Bangladesh

Awami League President Sheikh Hasina has been elected as Leader of the House for the fourth consecutive time. After the oath-taking ceremony on Wednesday, the Awami League Parliamentary Party held their first meeting at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban and elected Sheikh Hasina as the Leader of the House. Meanwhile, Matia Chowdhury became the deputy leader of the House, while Noor-e-Alam ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has been denied bail in a case filed over attack on Chief Justice’s official residence. An High Court bench of Justice Md Salim and Justice Shahed Nuruddin on Wednesday rejected Fakhrul’s bail dismissing a rule after holding hearing today. Barrister Mahbub Uddin Khokon and Barrister Kaysar Kamal were present in the court on ...

The historic Homecoming Day of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the greatest Bangalee of all times, is being observed on Wednesday across the country in a befitting manner. Bangabandhu, the undisputed leader of the nation and supreme commander of the country’s Liberation War, returned to the sacred soil of independent Bangladesh via London and New Delhi on ...

Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday released a commemorative postage stamp, a first-day cover and a data card, marking the historic Homecoming Day of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. She released the stamp of Taka 10, the first-day cover of Taka 10 and the data card of Taka 5 at her official residence ...

The 11th Jatiya Sangsad’s Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Choudhury administered oath of newly-elected Awami League MPs Newly-elected 222 members of parliament (MPs) belong to Awami League took oath on Wednesday (January 10) morning. They were sworn-in at 10:15am at the oath room on Level 1 of the East Block of Jatiya Sangsad building. The 11th Jatiya Sangsad’s Speaker Dr Shirin ...

Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday paid rich tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on his historic Homecoming Day. She paid homage to the great leader by placing a wreath at the portrait of the Father of the Nation in front of Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi this morning, reports UNB. Bangabandhu’s ...

After an announcement of not taking part, now Jatiya Party (JaPa) is saying that its newly elected 11 parliament members will participate in the oath-taking ceremony on Wednesday. Earlier, JaPa secretary general Mujibul Haque Chunnu announced that his party would not participate in the ceremony. He said, “We will take oath later, after holding a meeting with party chairman GM ...

The oath-taking ceremony of the new cabinet, led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, will be held at Bangabhaban on Thursday evening. “President Mohammed Shahabuddin will administer the oath to the new cabinet members,” President’s Press Secretary Md Joynal Abedin told BSS Tuesday evening. Cabinet Secretary Md Mahbub Hossain will conduct the new ministers’ oath-taking ceremony at Durbar Hall of the ...

The Election Commisison (EC) has published the gazette notification of the newly-elected members of parliament in the just concluded 12th Jatiya Sangsad election. EC’s public relations director Md Shariful Alam stated it to journalists on Tuesday (January 9). Earlier talking to journalists at his own office room at the Election Commission Bhaban at Agargaon in the capital early Tuesday afternoon, ...

Envoys of different countries including Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) states, Japan and Republic of Korea on Tuesday congratulated Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on her party’s victory in the 12th parliament election as they paid a courtesy call on her. Envoys of Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, Argentina, Indonesia, Republic of Korea and OIC members countries that include Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia, Egypt, ...