Bangladesh

The body of Shaheed Sharif Osman Hadi is being taken to Dhaka university from Manik MiaAvenuefor burialafter ending his namaj-e-janaza there where thousands of people from all walks of lives took part. The janaza, administered by Hadi’s elder brother Abu Bakar Siddique,was held around 2:30PM at the South Plaza of the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban. Abu Bakar Siddique is the principal ...

Manik Mia Avenue is full to brim as thousands gathered the spot to attend the namaz-e-janaza of Inquilab Moncho spokesperson Sharif Osman Hadi. Security has been heightened as Chief Adviser, leader and activists of different political parties and general people are at the venue to attend the janaza. People were chanting various slogans including ”We will all be Hadi for ...

Dr Zubaida Rahman, wife of BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman, left Dhaka for London on Saturday morning, spending nearly two weeks by the side of party Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia. She departed around 8:48AM by a flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka. This flight will reach London’s Heathrow Airport directly via Sylhet. BNP Media ...

The body of Inquilab Moncho spokesperson Sharif Osman Hadi arrived in Dhaka on Friday evening, days after his death while undergoing treatment in Singapore, triggering widespread political unrest across the country. According to a statement from the Chief Adviser’s Press Wing, the Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight BG-585 carrying Hadi’s body landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 5:48 PM Bangladesh ...

BNP Chairperson and former prime minister Khaleda Zia, who is currently undergoing treatment at Evercare hospital in Dhaka, is now in a stable condition, her personal physician Dr AZM Zahid Hossain said on Friday. Speaking to reporters in front of Evercare Hospital on Friday afternoon, Dr Zahid; also a member of BNP Standing Committee, said Khaleda Zia’s health has remained ...

A group of unruly people set fire to the building of cultural organisation Chhayanaut in the capital’s Dhanmondi area early Friday as violence spread in the country over the death of Inqilab Moncho spokesperson Sharif Osman Hadi. “The incident took place around 2:15AM,” said Khaleda Yasmin, duty officer at the Fire Service and Civil Defence Headquarters control room. She said ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said on Friday that the country has witnessed various mob attacks for over a year, which have divided the nation. He has strongly condemned the attacks on The Daily Star, Prothom Alo, New Age Editor Nurul Kabir and other media professionals. ”Those who carried out such violence are ‘enemies of Bangladesh’.” In a ...

Angry protesters made vandalism and set on fire the offices of The Daily Star and Prothom Alo, Bangladesh’s two leading newspapers, in the capital’s Karwan Bazar late night. The unrest escalated at night over the death of Inqilab Moncho Spokesperson Sharif Osman Hadi. The protesters entered the offices breaking gate and made vandalism. At least 20 employees were initially trapped ...

Bangladesh will observe state mourning on Saturday (December 20) over the death of martyred Sharif Osman bin Hadi. Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus announced this on Thursday night during an address to the nation, just after the death of Hadi. He said that the national flag will be flown at half-mast on Saturday at all government, semi-government, and autonomous institutions, ...

The body of Sharif Osman Hadi, spokesperson of the Inqilab Moncho, will be brought home from Singapore on Friday evening. A commercial flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the body is scheduled to depart Singapore around 3:50PM (local time), Inqilab Moncho said in a post on its Facebook page in the early hours of Friday. The flight is expected to ...