Bangladesh

The swearing-in ceremony of the Members of Parliament (MP) from the reserved women’s seat will be held at 9:00pm on Sunday. According to official sources, the ceremony will mark the formal assumption of office by the newly nominated lawmaker. Further details regarding the venue and presiding authority are expected to be announced in due course.

The Election Commission (EC) has declared the nomination of Nusrat Tabassum from the National Citizen Party (NCP) valid for a reserved women’s seat. The information was confirmed on Saturday (2 May) by the party’s Joint Member Secretary and Office Cell Secretary, Saleh Uddin Sifat. He said the Chief Returning Officer has validated Nusrat Tabassum’s nomination for the reserved seat. An ...

Electricity generation has resumed at Unit 1 of the Barapukuria Thermal Power Plant following a six-day shutdown. The unit is currently supplying around 55–60 megawatts of electricity to the national grid, offering some relief from load-shedding in the northern region. Chief Engineer Abu Bakkar Siddique said the unit resumed production at 10:00pm on Friday after necessary repairs. The plant, which ...

Social Welfare and Women and Children Affairs Minister AZM Zahid Hossain on Friday said the teachings of Gautama Buddha remain highly relevant and timely in today’s world. “The core philosophy of Buddha’s life is to coexist through non-violence, equality, friendship, compassion and empathy. By following this philosophy, it is possible to eliminate war, conflict and unrest from the world,” he ...

The Leader of the Opposition and Ameer of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, Dr Shafiqur Rahman, has said his party will continue its struggle for workers’ rights both inside and outside parliament. He made the remarks while addressing a workers’ rally as chief guest at the south gate of the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque on Thursday (1 May) in the capital, marking International ...

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has announced that factories which were shut down in recent years will be gradually reopened to restore employment and boost the economy. “We have already taken initiatives to restart industrial units that were closed over the past years,” he said while addressing a May Day workers’ rally in front of the BNP central office in Nayapaltan ...

The Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has changed a lot since the Liberation War of 1971 and can no longer be equated with the old Islamic party, said the party’s Secretary General Mia Golam Parwar on Friday. Since the war, many debates have been raised over Jamaat’s position in the middle of the 1971 political storm, but the party leadership has revised the ...

Jamaat-e-Islami has announced DUCSU Vice President Shadik Kayem as its candidate for the next Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) mayoral elections. Jamaat’s Dhaka South unit announced Shadik Kayem’s name at the unit’s conference arranged at the Institution of Diploma Engineers, Bangladesh, Kakrail Dhaka on Friday. Leaders and activists of the unit, as well as Shadik Kayem himself were present at ...

The historic May Day is being observed today in the country and elsewhere across the world in a befitting manner. The theme of the day for this year is ‘Healthy Workers, Productive Hands, A New Dawn Awaits (Sustho Sramik, Karmotho Hat, Ashbe Ebar Nobo Provat).’ The day has been being observed across the globe since 1890 commemorating the supreme sacrifices ...

Managing Director for Asia and the Pacific of the European External Action Service (EEAS) Erik Kurzweil paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister’s Foreign Affairs Adviser Humaiun Kobir. The meeting was held at the Prime Minister’s Office in Dhaka’s Tejgaon on Thursday (30 April). During the talks, the two sides discussed Bangladesh-EU bilateral relations, trade and investment, development cooperation, as ...