Bangladesh

News Hour: The school had no government approval. The Education Ministry has ordered the Dhaka district administration to shut down the Lakehead Grammar School for patronising militancy and involvement in ‘anti-liberation’ activities. In a letter signed...

News Hour The second phase of the oral vaccination drive began today to provide an additional dose of the vaccine to children of newly arrived Rohingya population against the deadly diarrheal disease. The children are also...

News Hour The cabinet today rejoiced the UNESCO recognition of Bangabandhu’s historic 7th March speech and greeted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for the UN body’s acknowledgment. “The cabinet greeted the Prime Minister during the weekly meeting...

News Hour Program for the MISREOR partner workshop on Assessment of Effects/Changes started today (6th November) at Caritas Bangladesh Dhaka regional office located in Mirpur Pallabi. The program will run until 8th of November. The workshop...

News Hour: Bangladesh is set to join the world’s nuclear club as 32nd nation on November 30 through the first pouring of the structural concrete for installation of the country’s first nuclear reactor at Rooppur, Pabna,...

News Hour: Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday urged the parliaments of Commonwealth Parliamentary Association member countries to exert pressure on the Myanmar government to stop persecution on its Rohingya citizens and take them back from...

News Hour Since 25 August, over 607,000 Rohingya refugees have crossed the border into Bangladesh from Myanmar. Although the number of new arrivals is now slowing, people continue to arrive in the makeshift settlements of Cox’s...

News Hour: Samiun complained that five guards stripped him naked and touched his genitals while laughing. A British citizen of Bangladeshi origin, who was arrested in Dhaka in September 2014 on charges of recruiting for the...

News Hour Driven by factors including flooding, drought and a lack of employment opportunities, over 11.1 million Bangladeshis have migrated abroad for work since the 1970s. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the United States...

News Hour: Former President of Bangladesh, Abdur Rahman Biswas breathed his last at the age of 93 on Friday due to several old-age complications. He was taken to United Hospital in Dhaka after his health condition...