Bangladesh

The third phase of the sixth upazila parishad elections in 87 upazilas is underway. The voting began at 8am on Wednesday and will continue till 4pm without any break. Of the total 87 upazilas, EVMs are being used in 16 upazilas. A total of 1,196 candidates are in the electoral race against 261 posts of 87 upazila parishads. The candidates ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today asked the authorities concerned to speedily repair the damaged embankments in the coastal areas due to the recent tropical cyclone “Remal” that lashed the country. The Premier gave the directive while chairing the 10th meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) held today at the NEC Conference Room in the city’s ...

Bangladesh Securities And Exchange Commission (BSEC) has ordered to freeze all BO accounts of former Inspector General of Police (IGP) Benazir Ahmed, his wife and two daughters. Earlier on May 23 and 26, following an appeal of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge Mohammad As-Shams Jaglul Hossain ordered the seizure of the properties of the former IGP, his ...

Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina will visit cyclonic storm Remal-hit areas in Patuakhali on Thursday. AL General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader disclosed the information at a press conference at AL President Sheikh Hasina’s Dhanmondi political office in Dhaka on Tuesday.

The government is not embarrassed about former Army chief Aziz Ahmed and former IGP Benzir Ahmed issue as the government has the courage to bring them to justice, said Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader. The government didn’t give them a chance to go scot-free. The government is uncompromising on corruption, he said. He ...

A total of 300 platoons of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) have been deployed across the country to maintain law and order during the third phase of the 6th upazila parishad election to be held on Wednesday. BGB will work as a mobile and striking force to maintain peace and order in the electoral areas from May 27 to May 31. ...

Fatalities have been reported from Khulna, Satkhira, Barishal, Patuakhali, Bhola and Chattogram between Sunday night and 6:30pm on Monday (May 27), police and local administration officials have confirmed. The victims are Moneja Khatun, 55, wife of Abdul Kader from Char Umed area in Bhola’s Lalmohan upazila, Daulatkhan Upazila’s Maisha, 4, and Borhan Uddin Upazila’s Zakir, 50; Lalchand Morol, 36, son ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will visit the areas affected by the cyclone Remal. Awami League (AL) General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader informed this at a press conference at the party’s Dhanmondi office in the capital on Monday. Quader said the party leaders and workers, including the public representatives, have been directed to stand by the ...

The Election Commission has decided to suspend voting in 19 upazilas in the third phase of the upazila polls due to cyclone Remal, which made landfall in Bangladesh coast on Sunday. The EC Secretary Md Jahangir Alam told this at a press conference held in the capital on Monday. He said that the commission took decision as many electoral areas ...

Power supply to 2.22 crore consumers of the Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board (BREB), out of its total 3.58 crore, has been suspended following the landfall of cyclone Remal on Sunday. According to a top official of the BREB, these consumers are living in the areas belonging to 61 Palli Biduyt Samities (PBSs), out of a total 81. “The areas where ...