Bangladesh

BNP central organising secretary Ruhul Quddus Talukdar Dulu and his wife Sabina Yasmin were acquitted on Sunday from a corruption case. Md Abul Kashem, Judge of Dhaka Special Judge Court-1, issued the order. Dulu’s lawyer Borhan Uddin confirmed the acquittal, saying the court found the charges unsubstantiated. The case, filed on April 19, 2007, accused the couple of concealing wealth ...

Vice-chair of the National Consensus Commission Professor Ali Riaz has urged political parties to demonstrate greater flexibility and compromise to help ease the finalisation of the July Charter. “This dialogue has given political parties an opportunity to come closer. We have observed this progress.” Riaz made the request during inaugural speech of Sunday’s session between political parties and the Commission ...

Police used batons, water cannon and sound grenades to disperse job aspirants registered under the 17th batch of the Non-Government Teachers’ Registration and Certification Authority (NTRCA) as they blocked the Secretariat road on Sunday. The clash broke out around 11AM in front of the Jatiya Press Club when the demonstrators gathered there and started protest blocking the road. For this, ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir met Ambassador Tracey Ann Jacobson, Charge d’Affaires at the US Embassy in Dhaka, on Sunday. The hour-long meeting, which began around 10AM, was held at the BNP Chairperson’s office in Gulshan. They have discussed various issues, including US increased tariffs and next national elections, BNP Media Cell Member Sayrul Kabir Khan confirmed. BNP ...

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has filed a case against 19 individuals, including the CECs of the 10th, 11th and 12th parliamentary elections. It also appealed for legal action against the Chief Election Commissioner and election commissioners who conducted the 2014, 2018 and 2024 polls. A BNP delegation submitted the application, signed by the party Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has praised the interim government for its initiatives during a time of political transition, saying that their work is setting a positive example for the nation. “The interim government has started working, and undoubtedly they have done some commendable work. They are showing us the way forward,” Fakhrul remarked during a program organized ...

“Where child labour exists, economic morality cannot,” said Sharmin S Murshid, Advisor to the Ministry of Social Welfare and the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs, calling for urgent, united action to eliminate child labour from all spheres of society. Speaking as the chief guest at a shadow parliament competition held at the Bangladesh Film Development Corporation (BFDC) on Saturday, ...

The Press Wing of Chief Adviser has strongly rejected a series of articles by Turkish journalist Uzay Bulut, accusing her of spreading false and Islamophobic narratives about Bangladesh. In an official statement published Friday on its verified Facebook page, “CA Press Wing Facts,” the government described Bulut’s reporting as a deliberate distortion of facts aimed at maligning the country’s interim ...

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Professor Mia Golam Porwar has strongly warned that any national election held without structural reforms will be unacceptable and may give rise to another fascist regime in the country. “Going to elections without reform will not bring national salvation—it will only give birth to another form of fascism,” he said while addressing a Rokon Education Camp ...

Protesting United International University (UIU) students have threatened to observe ‘Dhaka blockade’ on Sunday if their demands are not met by Saturday. Commuters have suffered a lot as the students blocked Natun Bazar in the capital from 8:30AM on Saturday to press home their five-point demands. The demands include unconditionally withdrawing the expulsion order of those who were expelled due ...