Bangladesh

The visiting 10-person Commonwealth Expert Team (CET) on Thursday met Inspector General of Police (IGP) Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun at the Police Headquarters in Dhaka over the 12th parliamentary elections slated to be held on Sunday. The IGP informed the CET headed by its chairperson and former Prime Minister of Jamaica Bruce Golding, about the overall security of the polls, ...

An election media centre has been set up at Sonargaon Hotel in the capital to assist local and foreign journalists, and observers in collecting the results of the 12th parliamentary elections and other information. Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Habibul Awal opened the media center at Sonargaon Hotel in the city on Thursday afternoon. Election Commissioners (EC) Brig Gen Md ...

Dhaka court has set March 5 for recording the deposition of the witnesses in a sabotage case filed in 2015 against 45 BNP leaders and activists, including its senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi and Dhaka north city unit convener Amanullah Aman. January 4 was fixed for recording the deposition, however, no prosecution witness turned up before the court ...

Candidates of the 12th parliamentary elections and their supporters were passing a hectic day in their last time electioneering on Thursday as the Election Commission (EC) put a ban on campaigning over the polls from 8am Friday. The candidates, however, could continue preparatory works for polls amid ban on electioneering. The election campaigning, however, began with the allocation of the ...

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has called a countrywide hartal from Saturday morning to Monday morning, as part of their ongoing movement to boycott the upcoming election slated for January 7. BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Katie Rizvi in a virtual press briefing on Thursday said the opposition party and its allies will observe the hartal programme from Saturday 6am ...

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Thursday said and their party chief and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina does not care about visa policy or any foreign sanction. “Sheikh Hasina does not care about threat or warning from any foreign power. She is only afraid of God. She loves the people of Bangladesh,” he said while addressing an event marking ...

Awami League President Sheikh Hasina will address the nation at 7pm today ahead of the 12th national election slated for January 7. “In her address, she will announce her party’s election manifesto before the nation, said a press release signed by AL Office Secretary Barrister Biplob Barua last night. The address will be aired simultaneously by Bangladesh Television, Bangladesh Betar, ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the journalist community to remain alert against any rumor and misleading information. “Stay alert against rumors,” she said when a delegation of the Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) led by former president of BFUJ Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury, called on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the latter’s official Ganabhaban residence in Dhaka on Wednesday ...

The High Court has deferred one week the hearing on a rule regarding BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir’s bail in a case filed over attack on Chief Justice’s official residence on October 28. An HC bench of Justice Md Salim and Justice Shahed Nuruddin on Wednesday set the new date for hearing following a time petition by Fakhrul’s ...

President Mohammed Shahabuddin on Wednesday exercised his franchise through postal ballot for the upcoming 12th Jatiya Sangsad (JS) polls slated for January 7 next, urging the countrymen to fulfill their civic duty by voting. “Let’s vote ourselves and encourage others to cast vote,” the president told the journalists this noon after casting his vote at the Credential Hall of Bangabhaban, ...