On purchasing aircraft from European aviation giant Airbus, the Foreign Minister said Bangladesh will buy when the country’s economy allows. Asked whether the decision to purchase the aircraft was final, Hasan Mahmood said such ‘final decisions’ on purchases are not taken in the Ministry of External Affairs. Both ambassadors also handed over congratulatory letters from […]
While President Macron is the first head of state to visit a Friendship boat while in office, former US President Bill Clinton visited Friendship’s traditional malar, B613, in 2002. B 613 can be mentioned, it has the largest traditional wooden hull and sails. Still in use in the country. About Friendship’s Cultural Preservation Program Friendship […]
French President Emmanuel Macron will visit Dhaka on September 11 after the G20 summit in New Delhi. This will be the first visit to Dhaka by a French President after three decades. The then President François Mitterrand visited Bangladesh in 1990. Diplomatic sources in Dhaka and Paris on Wednesday confirmed Macron’s visit to Bangladesh. *more […]
French nun Sister Andre, the world’s oldest person, has died in France at the age of 118, her retirement home told Reuters on Tuesday. Lucille Randon, who took the name Sister Andre when she joined a Catholic charitable order in 1944, survived COVID last year.
Bangladesh, AFD sign host country agreement
Nepal’s Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the release due to age of Charles Sobhraj, a French national known as “the serpent” who police say is responsible for a series of murders in the 1970s and 1980s. Sobhraj, 78, is accused of killing more than 20 young Western backpackers across Asia, usually by drugging their food […]
