UN and its partners, in close coordination with Bangladesh government, yesterday appealed for $710.5 million to meet the most critical needs of Rohingyas in Cox’s Bazar and Bhasan Char, as well as local host communities.

Bangladesh and US are opening new chapters of strategic cooperation as the two countries celebrate the enduring friendship, Finance and Planning Minister Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury said yesterday.

A six-member Bangladesh delegation has reached Kolkata for talks and a visit to the Farakka flow measurement site

Both sides pledge cooperation in ICT, AI and industrial training

CMP officials say an unnatural death case will be filed, and the body will be handed over to Indian mission officials after autopsy

Pledge deeper cooperation on trade, defence, Rohingya crisis and democracy

The Arakan Army, an ethnic armed group in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, committed grave violations of the laws of war amounting to war crimes when it killed and wounded hundreds of Rohingya Muslims and torched their village in 2024, according to a Human Rights Watch report published yesterday.

BNP leader warns failure to renew Farakka Treaty could create serious concerns for the country

Adviser Kobir raises Dhaka’s BRICS ambitions as both sides push for deeper Global South cooperation

Bangladesh and the US have formally signed a memorandum of understanding on strategic cooperation in the energy sector, aiming to enhance Bangladesh’s long-term energy security.

State Minister Shama Obaed Islam meets UN Assistant Secretary‑General in New York

Agreement aims to strengthen Bangladesh’s long-term energy security through diversified sourcing, knowledge exchange

Additional fuel requests from Bangladesh met, says MEA spokesperson

The government is reviewing the trade agreement signed with the US instead of moving immediately towards cancellation, said Zahed Ur Rahman, the prime minister’s information and broadcasting adviser.

Feasibility study required before financing decision, officials note

China’s Exim Bank has expressed interest in financing the Teesta river management project, Prime Minister’s Foreign Affairs Adviser Humaiun Kobir said yesterday.

Bangladesh’s relations with India are guided by ties with New Delhi on the basis of sovereign equality, not political changes in any Indian state, he says

The just-concluded local elections in Britain have shaken the UK’s political landscape, weakening the ruling Labour Party, fuelling the rise of the right-wing Reform UK,

Three officials will visit South Korea from May 29 to June 5

Bangladesh and Pakistan yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding to strengthen bilateral cooperation in preventing drug trafficking, narcotics abuse, and related money-laundering activities.