Bangladesh

A two-day hartal, enforced by Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), began on Saturday as part of their ongoing movement to boycott the upcoming election slated for Sunday (January 7). The hartal began at 6am and will end at 6am on Monday (January 7). The 48-hour hartal has been called to facilitate the boycott of election and the non-cooperation movement for the ...

At least four people were killed after miscreants set fire on Benapole Express train in the capital’s Gopibag area on Friday night. Khandaker Al Moin, director of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) legal and media wing, confirmed the matter while speaking to reporters on the spot. The incident occurred just before the countrywide hartal, from Saturday morning to Monday morning, called ...

The ruling Awami League (AL) met with the Commonwealth and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)’s election observation team on Friday, just two days before the 12th parliamentary election. The first meeting Commonwealth team started around 8:30am at Pan Pacific Sonargaon in the capital and continued till 11am. AL General Secretary Obaidul Quader, also the road transport and bridges minister, led ...

Inspector General of Police (IGP) Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun on Friday said that the law enforcement agencies have the information about the saboteurs’ plans in creating panic among citizens on election day. The IGP said the saboteurs had planned some activities centering the upcoming 12th national elections and on election day, as part of the plan, they would create panic among ...

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its associate organizations brought out a stick procession in the capital on Friday morning, as part of their movement to boycott the January 7 elections. The procession, led by the Senior Joint Secretary General Advocate Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, marched in Karwan Bazar area calling on the people to boycott the national election. During a brief ...

India has continued to describe the January 7 election as a domestic affair of Bangladesh, while China said the next election will be a milestone for the democratic process of Bangladesh. “We have been very consistently saying that the election in Bangladesh is the domestic affair of Bangladesh,” official spokesperson at the Indian Ministry of External Affairs Randhir Jaiswal told ...

Awami League President Sheikh Hasina has urged the pro-democratic and rule of law believing political parties and institutions not to indulge in and fuel any peculiar ideas that disrupt the country’s constitutional process. “The 12th National Parliamentary Election will be held on January 7. My request to political parties and institutions that believe in democracy and the rule of law, ...

The visiting 10-person Commonwealth Expert Team (CET) on Thursday met Inspector General of Police (IGP) Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun at the Police Headquarters in Dhaka over the 12th parliamentary elections slated to be held on Sunday. The IGP informed the CET headed by its chairperson and former Prime Minister of Jamaica Bruce Golding, about the overall security of the polls, ...

An election media centre has been set up at Sonargaon Hotel in the capital to assist local and foreign journalists, and observers in collecting the results of the 12th parliamentary elections and other information. Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Habibul Awal opened the media center at Sonargaon Hotel in the city on Thursday afternoon. Election Commissioners (EC) Brig Gen Md ...

Dhaka court has set March 5 for recording the deposition of the witnesses in a sabotage case filed in 2015 against 45 BNP leaders and activists, including its senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi and Dhaka north city unit convener Amanullah Aman. January 4 was fixed for recording the deposition, however, no prosecution witness turned up before the court ...