Bangladesh

Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader started his election campaign in his constituency Noakhali-5 on Friday. The Awami League-nominated candidate started his election campaign after offering ziarat to the graves of his parents at Miah Bari family graveyard in Bara Rajapur village under Basurhat Municipality of Companiganj upazila. His younger brother Abdul Quader Mirza, mayor of Basurhat Municipality and ...

The Dhaka Metro Rail will be fully operational by next month, January, after two stations that are currently under construction are opened. A total of 14 stations out of 16 between Uttara and Motijheel have already been opened, while the construction works of Shahbagh and Karwan Bazar stations are still ongoing. MAN Siddique, managing director of Dhaka Mass Transit Company, ...

Members of the Bangladesh Army will be deployed across the country on 29 December for the next 13 days, to help the civil administration hold a free and fair election. The home ministry issued a notification in this regard on Friday, saying the army men will carry out their duties, alongside other law enforcement agencies. The ministry also noted that ...

National Security Intelligence (NSI) and Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), in a joint operation, have arrested nine persons at the airport railway station of the capital over vandalizing railway lines and trains and subversive activities. In a press conference at the capital’s airport railway station on Thursday night, RAB-1 commander Lieutenant Colonel Muhammad Mostak Ahmed said they were arrested by raiding ...

BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Advocate Ruhul Kabir Rizvi conducted a mass campaign and distributed leaflets at Uttara in the capital on Friday morning and called upon the countrymen to boycott the upcoming national polls scheduled for 7 January. He distributed the leaflets in the kitchen market of Sector 11, Uttara in support of party’s non-cooperation programme. The BNP leader ...

Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked her party men to work for ensuring a free, fair and peaceful national election on January 7 so that none can raise any question about it. She also reiterated her call to vote for “Boat” for continuation of the development. “You will work for holding the next general election in ...

The 43rd BCS result aspirants have formed a human chain and staged a sit-in programme in front of the Bangladesh Public Service Commission (BPSC) demanding the re-publication of the non-cadre circular of 43rd BCS increasing the number of non-cadre posts. They held the program in front of the BPSC in Agargaon in the capital on Thursday. More than 200 job ...

BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Thursday said that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina threatened the opposition using the language of terrorists when she kicked off her campaign for the January 7 election in Sylhet a day before, reports UNB. Terming the upcoming elections lopsided and dummy, Rizvi said that the people would not go to polling stations ...

With the assistance of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), 140 more Bangladeshi nationals have been repatriated. They arrived at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka around 6:30 am, Thursday by a flight of Libyan private airline Buraq Air, said a foreign ministry press release. It said a total of 113 individuals, who were affected by floods in Derna city ...

The Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations of 2024 will begin on February 15. Dhaka Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board chairman Prof Tapan Kumar Sarkar confirmed the matter on Thursday. The schedule of the examinations in the bellow: