Government threat against critics living abroad is seriously misguided and likely to harm its image even more

State Minister for Planning Dr Shamsul Alam today (July 21, 2022) proposed forming a new authority – either a ministry or a division under a ministry -- to help tap the potentials of blue economy that remains untapped.

Foreign Ministry in a statement said that it has noticed that some quarters are trying to portray that the Padma Multipurpose Bridge – scheduled to be opened on June 25, 2022 – has been constructed with the assistance of foreign funds and is a part of the Belt and Road Initiative.

“About 2,000 students have registered for visa appointments at the embassy since July last year," said Raihan, a student at a German technical university.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has told the UN Resident Coordinator in Bangladesh Mia Seppo that the killing of Buet student Abrar Fahad had nothing to do with freedom of expression.

The Foreign Ministry's statement, following the mixed messages coming out of Naypyidaw after the visit of Myanmar's Union Minister U Kyaw Tint Swe to Bangladesh, that it betrayed the doubtful intention of Myanmar, has said it all.

The government has decided to appoint Sheikh Sekander Ali, as the next Bangladeshi ambassador to Libya, says a foreign ministry release.

The foreign ministry owes the home ministry Tk 3,786 crore which Bangladesh embassies and missions collected in passport and visa processing fees. The dues have accumulated over 16 years, and now the home ministry has asked the finance ministry to make the foreign ministry pay up.

A total of 27 Bangladeshi illegal migrants have been sent back home from the United States.

Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir arrives in Dhaka on a brief official visit to discus ‘bilateral and global’ issues.

United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for International Migration Peter Sutherland arrives in Dhaka on a three-day visit Tuesday.

The government has decided to appoint Rabab Fatima, currently serving as director general (East Asia and Pacific) in the foreign ministry, as Bangladesh’s next ambassador to Japan.

The Government has decided to appoint Masud Bin Momen as the next ambassador and Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations, New York, according to the Foreign Ministry announcement of today.

The Bangladesh mission in Saudi Arabia has confirmed death of 41 nationals in the Mina Hajj stampede last month.

Four Indian teachers are kidnapped in Libya, India's foreign ministry says.

9 people including 3 Bangladeshis killed in a road accident in Riyad of Saudi Arabia, foreign ministry official says.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is set to dismiss the job of its young diplomat charged with shoplifting during overseas training in Hague, Netherlands.

Bangladesh has so far evacuated 272 Bangladesh nationals, including five women and five children, with the assistance of an Indian ship.

Three Bangladeshi expatriates who were stranded in war-torn Yemen reach Djibouti from Aden yesterday by an Indian ship, a foreign ministry official says.

India names Vikas Swarup, whose novel turned into multiple Oscar-winning film “Slumdog Millionaire”, as the new spokesman of the country’s Foreign Ministry