Bangladesh

The environment ministry conducts the mobile courts on new year’s eve. This initiative was taken to prevent the use of firecrackers and sky lanterns, said Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan. “I specially requested to media to give a scoll on television in this regard. No use of fireworks or crackers today. The mobile courts will vigilance from the evening onwards.” The ...

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus on Tuesday paid rich tributes to former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who passed away last week. Prof Yunus visited the Indian High Commission in Dhaka, where he placed floral wreaths before a portrait of the late Indian leader, reports UNB. He also wrote a message of condolence in the book opened at the High ...

Both students and people from different place have started thronging at the Central Shaheed Minar in the capital to join the ‘March for Unity’ programme, called by the Anti-discrimination Student Movement. Several hundred of people were found already there around 10:30AM. Students, chanting various slogans against autocracy, arrived in a procession carrying banners. The stage setup activities are being going ...

The Anti-discrimination Student Movement has announced ‘March for Unity’ instead of proclamation of July revolution programme at the central Shahid Minar on Tuesday. They disclosed the decision at a press conference in capital’s Rupayan tower early Tuesday. In the written speech, Arif Shohel, member secretary of Anti-discrimination Student Movement, said the proclamation of July revolution is essential as a recognition ...

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 ...