Currentnews.com.bd State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam on Wednesday said the decision to boycott Islamabad Saarc Summit is purely Bangladesh’s own decision. “It (BD decision) has no relation with other countries’ decisions. It’ s our own decision,” he told reporters More...

Currentnews.com.bd The bodies of nine Kalyanpur militants have also been buried at Jurain graveyard in the capital as unclaimed. Anjuman-E-Mofidul Islam at noon buried the bodies, kept at the mortuary of Dhaka Medical College Hospital for last two months. The nine militants were killed during a raid More...

Currentnews.com.bd The Indian High Commission in Dhaka is going to introduce a scheme to enable Bangladeshi females to apply for Indian visa without an e-token or prior appointment on a ‘trial basis.’ The pilot scheme will be tried out from Oct 3 to 13 only at the Indian Visa Application More...

Currentnews.com.bd Noted writer Syed Shamsul Haq was laid to rest at his birthplace in Kurigram on Wednesday afternoon. The prolific author was buried adjacent to a green paddy field on the south side of main gate of Kurigram Government College at 4:30pm after the third Namaj-e-Janaza. Earlier, the body More...

Currentnews.com.bd The nation will celebrate today the 70th birthday of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, also the president of Bangladesh Awami League. On this day in 1947, Sheikh Hasina, also the eldest of the five children of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Begum Fazilatunnesa, More...

Currentnews.com.bd The 19th SAARC Summit, scheduled to be held in Islamabad in November, is set to be postponed as Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi have decided not to attend it. State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam last night confirmed that More...

Currentnews.com.bd Five women have been detained from Boalkhali upazila of Chittagong for their alleged link with militant activities. Tipped-off, law enforcers from Boalkhali Police Station detained the women from Paton Shah Mazar area in the upazilla this afternoon, said Rezaul Masud, additional superintended More...

Currentnews.com.bd Afroza Abbas, wife of BNP standing committee member Mirza Abbar, has been appointed as president of the party’s women wing Jatiyatabadi Mohila Dal. BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today approved the committee in line with the directives of the party chief Khaleda More...