Bangladesh

The BNP and like-minded opposition parties has called for a 48-hour nationwide hartal from 6:00am on Sunday. The hartal has been called to protest the Election Commission’s schedule for the next national election under the Awami League-led government, announced last week. The shutdown which will begin at 6:00am on Sunday and end at 6:00am on Tuesday is meant to mount ...

Awami League (AL) President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday sought doa (blessing) from the countrymen to hold fair and peaceful election, saying the government can be changed only by vote and elections. “We want the voting rights of the people to continue…and the government will be changed through votes,” she said while inaugurating selling of AL nomination forms ...

Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina formally inaugurated the sale of party’s nomination forms on Saturday through purchasing her nomination paper. On behalf of her, Gopalganj-3 seat leaders collected the nomination paper for the upcoming 12th national election. The AL chief inaugurated the nomination paper selling at the party’s central office at Bangabandhu Avenue at 10am The sale of nominations will ...

Trinamool Bangladesh National Party (Trinamool BNP) will start selling its nomination papers on Saturday among aspirant candidates for the upcoming general elections. Trinamool BNP’s nomination form sale will begin at 11am at its Topkhana road office in Dhaka, a press release said. An aspirant can collect nomination form by submitting a pay order of Tk 5,000. The interviews of aspirant ...

    Saima Wazed, Advisor to the Director General of the WHO for Mental Health and Autism and Thematic Ambassador for Vulnerability of the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) has recommended that the Commonwealth organize a dedicated climate and mental health resilient day at the first-ever Health Day to be held at the COP28 in Abu Dhabi. Ms Wazed, also the ...

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen on Friday said all parties will have to demonstrate willingness and sincerity to stop violence, noting that the election-centric violence is in a declining trend. “We will not allow anyone to obstruct the polls. We hope all parties will demonstrate sincerity and willingness to stop violence,” he told reporters after attending a function in the ...

The Cyclonic storm “Midhili” is likely to move North-Southeastwards and may cross Mongla-Payra coast near Khepupara by Friday evening. The periphery of the cyclone may start crossing the coast by noon, said a latest bulletin of the cyclone warning center in the capital on Friday. The Cyclonic storm over North-West Bay and adjoining area moved north-northeastwards on the same area ...

Four members of a family were killed when a mud wall of a house collapsed due to heavy rain in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf upazila early Friday. The incident happened around 3:00am in Panirchhara area area of Morichyaghona under Hnila union of the upazila. The deceased were Anwara Begum, 50, wife of Fakir Mohammad, a resident of that area, her son ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday said It is time for all to unite as one world and demand the end of the conflict going on in Palestine. “Here, I express my profound concern at the tragic, inhuman existence of the hapless Palestinians in the face of merciless carnage. It is time for all of us to unite as one ...

  ■ Bangla Mirror Desk ■ Najmun Nahar recently attended a conference for ‘Climate Vulnerability and Mental Health: Voice of Women’ in common wealth Office London which was organised by Bangladesh High Commission uk. This is the seventh visit of Najmun Nahar in London, she likes to visit London as the Bangladeshi community is so integrated and welcoming.   After ...