Bangladesh

Zubaida Rahman, wife of BNP’s acting chairman Tarique Rahman, visited ailing BNP Chairperson and former prime minister Khaleda Zia at Evercare Hospital in Dhaka for the second time on Saturday. She arrived at the hospital around 3:20 PM, a day after returning to Dhaka from London. On Friday, shortly after landing, Zubaida went directly to Evercare Hospital around noon to ...

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s planned journey to London for advanced treatment will remain on hold until she is medically cleared to travel by air ambulance, her personal physician Dr AZM Zahid Hossain said on Saturday. Speaking to reporters outside Evercare Hospital, Dr Zahid said Khaleda remains under close observation and her health condition will determine when she can be taken ...

Highlighting the role of law enforcers in holding a fair election, Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain said on Saturday the upcoming parliamentary polls will be a major test for law enforcement agencies. “Although there were initial challenges, the police have now organised themselves effectively. Ahead of the election, law enforcement must remain vigilant. Those defeated in the polls may ...

A new multi-party political alliance is being formed by Jatiya Party’s Anisul Islam Mahmud and Anwar Hossain Manju ahead of the parliamentary election. Ruhul Amin Hawlader, secretary general of the Anisul-led faction of the Jatiya Party, said the alliance is expected to comprise 16 parties. ”We will formally launch the coalition on the 8th of December, ” he said media ...

BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman will return home soon, everything is being prepared, said BNP Standing Committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury on Saturday. ”Tarique Rahman will return home and the party will participate in the national elections under his leadership, said Amir Khasru during briefing to reporters at a programme in the city’s Banani hotel. When asking about Dr ...

BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman has said that the uncompromising leadership and nine-year-long pro-democracy struggle of party chief Begum Khaleda Zia paved the way for the fall of autocracy on December 6 1990, a day he described as a turning point in country’s democratic history. In a post published Friday evening, December 5, on his verified Facebook page ahead of ...

The annual examinations in government primary schools across Bangladesh are set to resume on Sunday following a temporary disruption caused by ongoing teachers’ protests. The decision came after Directorate of Primary Education (DPE) issued sudden transfer orders for several teachers, raising concerns about potential disruption to students’ education. Md. Shamsuddin Masud, co-convener of Primary Teachers’ Demand Implementation Council, confirmed that ...

Jatiya Nagorik Party (NCP) on Friday urged the Election Commission to consider the illness of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia before announcing the schedule for the upcoming 13th national election, scheduled for next February. Speaking at a policy discussion organized by NCP at a Dhaka hotel on Friday evening, Nahid said, “The Election Commission (EC) will decide on the schedule. One ...

Dr Zubaida Rahman, wife of BNP’s acting chairman Tarique Rahman, visited her mother-in-law and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia at Evercare Hospital on Friday before heading to her parental home in Dhanmondi. She spent more than two and a half hours at the hospital and left around 2:40 pm. Zubaida Rahman arrived in Dhaka at around 10:45 am on a Biman ...

A total of 310 Bangladeshi nationals who had been staying illegally in Libya returned home on Friday, Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement. They arrived in Dhaka at 10 AM on a chartered flight, as part of a coordinated repatriation effort involving Bangladesh Embassy in Libya, the foreign ministry, Ministry of Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment, Libyan authorities ...