Bangladesh

Sarjis Alam, one of the coordinators of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement, remarked on Friday that the Awami League is now facing the consequences of their past actions while in power and will continue to do so in the future. He made these comments in the morning while speaking to journalists at the Amar Ekushey Hall of Dhaka University, reports UNB. ...

Home Adviser to the interim government Brig Gen (retd) Sakhawat Hossain has been rassigned from his position as the Interim Government’s Advisor for the Ministry of Home Affairs to the Ministry of Textiles and Jute. Lt Gen (retd) Jahangir Alam Chowdhury has assigned as the Advisor for Ministry of Home Affairs in replace of Brig Gen (retd) Sakhawat Hossain. The ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday said their party’s ailing Chairperson Khaleda Zia will soon be sent abroad for advanced medical treatment. “On the occasion of Madam’s (Khaleda’s) birthday, I would like to give you good news that we have decided to send Madam abroad for treatment very soon if Allah blesses her,” Fakhrul said. He made ...

Four more advisors have been sworn in to the interim government at the Bangabhaban on Friday. The oath-taking ceremony, conducted by Cabinet Secretary Md. Mahbub Hossain, took place in presence of Chief Advisor Dr. Muhammad Yunus and other advisors at 4:10 PM on Friday. The newly sworn-in advisors are Wahiduddin Mahmud, an economist who was an adviser to the 1996 ...

Former Major General Ziaul Ahsan, who was relieved of his post in the army after the fall of Sheikh Hasina, was arrested on Friday in a murder case filed with New Market police station. He was taken to the detective branch (DB) office on Mintoo Road in the capital on Friday morning. According to an official of the Dhaka Metropolitan ...

The United Nations has said they are willing to support the interim government and people of Bangladesh as required. “Regarding what you said about support for Bangladesh, I can certainly confirm that we remain willing to support the Government and people of Bangladesh as needed,” said Deputy Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General Farhan Haq while responding to a question from ...

Some videos showing misconduct by army personnel with some people have been published on various social media. An Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) media release said on Friday that such incidents are completely unexpected and undesirable, which the Bangladesh Army never supports, reports UNB. It is to be noted that the process of identifying the guilty army members is already underway. ...

Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed has formed 50 new benches for conducting judicial activities in the High Court division of the Supreme Court. The benches are scheduled to conduct regular judicial activities from August 18 (Sunday), said a circular published earlier in this regard. The list of 26 double and 24 single benches with specific jurisdiction was published on the ...

A Dhaka court has granted 10 day remand to deputy speaker Shamsul Haque Tuku, former state minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak and Dhaka University Chhatra League general secretary Tanvir Hasan Saikat each in connection with a murder case. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Rashidul Alam passed the order after they were produced before the court on Thursday afternoon. Investigation Officer of ...

Ten suspected people, who were detained by the students and protesting people from Dhanmondi-32, have been handed over to police. Students and people with sticks and pipes have been taken position at Dhanmondi-32 since Thursday morning. They are checking ID cards of passersby. They even were seen beating up people who were trying to enter the historic Dhanmondi-32. Mobile phones ...