Bangladesh

The government on Thursday banned the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and its student front Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir. The Home Ministry issued a notification banning Jamaat and Shibir in the afternoon. The ban of the Islamist political party came unde clause 18 of the Anti-Terrorism Act 2009. The Awami League government has been accusing infiltration of militants from Jamaat and Chhatra Shibir ...

The United Nations has condemned the use of live fire ammunition that they have seen in Bangladesh and laid emphasis on protecting the rights to peaceful protests. It also said that they are ready to assist any government who requests help on different issues. Stéphane Dujarric, spokesperson for the UN secretary general, came up with the statement while responding to ...

Popular celebrities from different sectors in Bangladesh took to the street on Thursday to extend solidarity with the students’ nine-point demands. Defying rain, around 11am, the artists from different sections united at Farmgate in the capital with banners and festoons to stand by the students. Popular actors, filmmakers and social media personalities including Amitabh Reza, Redoan Rony, Mosharraf Karim, Siam ...

The High Court on Thursday will also not hold the hearing on the writ seeking directive to stop firing on demonstrators and to release of six coordinators from DB custody. As Justice SM Masud Hossain Dolon, the junior judge of the bench, has been on leave due to physical illness since Wednesday, the hearing will not be held. The hearing ...

HSC and equivalent examinations have been postponed till August 11 due to the situation arising out of the quota reform movement. Exams will start from August 11 in the new schedule. Dhaka Education Board Chairman Professor Tapan Kumar Sarkar told the media on Thursday. Earlier, the HSC and equivalent exams were suspended three times. First, the exam of July 18 ...

The month of mourning begins on Thursday commemorating the brutal assassination of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family members on August 15, 1975. The August 15 carnage is the ugliest chapter of the nation’s history as the self-confessed killers not only assassinated the nation’s founding father, but also killed 16 other members of ...

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP)’s additional commissioner (DB) Mohammad Harun ar Rashid has been removed. DMP Commissioner Habibur Rahman confirmed the Daily Observer about the removal on Wednesday (July 31) night. He said Harun ar Rashid was transferred to the Crimes and Operations Department at the DMP Headquarters from the Detective Branch. Mohd Ashrafuzzaman, additional commissioner (Logistics, Finance and Procurement) of ...

The government primary schools across the country will reopen on Sunday (August 4). The authorities, however, decided that the schools in 12 city corporations and all municipalities in Narsingdi district will remain shut for the time being. The primary and mass education ministry and primary education directorate have taken the decision after a meeting on Wednesday afternoon. A formal notice ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday (July 31) said the anarchists had tried to create Sri Lanka type mayhem in the country during the recent quota reform movement and they planned to topple the government. “Actually, they (the anarchists) planned to create Sri Lanka type violence and oust the government,” she said when Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Pranay Verma ...

Expressing strong resentment, Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader on Wednesday (July 31) morning left an opinion-sharing meeting with former Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leaders amid a pandemonium and slogans chanted against him. Quader hurriedly left the venue of the meeting when the former BCL leaders chanted ‘fake,’ ‘fake’ slogans against him at the party’s central office at Bangabandhu Avenue ...