Bangladesh

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has said BNP’s publicity secretary Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Annie was not tortured in police custody and he made false allegation to attract the attention of the court. The minister told this while replying to questions from media at ‘Sharat Utsab’ (autumn festival) organised by Satyen Sen Shilpi Gosthi at the Bakultala of fine arts faculty ...

Visiting joint pre-election assessment mission is scheduled to visit Awami League’s Dhanmondi political office in the capital on Friday afternoon. The party deputy office secretary Sayem Khan said this to media, adding that, they are busy in cleaning the office to receive them. Earlier on October 9, AL met with the six-member delegation from the International Republican Institute (IRI) and ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday urged the businessmen in leather footwear and leather goods industries to put concentration on developing ‘Brand Bangladesh’, revealing that the ‘Leather Development Authority’ would be formed for the sector. “Let our products be marketed under our own name. Let the name of our country highlight. I want the name of Bangladesh to shine and ...

Trinamool BNP has expressed its desire to participate in the upcoming national elections, although a final decision has not yet been made. The party is closely monitoring the pre-polls situation, as stated by Trinamool BNP Chairperson Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury after a meeting with the Election Commission (EC) on Thursday. Shamsher, the chief of Trinamool BNP and former vice-chairman of BNP, ...

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen on Thursday said he had “very good and positive” discussion with US Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs (SCA) Afreen Akhter in Colombo on several issues including elections and human rights. The foreign minister briefed her about the preparations for the next national elections that the government wants to ...

A Dhaka court has set November 13 for hearing on charge framing in 11 cases, including a sedition case, filed against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia. Judge Md Asaduzzaman of Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court set up at Keraniganj Central Jail adjourned the hearing following a petition submitted by the defence on Thursday and fixed the new date. Among the 11 ...

The High Court has sentenced Sohail Rana, former Cumilla Chief Judicial Magistrate, to 30 days’ imprisonment on charge of contempt of court. Besides, he has been ordered to surrender before Dhaka’s Chief Judicial Magistrate Court within seven days. An HC bench of Justice Md Badruzzaman and Justice SM Masud Hossain Dulon on Thursday passed the order after hearing on a ...

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Thursday sentenced Dinajpur Municipality mayor Syed Jahangir Alam to one month in jail on chage of making derogatory remarks about one of its judges. He was fined Tk 1 lakh and asked to surrender in a Dinajpur court within seven weeks, a five-member bench of the Appellate Division led by Chief Justice ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is likely to visit Brussels, Belgium later this month to attend the Global Gateway Forum 2023. The Global Gateway Forum will bring together representatives of governments from the European Union and from around the world with the private sector, civil society, leading thinkers, financing institutions, and international organisations in a two-day, invitation-only event to be held ...

Ansar Ahmed Ullah:   Geneva, 10 October 2023: Speakers at the United Nations side event on 10 October called upon the governments and international institutions, including the UN agencies, to recognise the Bangladesh genocide committed by Pakistan in 1971. They said silence is complicity and opined that every genocide and every crime against humanity deserves to be recognised to give ...