Bangladesh

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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, also the president of the Awami League (AL), will formally start the election campaign for her party from a rally in Sylhet scheduled to be held on December 20. AL General Secretary Obaidul Quader informed this while talking to reporters at the Dhanmondi party office in the capital on Sunday ( December10). He said, “Prime Minister ...

The Election Commission (EC) on Sunday directed the concerned ministries to transfer two police commissioners, a deputy commissioner (DC), five police supers and three officer-in-charges (OCs) as a part of holding next parliament elections in free, fair and neutral manner. “The EC ordered to transfer police commissioners of Barishal and Sylhet, deputy commissioner (DC) of Brahmanbaria and police supers of ...

The opposition BNP and like-minded parties has announced a 36-hour road-rail-waterway blockade across the country starting from Tuesday morning to protest the schedule for the next national election announced by the Election Commission (EC). The blockade will begin at 6am on Tuesday and end at 6 pm on Wednesday. It will be the 11th round of the blockade programme of ...

BNP leaders and activists along with the family members of the victims of enforced disappearance and political killings formed a human chain in front of the Jatiya Press Club in the capital, marking the international Human Rights Day on Sunday. The programme began formally with the recitation from the holy Quran around 10:55am with BNP standing committee member Selima Rahman ...

Chief Justice Obaidul Hassan has suspended half of the judicial functions at the Supreme Court’s Appellate Division on Sunday in honour of senior lawyer of the Supreme Court Barrister Mainul Hosein. As per the decision, the judicial proceedings will remain closed from 11am-1:15pm. Barrister Mainul Hosein, also former adviser to the Caretaker Government, breathed his last at Evercare Hospital in ...

BNP senior joint general secretary Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Saturday alleged that their party leaders and activists are being repressed and deprived of all facilities as prisoners, extremely violating their human rights. “The current IG Prison has verbally directed all jail authorities to deprive all the prisoners belonging to BNP of all general facilities to appease Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina,” ...

Barrister Mainul Hosein, former adviser of caretaker government, has passed away He breathed his last while undergoing treatment at Ever Care Hospital in the capital on Saturday, said Shams Mahmud, the Managing Director of Shasha Denims and a relative of Barrister Mainul. He battled cancer for the past year, Shams Mahmud added. The Business Standard Google News Keep updated, follow ...

Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader has said BNP wants to carry out terrorist activities in the name of countrywide programme on the Human Rights Day on Sunday. He made the comments at a press conference held at the political office of the party’s president at Dhanmondi in the capital on Saturday afternoon. Quader, also road transport and bridges minister, ...

The United Nations has reiterated its hope for “free, fair and credible elections” in Bangladesh. “I haven’t seen the letter, and I would just refer you to what I’ve already said extensively on the elections in Bangladesh and our hopes for a free, fair, and credible elections,” Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for the UN Secretary-General, told reporters during a regular briefing ...