Bangladesh

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday directed the authorities concerned to take measures to restore all canals in the capital city Dhaka and its adjoining areas as well as Buriganga, Shitalakshya, Turag and Balu rivers as soon as possible. The premier issued this directive at a meeting on the presentation of the survey report and the policy decision for the ...

A Dhaka court on Monday issued an arrest warrant against BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi and 21 others for their absence during the hearing in a case filed in 2015 over political violence. Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court Additional Magistrate Tofazzal Hossain pronounced the verdict on Monday afternoon. Syed Nazrul Islam, lawyer of BNP chairperson’s advisor Amanullah ...

The High Court (HC) has granted anticipatory bail to Dhaka district unit BNP General Secretary Advocate Nipun Roy Chowdhury in eight cases filed over sabotage activities. A HC bench comprising Justice Habibul Goni and Justice Ahmed Sohel passed the order on Monday. She was granted the bail till January 11 in the cases filed with Ramna, Paltan and Keraniganj Police ...

The BNP and like-minded parties called another 48-hour fresh blockade across the country from Wednesday morning to protest the schedule for the next national election announced by the Election Commission (EC). BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi came up with the announcement at a virtual press briefing on Monday afternoon. He said the 48-hour countrywide road-rail-waterway blockade will ...

Awami League-nominated candidate from Magur-1 constituency Shakib Al Hasan has provided information on his income and expenditure by submitting an affidavit to the office of the district returning officer ahead of the upcoming 12th national elections. Shakib, captain of the Bangladesh national cricket team across all formats, showed his annual income at Tk 5,55,71,262 in the affidavit. On the other ...

The High Court set Thursday (December 7) for hearing on a bail appeal of BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in a case filed over an attack on the Chief Justice’s residence. Today was fixed for hearing on the bail appeal. But a two-member HC bench of Justice Md Salim and Justice Shahed Nuruddin set the new date. Fakhrul’s ...

Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud on Sunday handed over the ‘Asia Climate Mobility Champion Leader Award’ to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. “Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud handed over the Asia Climate Mobility Champion Leader Award to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her official residence Ganabhaban this morning,” Prime Minister’s Press Secretary Ihsansul Karim told BSS. Earlier, ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday filed a bail petition to the High Court in a case filed over an attack on the chief justice’s residence. The petition was filed to a High Court bench led by Justice Md Salim, said one of Mirza Fakhrul’s lawyers Advocate Gazi Kamrul Islam Sajal. Earlier on November 22, Dhaka Metropolitan ...

Nomination paper of Bogura-4 seat candidate Ashraful Hossain Alom, also know as Hero Alom, has been cancelled for not completed the papers properly. After scrutiny, Bogura District Returning Officer Saiful Islam cancelled his candidature on Sunday (December 3). Returning officer Saiful Islam said,”Hero Alam claimed himself as independent candidate in the nomination paper, though he will contest in the Jatiya ...

President Mohammed Shahabuddin on Sunday underlined the importance of building the country’s manpower as efficient and smart to keep pace with the rapid expansion and development of ICT. “It is the prime responsibility of a government to take necessary steps to meet the hopes and aspirations of the people and nation,” he said, reports UNB. He was addressing the graduation ...