US President Donald Trump’s allegation that USAID provided $29 million to an organisation owned by two persons in Bangladesh is not true, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday.

A record number of Bangladeshis applied for asylum in the European Union last year, but their acceptance rate remained very low.

A team of Bangladeshi experts and officials from the Joint River Commission with India today visited the Ganges at Farakka ahead of talks between the two countries in Kolkata for the renewal of water-sharing treaty of the trans-border river

A delegation of development and renewable energy experts, led by a former Norwegian minister, called on Professor Muhammad Yunus, chief adviser to the interim government in Bangladesh, at a state guest house in Dhaka yesterday.

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus yesterday said documenting all atrocities committed during the regime of ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina is necessary to ensure justice.

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus yesterday called for making the upcoming international conference on the Rohingya crisis a big success to bring back focus on the decades-long humanitarian tragedy and mobilise more support for the long-persecuted Myanmar minority.

BNP Standing Committee member Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan yesterday told a senior leader of the Communist Party of China (CPC) that if his party is elected to power in the next election, it will sign an agreement with China to implement the Teesta River water management project.

Bangladesh is maintaining contact with the Arakan Army (AA), which has occupied some 90 percent of Rakhine State, for the sake of protecting the country’s border and Rohingya repatriation, said Khalilur Rahman, the chief adviser’s high representative on the Rohingya issue.

He made the remark during a meeting with Zarah Bruhn, a commissioner of the German government, who called on him at the State Guest House Jamuna in Dhaka

The test run of the $12.65 billion Rooppur nuclear power plant will begin soon as Bangladesh’s landmark project is on course for a timely completion, said a Rosatom delegation yesterday.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres, in a letter to Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus, has reaffirmed his solidarity and support for the transition process under the chief adviser’s leadership.

Dismislab, an independent online verification and research platform, has said US President Donald Trump’s claim regarding the $29 million USAID funding is incorrect, and the Department of Government Efficiency’s statement is misleading.

Alexey Likhachev, Director General of Russia’s state nuclear energy corporation Rosatom, is arriving in Bangladesh tomorrow to discuss the progress of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant project with the interim government

Bangladeshi expatriates are working in the Maldives, mainly in the tourism and fishing industries.

Foreign Adviser Md Touhid Hossain yesterday said that Delhi needs to decide what kind of relationship it wants with Dhaka.

US President Donald Trump has doubled down on his outrage over USAID’s spending, accusing the agency of funnelling $29 million to prop up a “radical left communist” in Bangladesh.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres will visit Bangladesh in mid-March, said UN Special Envoy on Myanmar Julie Bishop yesterday.

Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar yesterday said Dhaka needs to “make up its mind” what kind of relationship it wants with New Delhi, stressing that the two neighbours share a special history that goes back to 1971.

A 22-member delegation from eight political parties, including leaders from BNP, its affiliated organisations, and like-minded parties, is leaving for China tonight at the invitation of China’s ruling Communist Party.

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus today urged Sweden to consider investing in social business in Bangladesh instead of providing grants as development assistance