United News of Bangladesh

A day after returning home after nearly 17 years, BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman is set to visit the grave of his father and BNP founder late President Ziaur Rahman at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar on Friday to pay his respects. Tarique left his Gulshan Avenue residence around 2:54pm in a bus decorated in red and green colours under tight security and headed for Ziaur Rahman’s grave. He used the same bus on Thursday while travelling from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport to the public reception venue, Evercare Hospital and his Gulshan residence. He will place a wreath at the grave along with senior BNP leaders, including Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and members of the party’s Standing Committee. This will be the first time in almost 19 years that Tarique Rahman is paying tribute at his father’s grave. The last time he did so was on September 1, 2006, when he was serving as the party’s Senior Joint Secretary General, marking the BNP’s founding anniversary. Security tightened at Zia Udyan, Savar National Memorial ahead of Tarique’s visit Later in the day, Tarique is scheduled to visit the National Martyrs’ Memorial in Savar to pay tribute to the heroes of the Liberation War. On Saturday, Tarique Rahman will be formally registered as a voter. After completing the process, he will visit the grave of Osman Hadi near the Dhaka University Central Mosque. He will later go to the National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation (NITOR), popularly known as Pangu Hospital, to meet those injured in the July 2024 uprising Tarique Rahman returned to Bangladesh on Thursday morning after spending nearly 17 years abroad. The aircraft carrying him, his wife Zubaida Rahman, and their daughter Zaima Rahman entered Bangladesh’s airspace earlier in the day. His return has drawn wide public attention and strong emotions among BNP leaders, activists, and supporters across the country. Tarique Rahman returns home amid rapturous reception Tarique was greeted by a rapturous reception from hundreds of thousands of jubilant supporters, marking his homecoming as a historic and triumphant event.

A three-day ‘Digital Bangladesh Fair’ is going to commence from January 26 with the aim to make people aware of the latest developments in digital technologies in Sher-E-Bangla Nagar in the capital. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to inaugurate the fair virtually. Posts and Telecommunications division in association with ISPAB is organising the fair at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre with the theme ‘Digital Bangladesh’s connectivity to highway’. Read more: ‘Digital Fair 2020’ to take place online The concerned division’s Secretary Abu Hena Morshed Zaman told UNB that the fair aims at putting up several issues including 5G, digital technologies, necessity of the digital connectivity and its usage.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested seven members of a teen gang along with drugs and sharp weapons from Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area of the capital.

A mountaineer was killed after a micro-bus hit her bicycle on Sher-e-Bangla Nagar lake road on Friday morning.

The month-long 25th Dhaka International Trade Fair (DITF) 2020 is set to kick off at its usual venue at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar in the capital on Wednesday.