Bangladesh

The ruling Awami League has finalised the nomination of its candidates in four divisions of the country so far to take part in the upcoming parliamentary elections. Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader disclosed it on Friday. Quader, who is also the member-secretary of Awami League Election Conducting Committee, also said the candidates of ‘Boat’ election symbol in 300 constituencies ...

Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen had a bilateral meeting with his Indian counterpart Vinay Kwatra at Hydrabad House in New Delhi on Friday. This was the second Foreign Office Consultations between Bangladesh and India this year. The first one was held in February in Dhaka. At the Foreign Office Consultations, the two countries usually discuss all the major issues of ...

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has expelled its two leaders for their alleged involvement in anti-organisational activities. The expelled leaders are Matiur Rahman Montu, a BNP national executive committee member and former General Secretary of Rajshahi District BNP, and Dewan Nazim Uddin Manju, president of Dhaka Dhamrai Municipality unit BNP. The party informed this through a press statement, signed by ...

A delegation of top 14 leaders of nine political parties met Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her official Ganabhaban residence in the capital on Thursday evening, ahead of the 12th parliamentary election slated for January 7. During the meeting, they discussed about the overall situation related to holding the upcoming national elections, according to an official release of the Prime ...

Cricketer Shakib Al Hasan has met Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader ahead of the upcoming 12th parliamentary election. He met Quader at the room of the party’s office secretary at the Awami League president’s political office at Dhanmondi in the capital at about 6:00pm. Shakib went to the AL president’s political office at 6:00pm and left at 6:50pm. However, ...

A Dhaka court has sentenced 75 leaders and activists of BNP to 30 months’ rigorous imprisonment each in a sabotage case filed in 2013. SM Jahangir Hossain, former president of Dhaka North Juba Dal unit, is among the convicts. Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Md Hasibul Haque passed the order in presence of Jahangir Hossain and two others, now in ...

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has called a fresh 48-hour nationwide blockade for Sunday and Monday. BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi announced the seventh round of blockade of road-rail-waterway through a virtual press briefing on Thursday afternoon, on the last day of ongoing two-day blockade . The fresh blockade will be enforced from 6am Sunday (November 26) to ...

The nomination for Rajshahi and Rangpur divisions for the upcoming Jatiya Sangsad election has been finalised. The list of ‘Boat’ symbol candidates for 69 constituencies have been finalised at a Awami League Parliamentary Nomination Board’s meeting held on Thursday. “Several sitting lawmakers have been dropped. The names of the candidates will be announced on November 25,” said Awami League General ...

Representatives of a British-Bangladesh think tank group has sought for extending cooperation between the United Kingdom and Bangladesh to prevent the latest violence in Bangladesh. The group made their appeal while handing over a memorandum to British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Sunday (Nov 20), reports UNB. The UK-based ‘study circle’ led by its coordinator Jamal Ahmed Khan, along with ...

Prime Minister and Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina on Thursday attended her party’s parliamentary nomination board meeting ahead of the 12th national election slated for January 7 next. The meeting has started at 10am at the office of Dhaka district AL unit in Tejgaon area here to finalise party’s candidates of Rajshahi, Khulna and Rangpur divisions to be participated ...