The interim government, led by Prof Muhammad Yunus, is getting expanded with new faces.
The swearing-in ceremony of the new advisers will be held at 4pm on Friday at Bangabhaban.
It could not be known who are going to take oath on Friday.
On July 8, Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus took the oath of office as head of Bangladesh's interim government after an uprising prompted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to step down and flee to India.
After nearly one month of suspension, intercity train services resumed across the country on Thursday.
The services resumed with the departure of the Mohanganj Express from Kamalapur rail station around 1:15 pm.
Other intercity trains have been departing as per schedule from various destinations for Dhaka.
Passengers expressed satisfaction at the full restoration of train services after the long hiatus.
The Bangladesh Railway suspended operations of passenger trains on 19 July amid the violence centring the quota reform movement.
Although operations of passenger trains resumed on a limited scale on August 1, the authorities on August 3 suspended it for August 4 and later halted the operations of all kinds of trains until further notice.
Dhaka's air quality was categorized as “unhealthy for sensitive groups” on Tuesday morning.
With an air quality index (AQI) score of 121 at 9:38am, Dhaka ranked sixth on the list of cities worldwide with the worst air quality, reports UNB.
Indonesia’s Jakarta, Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Kinshasa, and Pakistan’s Lahore occupied the first three spots on the list, with AQI scores of 163, 168, 154 and 147, respectively.
An AQI between 150 and 200 is considered “unhealthy”, AQI between 201 and 300 is said to be “very unhealthy”, while a reading of 301+ is considered “hazardous”, posing serious health risks to residents.
In Bangladesh, the AQI is based on five criteria pollutants -- Particulate Matter (PM10 and PM2.5), NO2, CO, SO2 and Ozone.
Dhaka has long been grappli...
Major General Abu Mohammad Sarwar Farid has been appointed as the director general (DG) of National Security Intelligence (NSI).
The Inter-Services Public Relations Directorate (ISPR) confirmed the matter in a press release on Tuesday.
Additionally, Major General Mohammad Asadullah Minhaz has been appointed as the commandant of the DSCSC and Major General Khandaker Md Shahidul Emran as commandant of BMA.
During the recent student-led movement demanding the government's resignation, the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) and the National Telecommunication Monitoring Centre (NTMC) executed a nationwide internet shutdown, reportedly following direct orders from then-State Minister for Posts, Telecommunications, and Information Technology, Zunaid Ahmed Palak, according to a report by Prothom Alo.
The internet shutdown, which occurred in mid-July, affected mobile and broadband services across the country, as part of the government's effort to sup...
The government is set to appoint Dr Ahsan H Mansur as the next governor of the Bangladesh Bank.
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Ahsan H Mansur is a Bangladeshi economist and director of the ...
