Bangladesh

Awami League has been a registered party since 1972. The party may participate in elections unless the government or the judiciary imposes a ban on it, said Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) AMM Nasir Uddin on Monday. During a meeting with election officials at Chittagong Circuit House this morning, the CEC made this comment. “Since the Awami League is a registered ...

Deputy police commissioner M Tanvir Ahmed has been removed from secretariat after the fire incident. An order was issued on December 29 transferring him as DC of POM-South Division of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP). Tanvir Ahmed was in charge of the security division at the secretariat. Mohammad Billal Hossain has been appointed as the new DC of secretariat security. DC ...

A court in Dhaka on Monday placed former home minister Hasanul Haque Inu on a four-day fresh remand in a murder case of one Bahadur Hossain Monir during student-led July-August mass uprising. The court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Sharifur Rahman passed this order as police produced Inu before the court and pleaded to place him on a 10-day remand in ...

Michael Chakma, leader of the United People’s Democratic Front (UPDF), on Monday morning submitted an written complaint to the tribunal where former prime minister Sheikh Hasina has been the prime accused of her enforced disappearance. Earlier on December 18, he filed an oral complaint against nine, including Sheikh Hasina, to the office of the chief prosecutor. Then the ICT took ...

Former Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Sanjida Afrin has been temporarily suspended, according to the Ministry of Home Affairs. She is currently serving in the Armed Police Battalion (APBn). According to a notification of the ministry, Sanjida was suspended under the Government Service Rules Act. During this period, she will be attached to the Barishal Range ...

Dhaka University (DU) authorities have decided to officially declare Metro Rail pillar number 541, located near the anti-terrorism Raju Sculpture, as a “Hate-Stone.” The pillar features defaced graffiti of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, which has come to symbolize public opposition to authoritarianism and fascism. The announcement follows an incident involving the erasure of graffiti, an act that sparked outrage ...

In an oblique reference to Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has alleged that an Islamic party has occupied a bank after August 5. “Banks were looted and occupied by Awami League before August 5, while an Islamic party occupied a bank after August 5,” he told reporters after paying tributes to the graveyard of Shaheed ...

BNP Standing Committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy’s wife Jharna Roy has passed away. She was 70. She died at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital at 4:00pm on Sunday (December 29) while underwent treatment there. It was confirmed by her daughter-in-law and Dhaka District BNP general secretary Advocate Nipun Roy Chowdhury. Jharna Roy had long been suffering from various diseases, ...

Women and Children Affairs Adviser Sharmeen Soneya Murshid has underscored the need for revamping the Joyeeta Foundation with many reforms in the New Year. “Joyeeta Foundation needs many reforms. It will have to be revamped in the New Year,” she said while chairing the 24th meeting of the Board of Governors of Joyeeta Foundation at the conference room of Bangladesh ...

Journalists will be able to enter the secretariat with temporary passes from Monday (December 30), said Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology Adviser Md Nahid Islam on Sunday. “We’re not allowing anyone to enter the secretariat today (Sunday) as it is the last date of submission of initial report on the fire incident by the probe body. For this, you (journalists) ...