Bangladesh

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, now on a three-day official visit to Saudi Arabia, performed the holy Umrah at the Holy Mosque of Masjid Al Haram in Makkah on Monday morning. The Prime Minister along with her younger sister Sheikh Rehana first performed “tawaf” around the holy Ka’aba Sharif and later walked and ran between Safa and Marwa, reports BSS. She ...

BNP Vice Chairman Shamsuzzaman Dudu was picked up by Detective Branch (DB) of police from a house in Dhaka’s Cantonment area on Sunday midnight. Around 12 midnight, a group of 15-20 plainclothes men, identifying themselves as DB, picked up Dudu from his sister’s Cantonment residence, claimed BNP chairperson’s press wing member Shamsuddin Didar. The BNP leader’s nephew Hasnat Ashraf Robin ...

Awami League candidate Golam Faruque Pinku has won the by-election to Lakshmipur-3 constituency. Pinku is the president of Lakshmipur district AL. In Lakshmipur, Golam Faruque Pinku bagged 1,20,599 votes while Jatiya Party candidate Mohammad Rakib Hossain got 3,846 votes, according to the returning officer concerned. Voting started at 8:00am in 115 centres of the constituency and ended at 4:00pm. Two ...

Awami League candidate Shahjahan Alam Saju won Sunday’s by-election to Brahmanbari-2 constituency (Sarail-Ashuganj), securing victory for his party for the first time since 1973. Saju bagged 66,314 votes, while his nearest rival, independent candidate and two-time MP Ziaul Huque Mridha, received 37,758 votes. Voting started at 8:00am at 132 centres and continued till 4:00pm. The constituency has 4,10,072 votes and ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday offered ziarat of the Rawza Mubarak of Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH) at Masjid Al-Nabawi in Madinah, Saudi Arabia. She along with her younger sister Sheikh Rehana also offered Asr prayers and Fateha at the mosque and sought divine blessings for the people of Bangladesh as well as continued peace, progress and prosperity of the ...

A total of 89 cases were filed over the incidents of violence, vandalism, and arson following BNP’s hartal and blockade from October 28 till November 4 in Dhaka. Following the cases, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested a total of 2,172 people in the capital, said DMP Media and Public Relations Department Deputy commissioner Faruque Hossen. Of the cases, 14 were ...

Former home minister and BNP vice-chairman Altaf Hossain Chowdhury has been arrested by Rapid Action Battalion (RAB). Chowdhury, also the former air force chief, was arrested as his name was there in the case filed for sabotage, vandalism and killing of police in the capital on October 28 last, said the RAB. He was arrested from Tongi area where he ...

BNP’s Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Sunday condemned the arrests of the party’s vice chairmen Barrister Shahjahan Omar, Air Vice Marshal (retd) Altaf Hossain Chowdhury, and organizing secretary (Mymensingh division) Syed Saleh Ahmed Prince as well as others. Of them, Barrister Shahjahan Omar was arrested from Dhaka late at night yesterday, Altaf from Uttara early today, and ...

Twenty-seven platoons of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) have been deployed in Dhaka and adjoining districts to maintain law and order situation as the 48-hour countrywide blockade called by the BNP, Jamaat and like-minded opposition parties began on Sunday morning. Shariful Islam, public relations officer (PRO) at BGB headquarters, confirmed the development this morning, saying that 10 more platoons of the ...

The by-elections to Brahmanbaria-2 and Lakshmipur-3 constituencies are underway peacefully, with low voter turnout, amid the countrywide blockade on Sunday Voting began at 8 am and will continue till 4 pm without any break. Though the presence of voters at polling centers was thin, with time the voter turnout will increase, authorities hoped. In Brahmanbaria-2, voters are casting their votes ...