Bangladesh

The Election Commission has started a views-exchange with different law enforcement agencies and intelligences in a bid to conduct the 13th parliamentary election in free, participatory and fair manners. The meeting titled ‘views-exchange and pre-preparation meeting’ about the law and order began at 10:40AM at the Conference Room of Nirbachan Bhaban with Chief Election Commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin in the ...

Jatiya Nagorik Party (NCP) has accused the Election Commission (EC) of making arbitrary decisions after it was denied its preferred electoral symbol ‘shapla’. Speaking to reporters on Sunday following a meeting with EC Senior Secretary Akhtar Ahmed at Nirbachan Bhaban, NCP’s southern region chief organiser Hasnat Abdullah expressed deep dissatisfaction with EC’s stance. “We’ve observed that Election Commission is taking ...

In response to the disruption caused by the recent fire at Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, all charges and fees for non-scheduled additional flights will be waived for the next three days, Commerce Adviser Sheikh Bashir Uddin announced on Sunday. Speaking to reporters after visiting the airport’s fire-damaged Cargo Village, the adviser said 21 flights were either cancelled or diverted ...

Marking the 208th birth anniversary of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, the visionary founder of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), the Aligarh Old Boys’ Association of Bangladesh successfully organized “Sir Syed Day 2025” on October 17 the Gulshan Club, Dhaka. The event, presided over by Prof Dr. Rejuan Hossain Bhuiyan, President of the Aligarh Old Boys’ Association of Bangladesh, brought together AMU ...

NCP has partially cut the speech about the July warriors centering the July Charter signing, said BNP Standing Committee member Salahuddin Ahmed on Sunday. Speaking at a press conference at the BNP Chairperson’s Gulshan office, he also said he agreed with the Jamaat Ameer that no one should describe the July fighters as associates of fascist forces, and he called ...

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) on Sunday fixed October 28 for hearing a state plea challenging a High Court judgment that barred keeping death-row convicts in solitary confinement until their sentences are finalised. A three-member bench of the apex court, headed by Justice Zubayer Rahman Chowdhury, passed the order following a plea filed by Advocate Mohammad Shishir ...

MPO-listed teachers have announced to continue their movement, rejecting the government decision of increasing house rent allowance by 5 per cent of the basic salary (minimum Tk 2,000) to teachers. They started chanting slogan at Central Shaheed Minar to fulfill their three demands, including 20 per cent house rent allowance. The Finance Division issued a gazette, approving the house rent ...

Civil Aviation and Tourism Adviser Sheikh Bashir Uddin said on Saturday that the massive fire that broke out at the Cargo Village of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in Dhaka has been brought under control, and authorities are working to resume all suspended flight operations by tonight. A press release from Civil Aviation and Tourism Ministry, signed by Public Relations ...

At least 35 security personnel, including 25 Ansar members and 10 police officers, were injured while combating a major fire at the import cargo village of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Saturday afternoon. Several of the injured were hospitalized at Combined Military Hospital (CMH) and Kurmitola General Hospital. The fire erupted around 2:30 PM near Gate 8, engulfing warehouses storing ...

Jatiya Nagorik Party (NCP) Convener Nahid Islam has stated that the political leaders who signed the July National Charter 2025 have “drifted away from the July Uprising and the people who made it possible.” Speaking at a press conference at the party’s temporary office in Banglamotor on Saturday afternoon, Nahid sharply criticized BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed for reportedly labeling injured ...