Bangladesh

Describing the BNP-Jamaat-Chhatra Dal-Shibir as militants, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said they put their claws on Bangladesh to destroy its development. “The Shibir-Chhatra Dal-BNP-Jamaat are the militants and they put their claws on us to undermine the country’s development,” she said. She made the remarks while holding a meeting with the leaders of 14-party at her official residence Ganabhaban ...

Leaders of Awami League-led 14-party alliance have agreed to ban the politics of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir for their alleged involvement in ant-state activities. “For the sake of national interest, the 14-party leaders unanimously agreed to ban politics of Jamaat-Shibir in a bid to eliminate the anti-state element,” Awami League (AL) General Secretary and Road ...

President Mohammed Shahabuddin today said the government is working tirelessly to improve the living standard of people of all religions, including those of the backward groups, to bring them into the mainstream development of the society. “The present government is working tirelessly to improve the backward people’s quality of life . . . to bring them into the mainstream of ...

The government will observe a day of national mourning on Tuesday (July 30) to honour the memory of those killed in the recent countrywide violence centering the Quota Reform Movement. The decision was taken at a cabinet meeting on Monday chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Mentionable, sabotage activities have been taken place in the country in the last few ...

The High Court has commented that ‘Don’t joke with the nation by taking people to the DB office and sitting them on the dinner table’. A bench consisting of Justice Mostafa Zaman Islam and Justice SM Masud Hossain Dolan made this comment on Monday (July 29) addressing the state side in the hearing of the writ petition filed seeking a ...

RAB arrests 334 people Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested 334 people, till Monday morning, from different parts of the country for their alleged involvement in Vandalism, arson and sabotage during the recent violence over Quota Reform Protest. Of them, 83 people were arrested in Dhaka, while the rest from outside Dhaka, said ANM Imran Khan, assistant director (ASP) of the ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said Jamaat-Shibir terrorists initially maintained low profile intruding in-guise into the quota reform movement “but afterwards they appeared dangerously in the front cashing in on the movement”. She said this while Spanish Ambassador to Bangladesh Gabriel Maria Sistiaga Ochoa de Chinchetru called on her at her official residence Ganabhaban. Prime Minister’s Press Secretary Md ...

Popular lyricist and actor Marzuk Russell is active on social media but has numerous fake IDs with his name. From which various misleading news including rumors are constantly being spread. As a result, he is often embarrassed. Marzuk Russell complained to DB office on Minto Road in the capital on Sunday afternoon seeking redressal of the matter. After complaining, Marzuk ...

The Anti-Discriminatory Students Movement has withdrawn its quota reform movement programme. Nahid Islam, one of the coordinators of the Anti-Discriminatory Students Movement, announced the programme through a video message following a meeting at the Detective Branch (DB) office in the capital on Sunday (July 28) night. Two more coordinators Hasnat Abdullah and Sarjis Alam were present at that time. Condemning ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday extended her condolences and support to the families of those killed during the mayhem created by “BNP-Jamaat terrorists,” leveraging the quota reform movement. Family members of Abu Sayeed, an English Department student of Begum Rokeya University in Rangpur, along with 33 other bereaved families, gathered at the Prime Minister’s official residence, Ganabhaban, in Dhaka, ...