Bangladesh

Former Justice of the High Court Division Md AKM Abdul Hakim has been appointed as the chairman of the Bangladesh Press Council (BPC) for a three-year term on a contractual basis. The Ministry of Public Administration issued a notification on Wednesday in this regard. Under the provisions of the Press Council Act, 1974, Abdul Hakim is required to relinquish any ...

BNP has expressed deep concerns to Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus over some recent untoward incidents and called for immediate action to address the issues. At the same time, the party demanded announcement of an election roadmap on completion of reforms as quickly as possible. A five-member BNP delegation, led by its Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, met the ...

Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has detained two employees of BG Press on charges of leaking questions for the Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) examination. The arrestees,are Md Majnu Mia, 59, a porter at BG Press, and Md Akram Hossain, 47, a binder, were apprehended during separate operations. Majnu Mia was arrested from Shewrapara in Mirpur on Tuesday night, while Akram Hossain ...

Hasnat Abdullah and Sarjis Alam, leaders of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement, were involved in a road accident on way back to Dhaka on Wednesday evening. The incident occurred around 7:30 PM at Haji Rastar Mor in Chunati union on the Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar highway as they were returning from a gravesite visit. Earlier in the day, Hasnat Abdullah and Sarjis Alam ...

BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman and seven others were acquitted on Wednesday (November 27) in a Tk 10.31 crore extortion case filed by Abdul Monem Limited, a contracting company. Dhaka’s Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sanaullah accepted the final police report which recommended acquitting all of them from the charges. The others acquitted are Giasuddin Al Mamun, Obaidullah Khandaker, Kamruzzaman, Engineer ...

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia went to the US Embassy in the capital on Wednesday afternoon to give her fingerprints for completing her visa application process. She left her Gulshan office for the US Embassy at 2:25PM, said the party media wing member Shayrul Kabir Khan. Khaleda’s personal doctor AZM Jahid Hossain, organising secretary Shama Obaed accompanied her. BNP sources said ...

Former superintendent of police (SP) Babul Akhter, one of the main accused in his wife Mahmuda Khanam Mitu murder case, got bail on Wednesday. The High Court bench of Justice Md Atoar Rahman and Justice Ali Reza granted him the bail after a hearing. Now, Babul Akhter has no legal bar to walk out of jail. Advocate Shishir Monir was ...

Foreign adviser Md Touhid Hossain has called upon world leaders for fostering dialogue, leveraging AI responsibly, and ensuring justice, equality, and sustainability for all civilizations. He made the call when addressed the 10th Global Forum of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) Group of Friends High-Level Meeting in Cascais, Portugal, a foreign ministry’s press release said on Wednesday. With ...

Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh has filed a complain at International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) against 44 people, including deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina for their alleged involvement in the mass killings of activists of the organisation during its protest rally at Shapla Chattar, Motijheel in Dhaka on May 5, 2013. The other accused are the then home minister Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir, then state ...

Information and Broadcasting Adviser Nahid Islam has called on the media and journalists to offer constructive criticism to help the government improve its performance. Such feedback would be valuable for refining government policies, he said during an exchange of views with leaders of the Dhaka Reporters’ Unity at the Secretariat on Tuesday. “We welcome constructive criticism. The government remains open ...