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United Nations (UN) Secretary General Antonio Guterres has termed Bangladesh as a key partner of UN for the country's "significant contributions" to various UN initiatives, including peacekeeping, achieving sustainable development goals and climate adaptation.
He made the recognition at a meeting when visiting Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dr. Hasan Mahmud at the UN headquarters in New York on Thursday afternoon, a foreign ministry's press release said here.
'We consider Bangladesh an important partner of the UN as the country has made significant contributions to various UN initiatives, including international peace and security, sustainable development, and combating climate change," Guterres said.
During the meeting, the UN Secretary General expressed deep gratitude for Bangladesh's generosity towards the Rohingyas and voiced concern over the current situation in Myanmar's Rakhine state.
He praised Bangladesh's capacity to adapt to and manage the adversities of climate change.
In response to Foreign Minister Hasan's request for UN assistance to address the challenges of Bangladesh's transition from a low-income country, Guterres assured him of full support from the global organization.
"Bangladesh deserves to be rewarded, not punished, for its progress," said the US Secretary General.
Hasan thanked the Secretary General for his leadership in tackling the world's challenging issues, including the ongoing conflict in Gaza, Palestine.
He noted that the peace-loving people of the world appreciated the Secretary-General's personal presence in Rafah to avoid conflict.
The Foreign Minister urged the UN to maintain global focus on the Rohingya crisis and ensure the dignified, safe, and sustainable repatriation of the nearly 1.3 million forcibly displaced people sheltered in Bangladesh,
He also urged the UN to put its efforts more towards improving the conflict-ridden situation in Myanmar's Rakhine state.
Guterres praised Bangladesh's remarkable progress over the past decade.
Hasan highlighted that due to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's visionary and skilled leadership, Bangladesh has surpassed Pakistan in all social, economic, and humanitarian indicators and has also outpaced India in several indicators in recent years.
He mentioned that, according to IMF statistics, Bangladesh's per capita income surpassed India's in 2021.
Foreign Minister Hasan expressed gratitude for the steadfast partnership and development assistance from the UN over the past 50 years and extended a cordial invitation for Guterres to visit Bangladesh to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Bangladesh's membership in the United Nations.
The meeting was also attended by Bangladesh's Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Muhammad Abdul Muhith, along with members of the Foreign Minister's delegation and mission officials, according to the release.
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S.S.C to be held on December instead of February
For more than a century, the SSC examination started in the month of February, but in the new academic year 2026, it will start in the month of December. Also, there will be a 5-hour exam with a break for the evaluation of each subject.
On Thursday (May 23), sources connected to the new curriculum reported this information.
It is known that the school's annual and semi-annual evaluation process has been determined by the high-level committee consisting of the new curriculum in seven steps or scales. There SSC exam will be held in December instead of February.
According to sources in the Ministry of Education, the SSC exam will be based on the textbooks of class 10 in the new curriculum. The five-hour-long examination will have 65 percent weightage in the written assessment and 35 percent in the activity-based assessment. The exam procedure will be finalized by May 31. However, the name of that exam will be SSC or some other name, some decision has not been finalized. To finalize everything, the ministry has called a meeting to complete the process within this month.
Why MP Anwarul Azim killed: who involved?
Why Anwarul Azim Anar was taken to the neighboring country and killed, the law enforcers do not have a clear answer. However, Bangladesh and Indian detectives are investigating with several suspicions in front.
Azim is believed to have been killed over a conflict of sharing of huge gold smuggling proceeds. Azim and his friend contractor Akhtaruzzaman Shaheen have a joint business over two Bengal. Azim had a conflict for the sharing of money with Shaheen, the mastermind behind the murder. Apart from this, Shaheen also has a hundi business.
Besides, a young woman named Shilasti Rahman is also involved in the incident. Investigators say that Shilasti could be used as a honey trap. In the meantime, the Intelligence Department (DB) of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police has arrested and interrogated Shilasti. According to DB sources, Shilasti Rahman is the girlfriend of Aktaruzzaman Shaheen, the mastermind behind MP Anar's murder. Investigation is on to find out more about her.
According to a source in Kolkata, two men and a woman entered the flat where MP Anar was murdered on May 13. After staying for a day, a man and a woman came out of the flat. It is believed that the woman is Shilasti Rahman. She may have entered the flat with Amanullah and MP Anar on May 13.
