Bangladesh

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday (July 25) alleged that leaders and workers of the opposition political parties including the BNP were being arrested constantly over the last couple of days. Strongly protesting and condemning the arrest, he issued a statement on Thursday. In his statement, Mirza Fakhrul has demanded to bring those before justice who were ...

Bangladesh Jatiya Party (BJP) chairman and former lawmaker Barrister Andaleeve Rahman Partho has been arrested. Partho was arrested from his Gulshan residence in the capital at about 1AM on Thursday, said Detective Branch (DB) Chief Md Harun-Or-Rashid. He added, Andaleeve Rahman was arrested on charge of inciting violence during the Quota Reform Movement. He was produced before a court at ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday morning visited the vandalised metro rail station at Mirpur 10. She inspected different parts of the station which was totally devastated in the recent mayhem centering the student movement for reformation of quota in public service. Senior officials of the Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL) briefed the PM regarding the destruction and the ...

Ekushey Padak and Bangla Academy Award-winning linguist, educationist and essayist Prof Dr Mahbubul Haque passed away at Combined Military Hospital (CMH) early Thursday. He breathed his last around 1:45am while undergoing treatment at the hospital in Dhaka. He had been suffering from heart and kidney diseases for a long time, said Prokash Das Gupta, assistant professor of Bangla Department at ...

The postponed Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations will be held after August 11. Prof Tapan Kumar Sarkar, chief of the Inter-Education Board Coordination Committee and chairman of Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Dhaka, confirmed this on Thursday morning. He said all postponed examinations under nine general education boards, technical and madrasa boards will be held after August ...

The quota protestors are likely to announce fresh programmes on Thursday as the 48-hour ultimatum to fulfill their four-point demand ends tomorrow. The protestors said that they will speak to the mediamen after the ultimatum period. Earlier on Tuesday, four co-coordinators of the quota reform movement at a press conference in Dhaka Reporter’s Unit, rejected the government circular allocating the ...

Demanding not to spare any of the perpetrators involved in  the countrywide havoc and atrocities, editors and senior journalists have raised questions whether there were any failure of execution of the intelligence report to thwart the destructive mayhem unleashed by the BNP-Jamaat in-guise of quota reform movement. They also put emphasis on strengthening Awami League as a political party and ...

Dr M Harun-Ur-Rashid Askari, a former vice-chancellor of Islamic University in Kushtia, took over as the director general of Bangla Academy on Wednesday, reports UNB. The government appointed him to the post for the next three years on July 18. He was replaced by Nurul Huda as his tenure came to an end. The officials of the Bangla Academy, however, ...

Dhaka Elevated Expressway will remain closed until the curfew is completely lifted by the government. Expressway management company First Dhaka Elevated Expressway Company Ltd (FDEE) stated it on Wednesday. According to the FDEE, the decision was taken in the wake of torching two toll booths on the expressway during the recent violence over the quota reform movement.  

The ruling Awami League has become detached from people, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said. He made the remark while speaking at a press conference at the party chairperson’s political office at Gulshan in the capital on Wednesday afternoon. At that time, Mirza Fakhrul said: “The present Awami League doesn’t have any similarity with the previous Awami ...