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15 August holiday scrapped

The public holiday on 15 August to mark a national mourning day has been canceled. The interim government approved the decision in an advisory council meeting at state guest house Jamuna on Tuesday. According to sources, the decision was taken on the basis of a broad consensus during the recent dialogues with political parties. The advisory coun...

DGFI gets Maj Gen Faizur new DG

Maj Gen Md Faizur Rahman has been appointed the new director general (DG) of the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI), according to a media release of the Inter Services Public Relations issued today.

Maj Gen Md Nasim Parvez was made the Commandant of Military Institute of Science and Technology while Maj Gen Abdul Motaleb Sazzad Mahmud was made the new DG of Bangladesh Ansar and VDP, it said.

Yunus offers munajat at Sayed’s grave

Interim government’s Chief Adviser Nobel Laureate Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus today visited the house of Shaheed Abu Sayed, a student of Begum Rokeya University in Rangpur (BRUR)killed in police firing during the student's quota reform movement, to console his parents. Dr Yunus also offered ziarat at Sayed's grave and talked to his family members for some times after he arrived in Babanpur village of Pirganj upazila this morning.
He handed over national flag to Sayed's parents and family members as well. Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology Adviser Md Nahid Islam and Youth and Sports Adviser Asif Mahmud Saj...

Portfolio allocated: Who gets which ministry?

The cabinet responsibility in the interim government led by Professor Dr. Muhammad Yunus has been announced, with the distribution of portfolios among the advisors. This information was released in a notification on Friday at 1 PM. According to the announcement, Professor Dr. Asif Nazrul has been assigned the Ministry of Law and Justice, Saleh Uddin the Ministry of Finance and Planning, Adilur Rahman the Ministry of Industry, Asif Mahmud Sajib Bhuiyan the Ministry of Youth and Sports, Hasan Arif the Ministry of Local Go...

Advisers pay tributes to Lib War martyrs at Savar

Newly formed interim government Chief Adviser Dr Muhammad Yunus and thirteen advisers paid homage to the martyrs of the Liberation War by placing wreaths at the National Memorial in Savar this morning. At first, Dr Yunus placed the wreath around 10am amid heavy rain and stood in solemn silence here for some time as a mark of profound respect to the memories of the martyrs of the 1971 War of Liberation. A smartly turned-out contingent drawn from Bangladesh Arm...

Why Harris picked Walz as running-mate

KEN MARTIN, the chairman of the Democratic-Farmer-Labour Party (DFL), Minnesota’s affiliate of the Democratic Party, tells a story about how the state’s governor, Tim Walz, got his start in politics. In 2004 Mr Walz was a high-school teacher in Mankato, a town of 45,000 people in the south of the state. In that year’s presidential election, he decided to take his class to a George W. Bush event. Unbeknown to him, his students had hatched a plan to tease the then president. “They all had [John] Kerry shirts on,” says Mr Martin. “They ripped t...

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