A senior officer of DB Police said, "Shilasti Rahman is the girlfriend of Aktaruzzaman Shaheen, the main planner of MP Anar's murder." On May 13, she entered the flat with Amanullah and MP Anar. After staying a day, a man and a woman came out of the flat. Shaheen used this woman as a trap to take MP Annar to Kolkata. Because, even though Shaheen returned home on May 10 after making all plans, Shilasti stayed in Kolkata. He returned to the country by plane on May 15.
An officer in charge of the intelligence department of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police said, "Shilasti was staying on another flat of that building at the time of the murder." She was not in front. After committing the murder, she came down. Then she helped hide the body.
Shaheen used leader Akhtaruzzaman in the killing mission.
Apart from this, the detectives are investigating whether any self-interested group is involved in the secret mission of killing Azim. Jhenaidah-centric Azim's political opponents are involved in the murder plan from afar - there is talk. This information was obtained from sources related to the investigation.
Additional Commissioner of Police (Investigation) Mohammad Haroon Or Rasheed said that 'The investigation is on to find out the cause of the murder. Whether it is family or financial or because of suppressing a miscreant in the area, everything will be brought under investigation. It is a brutal murder – the investigating officers are working on it. I am in close contact with the Indian police. We are getting various important information from them. For the sake of the investigation, we cannot say everything.'
It is known that Azim's ancestral home is in Madhuganj Bazar area of Kaliganj Upazila in Jhenaidah. He is the president of Upazila Awami League. He was elected MP for three consecutive times in 2014, 2018 and 2024 from Jhenaidah-4 Constituency. However, there are many discussions and criticisms about his past activities. He is alleged to have controlled the extremists in the South and West.
His name was also in the police list as the master of arms and explosives smuggling along the border. Azim is facing charges of arms-explosives, drug and gold smuggling, extortion, tender-fixing, extortion and harboring extremists.
In 2007 BDR (now BGB) seized 12 kg 950 grams of gold from Loknathpur area of Chuadanga. The smugglers came to know that Saiful Islam, the C&F businessman, had handed over this consignment. After that he was killed. The police issued a charge sheet against 19 people including Azim in that case. However, in 2012, on the recommendation of the Ministry of Home Affairs, several people were acquitted from the cases, including bringing them into political consideration.
When the Awami League government was formed in 2009, he started getting acquitted from other cases against Azim. And in 2014, after being elected MP on the nomination of Awami League, he freed himself from most of the cases.
Locals complain that MP Azim became the owner of huge wealth through illegal business. In 1991, he got involved in gold smuggling along with Paritosh Thakur, another smuggler of Jhenaidah. He joined Awami League in 1996. After that, he took the hand of a councilor of Kaliganj municipality and got involved in arms smuggling.
MP Anar murder: What mastermind Shaheen reveals from US
Anwarul Azim Anar, MP of Jhenaidah-4 constituency, has been killed in a planned and brutal manner in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Akhteruzzaman Shaheen, a childhood friend and business partner of MP Anar, is the mastermind of the incident. However, Shaheen, who lives in the United States, denied any involvement in the murder. He also claimed that he was framed.
He made said this in a media interview on Thursday (May 23).
'I don't know anything about the killings. I wasn't there, I wasn't in India. I talked to my lawyers. They told me not to talk to anyone. If they have any evidence, ask them to show it. If the police have any evidence, they should show it. I am being called the mastermind of this incident. I have nothing to say about it.'
Regarding the allegation that you rented the flat number 56 of B-U block of Sanjiba Garden in New Town, Kolkata, where MP Anar was killed, he said, 'I will occur such offence in my flat on rent!'
When and where will Cyclone 'Remal' hit ?
The low pressure in the Bay of Bengal has intensified into a depression. It may turn into a deep depression in the evening and take the form of a cyclone.
If it strengthens further into a cyclone then it will be named Cyclone Remal, according to the BMD.
Azizur Rahman, the director of the Meteorological Department said, 'If the cyclone turns into Remal, it is likely to hit Khepupara and Sundarbans areas of Patuakhali.'
The cyclone may hit the coast of the country on Sunday (May 26) morning. The cyclone is likely to cross the coast in the evening. But it all depends on the cyclone's speed.
If the depression turns into a cyclone, its center will directly hit Bangladesh. Its strength can increase as it comes closer to the coast. Power can be lost within four to six hours of crossing the coast.
Depression may turn into a cyclone 'Remal'
The low pressure created in the Bay of Bengal has already turned into a depression. It may develop into a cyclonic storm by today (Saturday) afternoon. It may then hit the southwest coast of Bangladesh.
On Saturday (May 25) morning, the meteorologist of the Department of Meteorology Bazlur Rashid told this information to media.
