Bangladesh

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday underlined cooperation among Bangladesh, Nepal and the Maldives to promote tourism for mutual benefits. “Bangladesh, Nepal and the Maldives can promote cooperation on tourism for mutual benefits,” she told outgoing Maldives High Commissioner to Bangladesh Shiruzimath Sameer during a farewell call on her, reports UNB. PM’s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim Briefed reporters after the ...

Jatiya Party (JaPa) started selling nomination papers from Monday for the upcoming 12th National Parliamentary Election. The nomination forms are being given at the party chairman’s Banani office in the capital. The forms will be available from 10am to 4pm every day till November 23. The party will publish the list of final candidates of Jatiya Party on November 28. ...

At least sixteen arson attacks were recorded till 9am on Monday during the 48-hour hartal called by BNP, Jammat and some like-minded parties. A total of 16 vehicles were set on fire by miscreants during this time and three of those were set on fire inside Dhaka city, said Talha Bin Zashim, station officer of Fire Service and Civil Defense ...

Jagannath University (JnU) student Khadijatul Kubra was released from Kashimpur jail on bail on Monday in two separate cases filed under the Digital Security Act, after around 15 months of her arrest. Confirming the matter, Khadiza’s sister Sirajum Munira said, “We came here early in the morning. Khadiza walked out of the prison at 9am. Her semester final exam is ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday sought robust foreign investment in Bangladesh saying her government has been taking every possible measure to attract overseas investment. “We’re taking various measures as foreign investment in larger volume can come to Bangladesh,” she said, reports BSS. The premier said these while opening the two-day programme marking the 60th anniversary of the Foreign Investors ...

Counsel of the writ petitioner Barrister Tania Amir has said Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami doesn’t exist as a political party in the wake of dismissal of its appeal at the Appellate Division of Supreme Court against cancellation of registration. “So, Jamaat will not be able to carry on any kind of political activities from today. It will also not be able to ...

State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam today said that no one will be able to obstruct the national election, given the enthusiasm demonstrated by people of the country after the polls schedule was announced. “We are already in election mood. We firmly believe nobody will be able to obstruct the polls,” he said, reports UNB. The state minister ...

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Sunday dismissed Jamaat-e-Islami’s leave-to-appeal petition and upheld the High Court’s earlier verdict that declared the registration of Jamaat-e-Islami as a political party illegal. A six-member bench of the Appellate Division, led by Chief Justice Obaidul Hassan, dismissed the petition.  

A total of 235 platoons of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) have been deployed across the country to maintain law and order as the 48-hour countrywide hartal called by the BNP, Jamaat and likeminded opposition parties began this morning. Shariful Islam, public relations officer (PRO) at BGB headquarters, confirmed the development on Sunday morning. Today, on the first day of the ...

A 48-hour hartal, enforced by BNP, Jamaat and like-minded opposition parties protesting the general election schedule, began on Sunday amid some sporadic violence. This is the first hartal being observed by the opposition parties since the EC announced the polls schedule. BNP, Jamaat and other opposition parties called the hartal after they had earlier observed five countrywide blockades of roads, ...