The 20th anniversary of the devastating August 21 grenade attack on an Awami League rally in Dhaka passed without any formal commemoration on Thursday. This marks a stark departure from previous years when the event was observed with elaborate programs across the country. The attack, which occurred in 2004 under the BNP-Jamaat alliance government, targeted Sheikh Hasina, the then leader of the opposition and later prime minister for 15 years. The assault left 24 dead, including Ivy Rahman, the Awami League’s women affairs secretary and wife of f...

The Forest Department has started taking legal action against those who have been operating pet bird farms and shops without licenses. As per the directives of Adviser for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Syeda Rizwana Hasan, the Offices of the Divisional Forest Officer (Wildlife Management and Nature Conservation Wing, Dhaka) has already issued a notification on August 20 to pet bird shop owners to obtain licenses on an urgent basis for setting up and operating pet bird shops, reports BSS. According to the notification, no farmer can produce, rear, set up farms; buy, sell, import and export any pet-birds; or no one can operate pet-birds shops without obtaining license as per Rule 4 of Pet-Birds Management Rules, 2020, said a press release of the ministry. Setting up and ...

Home Affairs Adviser to the interim government Lieutenant General (retd) Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Wednesday said people who were injured during the anti-discrimination student movement are receiving world-class care under the supervision of a number of renowned doctors at the BGB Hospital here. He made the remarks while replying to the queries of the newsmen present at Pilkhana Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) hospital premises this morning, shortly after visiting the injured BGB members and students, reports BSS. He said: "The patients at the BGB hospital are in good hands. They have been doing better than before. The hospital authorities are working sincerely to provide them with necessary treatment and care." "The Director General (DG) of the BGB has said some more patients w...

France President Emmanuel Macron has congratulated Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on his assumption as the chief adviser to the interim government of Bangladesh. "Allow me to extend my sincere congratulations to you on your appointment as Chief Adviser to the Interim Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh," he wrote in a letter to Prof Yunus. The letter was received here today. Macron said as Bangladesh now enters a period of transition, the interim government Yunus leads will have the important task of preparing the ...