Bangladesh

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has said that the law enforcers and intelligence agencies will ensure tight security in all churches centering the Christmas Day. “We will deploy law enforcement agencies from early in the morning on December 24 to December 26 morning near at all churches to ensure safety and security of all,” he said after a meeting on ...

National Heart Foundation Founder and National Professor Brig (Retd) Dr Abdul Malik passed away on Tuesday morning. He was 94. He breathed his last at about 9:40am at the National Heart Foundation due to old-age complications. Professor Malik left behind wife, two sons, a daughter and a hosts of relatives and well-wisher to mourn his death. His daughter Dr Fazilatunnesa ...

A total of 253 arson attacks have been recorded till 6 am today during the blockades and hartals called by BNP, Jamaat and like-minded opposition parties since the end of October. An arson attack was reported between 6 am on December 4 till 6 am today during the second day of the latest road, rail and waterways blockade called by ...

Aspirants or banks or financial institutions will be able to lodge petitions with the Election Commission (EC) challenging returning officers’ (ROs) decisions over rejection and acceptance of nomination papers from Tuesday as the scrutiny of the papers have been completed. As the ROs today completed the scrutiny of the nomination papers submitted by aspirants to contest in the upcoming 12th ...

The ruling Awami Leaque (AL) will not hold any rally in front of Baitul Mukarram’s South Gate on December 10 as Election Commission did not gave permission for it. They will now celebrate Human Rights Day on December 10 indoors. Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader, also the Road Transport and Bridges Minister, said this to reporters on Tuesday morning ...

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 ...