB’s Pallabi Zone conducted a drive in a three-storey building in the area around 10:30pm on Monday. At one stage of drive, criminals opened fire targeting the detectives, prompted them to retaliate, triggering a gunfight, leaving Md Jalaluddin injured with…

The BNP has appointed a British lawyer to provide legal assistance to party chairperson Khaleda Zia, who is in jail in a graft case. BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir disclosed this at a press briefing at the party’s Naya Paltan central office on Tuesday morning. The British lawyer, Lord Carlile, will extend legal assistance and advices to the legal team of Khaleda Zia, he added. “The appointment would enrich the team and bring the issue to the attention of the international quarters,” said Fakhrul when a reporter asked whether Khaleda’s legal team was not enough to deal her…

A Bangladesh Biman flight made an emrgency landing at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka Tuesday afternoon. The Dash-8 airliner took off for Syedpur around 12 noon but had to make the emrgency landing 15 minutes later due to technical glitches, a number of sources at the airport said. The 63 passengers of the flight had been waiting for the problems to be solved while the report was being filed at 2:30pm. The mobile phones of the Biman public relation officials were switched off while civil aviation authorities also denied making any comments. Just over a week ago on 12…