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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Friday added six countries to the nations facing stringent travel restrictions, virtually blocking immigration from Africa’s most populous nation, Nigeria, and from Myanmar, where refugees are fleeing genocide. Beside Nigeria, varying degrees of...

The International Court of Justice on Thursday ordered Myanmar to take sweeping provisional measures to protect its Muslim Rohingya population and avoid acts that could constitute genocide. In a victory for Gambia, which filed the case accusing Myanmar of genocide, the panel of 17 judges...

Spouse and children with disabilities, if there is any, of retired public servants will get pension after their death even if the retirees had drawn the full money, the government has clarified. The Finance Division came up with the clarification in a circular dated Oct 28. In a circular on...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says the government has planned to launch health insurance scheme aiming to provide the poor with free health services. As part of the plan, the government has been implementing a pilot project in three Upazilas, she told parliament on Wednesday in response to a...

With more than thirty years of experience in university teaching, research and administration in different capacities, he joined the private university on Monday, according to a media release. Before BRAC University, Prof Chang was the inaugural chair for Institutional Development and a...

"The digital infrastructure has been developed in the last decade, now it is time to ensure the digital security, said the state minister for Information and Communication Technology. "We have a target to have at least one thousand cyber security experts by 2021." The state minister was...

It will set up the plants on a 100-acre piece of land in the industrial city and is eager to invest $400 million, officials said after the signing of the deal in Dhaka on Monday. Enam Ahmed, general manager, Bangladesh Edible Oil Limited or BEOL, a concern of Adani Wilmar, and BEZA Executive...

The first time I met Formin Akter, she wanted to talk about Helen Keller. Formin was 18. She was sitting on a plastic stool in a bamboo shelter at a refugee camp in Bangladesh. Like the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees around her, she and her family had fled a campaign of mass murder...

Newly-appointed Health and Family Welfare Minister Jahid Malek today said the government will soon start the process to extend treatment facilities for elderly people aged above 65 years free of cost. The minister said this while addressing as the chief guest at the freshers' reception...

New faces crowd cabinet of 47 members After the astonishing landslide in the 11th national parliamentary polls, the prime minister has formed a cabinet of 47 members. Twenty-four of the ministers are new to the cabinet. Hasina has brought back three members who had previously served her...

Japan, one of Bangladesh’s largest development partners, has signed the largest loan package with Bangladesh to fund six major projects, including Matarbari port development and Jamuna railway bridge construction. Other projects—two separate lines of the Dhaka Mass Rapid Transit Development...

Bangladesh have stunned India by three wickets to win the ACC Women’s Twenty20 Asia Cup in a fairytale finish in a last-ball thriller in Malaysia. By doing so, they have broken India's stranglehold on the Asia Cup as they had won each of the previous six tournaments. The women earned their...

The BAF has started a process to purchase HAL's LCH with a full armaments package and maintenance and repair plant to indigenously maintain the helicopters at the Bangabandhu Aeronautical Complex (BAC). Source - BDMilitary Link -...

The UN has awarded the 139 members of the Bangladeshi Formed Police Unit for its work with the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) to bring peace to the West African country. The medal ceremony was held at the MINUSMA’s Operational Base in the...

Cobra Unmanned Ground Vehicle is the first Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV) designed and manufactured completely in Bangladesh by technology startup SIGAS. The company informed BDMilitary.com they built the first prototype which has demonstrated numerous handling functions for defence, law...

Bangladeshi software firm Asian Information Technology Ltd has presented and launched its enterprise app in new service called ‘Gari Technology’ at the Turkey Innovation and Entrepreneurship Week Conference in Istanbul. The presentation and launch took place in the ICC-Istanbul Congress Center...

The Akij Group, one of Bangladesh's top business conglomerates, has received the all-clear from the government to invest in Malaysia. The Cabinet committee on economic affairs provisionally cleared the proposal of the Bangladeshi entrepreneur provisionally to invest abroad at a meeting on...

Bangladesh’s burgeoning drug industry is set to make its foray into Qatar market sometime next year as part of an effort to focus on the broader Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. “As regard the size of the market, Qatar is a country of 2.5 million people only, but since Qatar is the...

Walton has launched the first smartphone plant in Bangladesh aiming to produce up to 3 million handsets every year. “It’s a historic day for the country,” State Minister for Posts and Telecommunications Tarana Halim said after inaugurating the unit at Chandra in Gazipur on Thursday. “A new...

A court in Cox’s Bazar has ordered to send to jail two Myanmar journalists, who are arrested on charges of concealing identity and providing false information to Bangladesh authorities amid Rohingya crisis. Police said the law enforcers arrested the duo - Minzayar Oo and Hkun Lat - near the...