Bangladesh

Jayiya Nagorik Party (NCP) leader and parliamentary candidate in Dhaka-8 constituency Nasiruddin Patwari demanded the expulsion of his rival, Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Standing Committee member Mirza Abbas, following an alleged physical assault at a local cultural event. Speaking at an emergency press conference in Fakirapool, Patwari appealed directly to BNP Chairman Tarique Rahman to take disciplinary action against Abbas, ...

The interim government has not taken any decision to implement the proposed new pay scale, said Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Adviser Muhammad Fouzul Kabir Khan on Tuesday. While responding reporters, the adviser said, ”The government has only received the Pay Commission’s report and has not taken any decision to enforce it.”

Election Commissioner Brigadier General Abul Fazal Md Sanaullah (retd) on Monday asserted that there would be no tolerance for disorder or misconduct at polling centres during the upcoming national election, assuring voters and political stakeholders of a secure and disciplined voting environment. Speaking at a views exchange meeting with the district law and order committee at the Chandpur Deputy Commissioner’s ...

A total of 4,05,164 Bangladeshi expatriates have already cast their votes through postal ballots for the 13th national parliamentary election and the accompanying referendum, reflecting strong participation from voters living abroad. Salim Ahmed Khan, team leader of the OCV SDI expatriate voter registration project, confirmed the figures on Monday. He said that as of noon on January 26, a total ...

National Citizen Party (NCP) Spokesperson Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain on Monday said the countrymen saw a new face of Awami League’s 17-year largely fascist rule over the past 16 months. In the 17 years till the 2024 July Uprising, people faced state-backed repression, enforced disappearances, murder, custodial torture and more. A demonstration of those atrocities was staged in the 16 ...

A Dhaka court on Monday issued arrest warrants against ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 40 others in two murder cases filed over killings during the July Uprising in 2024. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Jamsed Alam took cognisance of the charge sheets against 64 accused in the two cases involving the killings. According to the case documents involving the killing of ...

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday pledged to protect the rights of all citizens regardless of religion, assuring minority communities that there is no reason to live in fear. “I promise that BNP will always stand by you and protect your rights,” Fakhrul said while addressing an election campaign rally. “BNP will be uncompromising ...

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Monday instructed the Armed Forces to perform their duties with professionalism, neutrality, and inter-institutional coordination to ensure participatory, fear-free and fair national elections. The Chief Adviser gave the instruction at a views exchange meeting with senior officials of the Armed Forces over the upcoming 13th National Parliamentary Election and Referendum-2026 at the Helmet Auditorium ...

The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) on Sunday approved 25 development projects worth Tk45,191.27 crore including a 1,000-bed Bangladesh–China Friendship General Hospital in the northern region. Of the total project cost, Tk10,881.40 crore will be financed from government funds, Tk32,018.09 crore from project loans and Tk2,291.78 crore from the implementing agencies’ own resources. The approvals were given ...

BNP Chairman Tarique Rahman has said his party will crack down on corruption at any cost if it wins the upcoming national parliamentary elections and forms the government. Issuing a strong warning, he said there would be “no compromise on corruption or law and order”. He made the remarks on Sunday (25 January) while addressing a BNP-organised mass rally at ...