Eastern Bank PLC (EBL) has entered into an agreement with the US Department of State to collaborate on the EBL Climate Change Adaptation Award
"The use of such chemicals is not an isolated incident, and is probably driven by Russian forces' desire to dislodge Ukrainian forces from fortified positions and achieve tactical gains on the battlefield," the State Department said.
The US State Department reiterated yesterday that it supports a free and fair election in Bangladesh.
The US State Department said it was "deeply concerned" by the reports of "mass arrests of thousands of opposition members and reports of torture in prison" in Bangladesh
On November 22, Russian foreign ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova in her weekly briefing said information had come to light regarding a meeting between US Ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Haas and a high-ranking representative of the local opposition at the end of October.
How can we expect ‘rule by the people’ when people are kept uninformed?
The US state department has said that it was “heartened” that the Bangladesh government welcomed its decision to impose visa restrictions on those who undermine the democratic election process in Bangladesh.
In response to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s recent comment that it was the US that created and trained Rapid Action Battalion, the US State Department said it had ended assistance to the Rab in 2018 based on credible information of gross human rights violations.
There is no scope for repealing the sanctions against Rab, without concrete actions and accountability, United States Ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Haas said today.
State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam today said the government will ask for explanation from the US side on the recently published human rights report, noting that there are fundamental flaws in it.
The government today criticised the US report on Bangladesh's human rights practices that contained some "misinformation" collected primarily from the "anti-government propaganda machines".
Bangladesh government took limited measures to investigate and prosecute cases of extrajudicial killings and enforced
Dozens of Yemenis and Iranians who won the chance to immigrate to the United States sue the US State Department for not processing their visa applications after President Donald Trump's temporary travel ban is reinstated.
The US state department has said although the number of terrorist attacks around the world declined last year, terror incidents went up significantly in Bangladesh.
Terrorist attacks and the total number of deaths increased in Bangladesh in 2015, according to the US State Department.
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who has been living in the Ecuadorean embassy for almost four years, has gained a new companion - a pet kitten.
Four Bangladeshi young entrepreneurs received “Professional Fellows Exchange Program 2016 (April Round)” fellowship under the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of US State Department.
The US State Department is revamping its counter-violent-extremist communications efforts through a new Global Engagement Center, a State Department press release said.
China has summoned a senior US envoy in protest after Washington announced it would sell two warships to Taiwan.