He said that depression could develop into a cyclonic storm by noon or afternoon. It is then likely to hit the Bangladesh coast on Sunday (May 26) evening. Heavy to very heavy rain may occur in different parts of the country including the coastal area because of the effect of cyclone.
Meanwhile, the Meteorological Office has said that rain with gusty winds may start in different parts of the country from Saturday night. Rain will increase from Sunday. Storm surges of 5 to 10 feet are likely.
At noon yesterday, the depression was centred at 805 km southwest of Chattogram Port, 740 km southwest of Cox's Bazar Port, 765 km south of Mongla Port, and 730 km south of Payra Port.
The depression was moving toward the coast at a speed of 16 km/h and is expected to develop into a cyclone today, according to Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD).
"It may cross the Bangladesh coast between Payra and Khepupara. However, it is difficult to predict its trajectory at this time because it has not yet turned into a cyclone," According to a meteorologist of BMD.
The cyclone is likely to hit the coast of Khulna and Patuakhali along with the Sundarbans of Bangladesh. Its speed can be 120 to 130 km per hour. Meteorologists say that Remal may become a severe cyclone. However, there is no danger of a 'super cyclone'.
If the speed of wind generated by a cyclone is 62 to 88 kilometers per hour, then it is called a 'cyclone or tropical cyclone'. If the speed is 89-117 km/h, it is called 'severe cyclone'. And if the wind speed is 118 to 219 kilometers per hour, then it is called a 'hurricane speed cyclone or very severe cyclone'. A speed of 220 kmph or more is called a 'super cyclone'.
Remal: Signal No. 3 in port, warning of 10-foot spate on coast
The country's four sea ports have been asked to display warning signal number 3. Storm surges of up to 10 feet are possible during the cyclone.
State Minister for Disaster Management and Relief Mohibbur Rahman gave this information on Saturday (May 25) afternoon.
He said that the deep depression over the Bay of Bengal may turn into a cyclone by noon today. It may extend from Satkhira to Cox's Bazar.
Mohibbur Rahman also said that Chittagong, Cox's Bazar, Mongla and Payra sea ports have been asked to show warning signal number 3. Storm surges of up to 10 feet may occur during cyclone. At night, number 10 may rise to the disaster signal.
Meanwhile, according to special weather bulletin number 6, the depression over East Central Bay of Bengal and adjoining West Central Bay of Bengal is moving towards North-Northeast and staying in the same area.
The depression was located 565 km southwest of Chittagong sea port, 495 km southwest of Cox's Bazar sea port, 540 km south of Mongla sea port and 490 km south of Payra sea port at 9 am today (Saturday). It may move further northeast and intensify.
'It may cross the Bangladesh coast between Payra and Khepupara. However, it is difficult to predict its trajectory at this time because it has not yet turned into a cyclone,' According to a meteorologist of BMD.
The cyclone is likely to hit the coast of Khulna and Patuakhali along with the Sundarbans of Bangladesh. Its speed can be 120 to 130 km per hour. Meteorologists say that Remal may become a severe cyclone. However, there is no danger of a 'super cyclone'.
Shilasti Rahman: 'Honeytrap' of MP Anar's murder
A woman named Shilasti Rahman has been arrested in connection with MP Anar's mysterious murder.
It is known that, Jhenaidah-4 Constituency Member of Parliament Anwarul Azim Anar went to Kolkata, India and became a victim of planned and brutal murder.
Shilasti Rahman was staying in the flat number 56 of BU block of Sanjiba Garden, an elite residence in Newtown, Kolkata, where MP Anar was killed.
A senior official of the DB police said Shilasti Rahman is a girlfriend of MP Anar murder mastermind Akteruzzaman Shahin. Along with Amanullah Aman and MP Anar, she entered the Kolkata flat on May 13 last. Shahin used the woman as a 'honey trap' to take MP Anar from Dhaka to Kolkata. After making all the plans, Shahin returned to Dhaka on May 15 leaving Shilasti in Kolkata flat. She returned to Bangladesh on May 15."
An officer in charge of the intelligence department of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police said, "Shilasti was staying on one floor of a three-storey flat at the time of the murder." But he was not in front. After committing the murder, he came down. Then he helped hide the body. It is reported that Amanullah and Shilasti were the first to come out with a trolley of MP Anar's dismembered body.
Besides, CCTV footage from the apartment had showed Mr Anar entering the flat with a woman. The woman has already been detained by the Detective Branch (DB) of police.
