Media Reform Commission to submit report to CA today
Media Reform Commission to submit report to CA today

Media Reform Commission will submit their report to Chief Adviser Dr. Mohammad Younus on Saturday afternoon. The commission will hand over the report at 12pm at the State Guest House Jamuna, said Chief Advisers Deputy Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad Majumder on Friday. The media will be...

Reform initiative is fully homegrown, says CA’s press secretary
Reform initiative is fully homegrown, says CA’s press secretary

Chief advisers press secretary Shafiqul Alam said on Sunday that the entire reform initiative is a homegrown process and will remain so, noting that Bangladeshs friendly partners and well-wishers support the reform agenda. The reform process is fully homegrown. We are maintaining the highest...

‘Chief Adviser to visit China Mar 26, meet President Xi Mar 28’
‘Chief Adviser to visit China Mar 26, meet President Xi Mar 28’

CAs press secretary Shafiqul Alam said that chief adviser (CA) Dr Muhammad Yunus is set to visit China on 26 March and his visit will take Bangladesh-China relations to a new height, reports BSS. He shared the information with media while speaking at a press conference at Foreign Service Academy...

CA, UN chief take iftar with 100,000 Rohingyas in Ukhiya
CA, UN chief take iftar with 100,000 Rohingyas in Ukhiya

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus and United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres took Iftar with about one lakh Rohingyas at Ukhiya refugee camp in Coxs Bazar on Friday, reports BSS. While visiting Rohingya camp Guterres said that they will do everything possible to ensure...

CA inaugurates Cox's Bazar Airport project
CA inaugurates Cox's Bazar Airport project

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus has inaugurated a project at Coxs Bazar Airport and visited the Khurushkul Climate Refugee Center. The Chief Advisor, who arrived in Coxs Bazar on Friday afternoon, visited two sites of the under-construction international airport. He was briefed about the...

Yunus & Guterres arrive in Cox's Bazar
Yunus & Guterres arrive in Cox's Bazar

Chief Adviser Prof. Muhammad Yunus and UN Secretary-General António Guterres arrived in Coxs Bazar today (March 14). The flight carrying them landed at Coxs Bazar Airport around 1:00 pm, where they were warmly welcomed by Faruk-E-Azam, Adviser to the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief....

Social mobilisation needed to discourage youth smoking
Social mobilisation needed to discourage youth smoking

Chief Advisers Press Secretary Mohammad Shafiqul Alam on Wednesday stressed the need for innovative social mobilisation to prevent youth from taking up smoking, saying that raising tobacco prices alone is not enough to curb tobacco use, reports UNB. He said this while addressing a workshop on...

CA calls for quick action to recover billions in stolen money
CA calls for quick action to recover billions in stolen money

Chief Adviser Dr Muhammad Yunus on Monday called for expediting efforts to bring back billions of stolen money - both from the banking system and other means, reports UNB. Also the government plans to frame a special law to fulfill legal requirements in this regard. He made the call at an...

CA's Special Assistant Prof M Aminul Islam resigns
CA's Special Assistant Prof M Aminul Islam resigns

Professor M Aminul Islam, special assistant to the Chief Adviser in charge of the Ministry of Education, has resigned, reports UNB. He submitted his resignation to the Secretary of the Cabinet Division on Monday. He confirmed the media over the phone. Earlier, in November, the interim...

CA hopes women to move forward to build developed Bangladesh
CA hopes women to move forward to build developed Bangladesh

Chief Adviser (CA) Professor Muhammad Yunus on Friday expressed the hope that the countrys womenfolk will move forward in line with the developed world to materialize the dream of building a developed Bangladesh, reports BSS. The women of Bangladesh will move forward in line with the developed...

July uprising offers big opportunities for reforms, democracy: William B Milam
July uprising offers big opportunities for reforms, democracy: William B Milam

Former US Ambassador to Bangladesh William B Milam on Thursday lauded the interim governments reform initiatives, saying the July uprising has offered big opportunities to carry out sweeping reforms and establish true democracy in Bangladesh. Jon Danilowicz, who was a deputy ambassador of the US...

General election likely between Dec 2025 & Mar 2026, CA tells BBC
General election likely between Dec 2025 & Mar 2026, CA tells BBC

Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus said he felt dazzled when asked to take charge after long-serving prime minister Sheikh Hasina was driven from power last year. I had no idea Id be leading the government, Yunus told the BBC. I had never run a government machine before and had to get the buttons...

Sheikh Moinuddin, Faiz Ahmad appointed CA's special assistants
Sheikh Moinuddin, Faiz Ahmad appointed CA's special assistants

The government has appointed Sheikh Moinuddin and Faiz Ahmad Taiyeb as special assistants to Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus, according to a Cabinet Division notification issued on Wednesday. Sheikh Moinuddin has been given executive authority over the Ministry of Road Transport and Bridges, while...

EU to provide €68m aid for Rohingyas
EU to provide €68m aid for Rohingyas

Visiting EU Commissioner Hadja Lahbib said that the EU will provide 68 million euros this year for the Rohingya response, reports BSS. She said: The European Union is providing 68 million euros this year for the Rohingya response, including host communities in Bangladesh, and for the Myanmar...

