Bangladesh

President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paid rich tributes to the Liberation War martyrs by placing wreaths at the National Memorial in Savar, on the outskirts of the capital, early Sunday, marking the 53rd Independence and National Day. The President first placed the wreath at the altar of the memorial followed by the Prime Minister, reports BSS. ...

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Saturday said BNP is a dalal (broker) party of Pakistan and that is why it should be resisted. He made the remark while speaking at a rally in front of AL’s Bangabandhu Avenue central office here this afternoon. Dhaka south and north units of Awami League arranged the joint rally, marking the Genocide ...

Terming the Election Commission’s letter inviting the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) to a dialogue as the “latest strategy of vote rigging,” the party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir asked, “Did anyone able to cast his ballot in the past? The Election Commission is going to the same thing again. This time, the pressure is high.” “Our neighbours ...

Prime Minister and Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina on Saturday called upon the world community including the United Nations to recognise March 25 of 1971 as the International Genocide Day. “The Pakistan occupation forces committed killings since this day (March 25, 1971). We want the 25th March to be recognised as the International Genocide Day. So, I urge the ...

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has sought more robust action to ensure safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene for all in healthcare facilities. Globally, 78 percent healthcare facilities had a basic water service and 51 percent had basic hygiene ensured in 2021, reports UNB. Around 10 percent of these facilities used by 780 million people had no sanitation. “Against this ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday urged all to work for building a golden Bangladesh free from hunger and poverty. “Let us join hands to build the Golden Bangladesh, free from hunger and poverty, by upholding the ideology of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman,” she said, UNB reports. She made the call in a recorded radio ...

Elaborate programmes have been taken to mark the Independence and National Day-2023 on March 26. The day’s programmes will begin with heralding gun salute early in the morning across the country, including the capital city Dhaka, BSS reports. President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina are scheduled to lay wreaths at the National Memorial in Savar, outskirts of ...

The nation is observing the Genocide Day on Saturday in remembrance of the brutality carried out by Pakistani Army on the unarmed Bangalees on the black night of March 25 in 1971 under the infamous “Operation Searchlight”. The Ministry of Liberation War Affairs has taken various programmes to observe the Genocide Day on March 25 at state level with due ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called upon all, including global people, to build a society based on equality and free from all kinds of discrimination and sectarianism. “We follow Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s peace policy in running the country,” she said in a message on the eve of the Genocide Day-2023. The Prime Minister said, “We ...

Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader on Friday said BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has no freedom of expression in his party’s internal politics as the party is run on the prescription of a convicted fugitive. “We understand the pain of Mirza Fakhrul Alamgir. In fact, Mirza Fakhrul has no freedom of expression in the internal politics of ...