Bangladesh

BNP vice-chairman Shahjahan Omar has received Awami League nomination to contest the coming 12th parliamentary election from Jhalakathi-1 constituency. A press release signed by Awami League president Sheikh Hasina stated it on Thursday (November 30). Later, Shahjahan Omar submitted his nomination form to the Election Commission to contest the election as an Awami League candidate on Thursday. Shahjahan Omar, a ...

US Ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Haas is holding a meeting with Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen at State Guesthouse Padma. The meeting began around 11 am today. Issues being discussed at the meeting could not be known immediately, reports UNB. It is worth noting that the Bangladesh Embassy in Washington DC has said the political context of the US “Presidential ...

After 24-hurs blockade on Wednesday, the main opposition BNP is observing its 24-hour hartal on Thursday. The strike began with an arson attack on two covered vans on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway at Bhogra Bypass intersection in Gazipur at an early hours. Abdus Samad, senior station master of Joydebpur Fire Service, said miscreants waylaid the covered vans and threw petrol bombs on ...

Trinamool BNP has announced the names of party nominated candidates for the coming 12th Jatiya Sangsad election. The party has announced the names of candidates in 230, out of 300 seats. The names of the candidates of rest of the seats will be announced later on. Five former members of parliament (MPs) are also among the nominated candidates. Taimur Alam ...

The European Union has expressed the hope that Bangladesh will hold a democratic, credible, peaceful and participatory parliamentary elections. “The entire world wants to see a democratic, credible, peaceful and participatory elections in Bangladesh,” EU Ambassador to Bangladesh Charles Whiteley said. He was talking to reporters after leading a 10-member delegation of EU’s Missions in Bangladesh at a meeting with ...

Awami League will not accept any changes to the election schedule beyond its time-frame, party’s general secretary Obaidul Quader has said. “Awami League will not accpt changing the election schedule deferring the voting date,” he said during a press conference at the Awami League president’s political office at Dhanmondi in the capital on Wednesday. Quader emphasized that the party will ...

Former foreign secretary and ambassador Waliur Rahman passed away on Wednesday morning. He was 80. He died of cardiac arrest around 10:30 am at LabAid Hospital in Dhaka, family sources said. His namaz-e-janaza will be held at Baitul Aman Jame Mosque at 5:30pm after Maghrib prayers at Road No. 7 in Dhanmondi. Waliur Rahman was the chairman of Heritage Foundation. ...

President Mohammed Shahabuddin on Wednesday asked the graduates of ‘Defence Services Command and Staff Course (DSCSC)-2023′ to utilize their skills and knowledge for people’s welfare. “The 21st century’s challenges are multifaceted, ranging from conventional to non-traditional . . . The rigorous training you have undergone here will flourish you with skills and knowledge which is necessary to face these complex ...

The resignation letters of two technocrat ministers and a state minister have been accepted by the cabinet. The three ministers are Science and Technology Minister Architect Yafesh Osman, Posts and Telecommunications Minister Mustafa Jabbar, and State Minister for Planning Shamsul Alam. Meanwhile, the resignation letters of three advisers to the Prime Minister have also been accepted. The three are Economic ...

The main opposition BNP is observing its 24-hour blockade on roads, railways, and waterways across the country on Wednesday. This is the party’s eighth round of blockade to mount pressure on the Awami League government to quit power and hold the next election under a non-partisan administration. A bus belonging to ‘Turag Paribahan’ was set on fire by miscreants at ...