A fugitive party trying to destablise country: CA tells BBC Bangla
A fugitive party trying to destablise country: CA tells BBC Bangla

Chief Adviser Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus has said a fugitive party is making every effort to unsettle Bangladesh, reports UNB. This risk always exists. A fugitive party has left the country, or its leadership is no longer here. They are making every effort to destabilise the situation. So, this...

State-backed robbery occurred in energy sector: Press Secretary
State-backed robbery occurred in energy sector: Press Secretary

Shafiqul Alam, Press Secretary to the Chief Adviser, has accused the energy sector of state-sponsored corruption, calling for reforms and discipline. He also discussed efforts to improve the efficiency of Chittagongs port and address embezzlement issues, emphasising the need for proper...

CA for launching 'Hajj Management Centre' to make Hajj safe and easy
CA for launching 'Hajj Management Centre' to make Hajj safe and easy

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Tuesday instructed the authorities concerned to launch the Hajj Management Centre to make the Hajj pilgrimage easy, beautiful and safe and to provide round-the-clock services for the pilgrims. He came up with this instruction at a meeting of the National...

CA mourns ex-minister Abdullah Al Noman's death
CA mourns ex-minister Abdullah Al Noman's death

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Tuesday expressed deep shock and sorrow at the death of former minister and valiant freedom fighter Abdullah Al Noman. In a condolence message, the Chief Adviser said Abdullah Al Noman was a talented leader in Bangladesh politics and he was a heroic...

CA urges Maldives to regularize undocumented Bangladeshi expats
CA urges Maldives to regularize undocumented Bangladeshi expats

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus on Tuesday urged the Maldivian government for regularizing the undocumented Bangladeshi expatriates living in the country and recruiting more workforce from Bangladesh, reports UNB. The Chief Adviser conveyed this to High Commissioner of the Maldives Shiuneen...

Chief adviser pays tribute to language martyrs
Chief adviser pays tribute to language martyrs

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus paid tribute to the martyrs of the historic Language Movement on Amar Ekushey and International Mother Language Day. At 12:12 am on Friday, he placed a wreath at the Central Shaheed Minar in the city. Arriving at the premises as the clock struck midnight, he...

Chief Adviser hands over Ekushey Padak
Chief Adviser hands over Ekushey Padak

Chief Adviser Dr Muhammad Yunus handed over the Ekushey Padak to the Bangladesh National Womens Football Team and 17 distinguished individuals on Thursday morning. The award ceremony was held at the Osmani Memorial Auditorium in the capital. The government has handed over the awards in...

Mother Language Day: CA releases commemorative postage stamp
Mother Language Day: CA releases commemorative postage stamp

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus on Wednesday unveiled a commemorative postage stamp, an inaugural envelope and a seal on the occasion of the International Mother Language Day, reports UNB. Information and Broadcasting Posts and Telecommunications Adviser Md Nahid Islam, Posts and...

High-level probe body on ICT sector soon
High-level probe body on ICT sector soon

Chief Advisers Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam on Tuesday said the interim government will soon form a high-level committee to investigate corruption and irregularities committed in the ICT sector during the deposed regime of Sheikh Hasina. Many reports on corruption in the ICT and digitalisation...

CA to open 7th National Comdeca
CA to open 7th National Comdeca

Chief Adviser Professor Muhmmad Yunus will inaugurate the 7th National Comdeca 2025 to be held at the hard point of Sirajganj town protection embankment on February 19-25, reports BSS. The Chief Adviser will open the 7-day Comdeca virtually from Dhaka, Chief Advisers Deputy Press Secretary Abul...

Strictly maintain law and order, strengthen market monitoring, CA to DCs
Strictly maintain law and order, strengthen market monitoring, CA to DCs

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus on Sunday asked the deputy commissioners (DCs) to strictly maintain law and order and strengthen market monitoring in the country, reports BSS. Maintaining the countrys law and order is the top priority of the government, so the DCs should not fail in any way to...

No chance to fail over reforms: Chief Adviser
No chance to fail over reforms: Chief Adviser

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus said if reforms could not be brought in the state structure, all efforts of the interim government will fall in flat. We have no chance to fail (over reforms). We dont want to fail, he told the first meeting of the National Consensus Commission with the...

CA to open 3-day DC Conference tomorrow
CA to open 3-day DC Conference tomorrow

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus will inaugurate a three-day Deputy Commissioners (DC) Conference tomorrow (February 16). The conference is scheduled to be inaugurated by the Chief Adviser at 10:30 am in the Shapla Hall of the Chief Advisers Office (CAO) in Tejgaon, reports BSS. After...

Chief Adviser vows to bring Hasina regime leaders to justice
Chief Adviser vows to bring Hasina regime leaders to justice

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has vowed that he would not allow any main responsible persons from the ousted Sheikh Hasina regime to escape punishment, noting that the people of Bangladesh will not forgive his administration if they fail to bring them to justice. Well bring her (Hasina)...