Foreign Secretary Ambassador Mohammad Jashim Uddin expressed the Government of Bangladesh’s deep concern to India’s High Commissioner Prannoy Verma at his office in the Ministry of External Affairs today, Sunday, over the recent activities of India’s Border Security Force (BSF) with Bangladesh. India border, a press release said. He stressed that such activities, especially unauthorized […]
Tauhid-Wang meeting on January 21: Issues will be given priority
According to Bangladesh Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training (BMET), 617,000 workers went abroad for employment in 2021. The next year this figure increased to more than 1.1 million (11 lakh) employees. With an increase of 200,000, the number is set to exceed 1.3 million (13 lakh) in 2023. However, last year it dropped by […]
There was speculation that the Hasina-Modi summit might not happen in June. Many aides of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had said that the New Delhi visit would happen after the Beijing visit. Many even came to the conclusion that Narendra Modi last visited Dhaka in 2021, while Sheikh Hasina came to India on a bilateral […]
Foreign Secretary Masood Bin Momen on Friday paid a courtesy call on Azerbaijan's Deputy Minister of Energy and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of COP 29 (Conference of Parties to the UNFCCC) Elnur Sultanov. During the meeting, Azerbaijan’s Deputy Minister of Energy said that as the next COP President, Azerbaijan is working to ensure better climate […]
The Ministers appreciated the growing strategic depth and dimensions of bilateral relations. He noted the similarities between Bangladesh's Indo-Pacific Outlook, the Indian Ocean Rim Association's Indo-Pacific Outlook and the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific. They reaffirmed their shared vision and willingness to work towards a region that is peaceful, stable, prosperous, inclusive and free from […]
Videos provided by Bangladeshi students showed horrific scenes of the attacks. A group of 15-20 foreign students, including Bangladeshis, were hiding in a room while one person was being brutally beaten and another was lying on the road. Local people were patrolling the city in 20-25 cars. They are using social media apps to trace […]
Referring to Eileen Laubacher's visit, a senior government official told this correspondent that the NSC mainly focuses on security issues in the context of international relations. There were talks about potential threats to regional stability due to internal conflict within Myanmar. Therefore, during the February visit, both countries expressed interest in starting a new chapter […]
Austria has offered to take skilled workers from Bangladesh and invest in our green energy, especially wind and waste2energy sectors. Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg gave this information to Foreign Minister Hassan Mahmood at a bilateral meeting in Vienna today, Monday. The two Foreign Ministers agreed to deepen bilateral relations in the areas of economic […]
Foreign Minister (FM) Hassan Mahmood MP has called on the international community to abstain from any new weapons, let alone autonomous weapons, for the sake of humanity. He underlined the importance of benevolent application of artificial intelligence in various productive sectors including agriculture, medical science, space exploration, climate change and creating employment opportunities for the […]
A staggering US$21.82 billion, which is half the total funds in the pipeline, is now held by the three major donor agencies and countries – the World Bank has US$7.66 billion; The Asian Development Bank has the highest at USD5.71 billion and Japan has the highest at USD8.25 billion. Furthermore, China and India committed to […]
Dhaka, Thimphu sign 3 new MoUs, renew 1
Although there are differences between Bangladesh and the US regarding the 12th National Parliament elections, both the countries are keen to advance their relations. US President Joe Biden wrote a letter to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expressing his desire to advance relations between the two countries. Under this, a top level delegation from America is […]
Alexander Mantitsky said, “We welcome Bangladesh’s policy of friendship to all, hatred to none. We are not at war with America. They have their own economic interests; We also have economic cooperation with Bangladesh. We hope that this meeting will not have any impact on our relationship. Sheikh Hasina will hold meetings with Ukrainian President […]
prothom hello , The economic challenge is a big challenge for the government. How will it manage this? Muniruzzaman: It does not seem that the government has the capacity to deal with the economic challenge facing it. Our two major sources of income – remittances and readymade garment exports – are facing a worrying situation. […]