A total of 363 foreigners are imprisoned or detained in different jails in Bangladesh for committing various crimes, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan told the parliament on Tuesday.
Responding to a question of lawmaker Farida Yasmin, the home minister said that out of them 212 are Indians, 114 are from Myanmar, 7 are from Pakistan and 4 are Chinese nationals.
Besides, 6 Malaysians, 6 Nigerians, and 4 Belarusians are also in jail here.
Responding to a question of lawmaker Mahbubur Rahman of Chottogram-1 constituency, the lawmaker said that 994 Rohingyas have been arrested for their involvement in criminal activities from August 2017 to May 2024.
Hamas accepts a UN resolution backing a plan to end the war with Israel in Gaza and is ready to negotiate details, a senior official of the Palestinian group said on Tuesday in what the US Secretary of State called "a hopeful sign."
Conversations on plans for Gaza after the Israel-Hamas war ends will continue on Tuesday afternoon and in the next couple of days, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in Tel Aviv after talks with Israeli leaders. "It is imperative that we have these plans."
Blinken met Israeli officials on Tuesday in a push to end the eight-month-old Israeli air and ground war against Hamas that has devastated Gaza, a day after President Joe Biden proposal for a truce was approved by the UN Security Council.
LALMONIRHAT: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today handed over 1,623 houses to landless and homeless families here as the gift of upcoming Eid-ul-Adha under the second stage of the fifth phase of Ashrayan-2 Prakalpa and declared the district free of landless and homeless families.
The premier handed over the homes along with ownership documents to the beneficiaries while she was distributing 18,566 houses among homeless and landless families across the country this morning through videoconferencing from her official residence Ganabhaban in Dhaka, connecting to Kaliganj upazila of Lalmonirhat, Eidgaon upazila of Coxs Bazar and Char Fashion upazila of Bhola.
Former minister Nuruzzaman Ahmed, MP, Advocate Motiar Rahman, MP, Rangpur Divisional Commissioner Md Zakir Hossain, Lalmonirhat Deputy Commissioner (DC) Mohammad Ullah and Awami League (AL) Central Working Committee Member Advocate Safura Begum were present at the Lamonirhat end.
Mayor of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Barrister Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh today said that cattle market waste and sacrificial animal waste will be disposed of separately.
“Under new work plan and in light of previous experience, the corporation, you (the authorities concerned) will only complete the ward-based waste removal activities properly. We have ensured separate manpower and vehicles for each haat (makeshift cattle market),” he said.
The mayor said these while speaking at a coordination meeting at Mayor Hanif Auditorium of Nagar Bhaban here in the participation of the ward councilors, representatives of Primary Collection Service Provider (PCSP) and related persons.