Bangladesh

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said that some people who are thinking of assuming power over dead bodies are very inhuman. “I don’t see such brutality anywhere else as those who want to assume power through killing people. It’s beyond imagination to think,” she said while addressing the Armed Forces Day 2023 Reception at Senakunja at Dhaka Cantonment in the ...

The BBC on Tuesday revealed its list of 100 inspiring and influential women from around the world for 2023. Among them are attorney and former US First Lady Michelle Obama, human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, Ballon d’Or-winning footballer Aitana Bonmatí, AI expert Timnit Gebru, feminist icon Gloria Steinem, Hollywood star America Ferrera and beauty mogul Huda Kattan. The name of ...

Awami League has sold a total of 3,362 nomination forms in the last four days among aspirant candidates eager to contest the 12th Jatiya Sangsad election slated for January 7 next. Among them, 121 aspirants collected forms online, while the rest 3,241 collected forms from the AL’s central office at Bangabandhu Avenue in the capital. The party earned Tk 16.81 ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said good sense should prevail among the arsonists as nothing can be gained by burning people. “The arson violence has recently started again. How can a man burn another man? It is wrong,” she said. The prime minister said this while addressing a reception accorded to the selected gallantry award-winning freedom fighters and their ...

President Mohammed Shahabuddin and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday paid glowing tributes to the martyrs of the Bangladesh Armed Forces on the occasion of the Armed Forces Day-2023. The President, who is also the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, paid the tribute by placing a wreath at the altar of Shikha Anirban (flame eternal) in Dhaka Cantonment at ...

BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s advisor and the party vice chairman Habibur Rahman Habib has been arrested from Mirpur DOHS area in the capital. He was arrested by Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a case filed for contempt of court, RAB-2 senior assistant director (media) ASP Shihab Karim confirmed this on Tuesday morning. Habibur Rahman was arrested as he did not ...

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has called a 48-hour countrywide blockade from Wednesday morning to protest the schedule for the next national election announced by the Election Commission (EC). BNP’s senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi announced the programme at a virtual press briefing on Monday afternoon. He said the blockade will be enforced from 6am Wednesday and will end ...

Scotland is keen on hiring construction workers from Bangladesh, a visiting parliamentary delegation from the country told Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday. This was conveyed when a six member Cross-Party Parliamentary Group (CPG), led by first- ever Bangladeshi origin MP of the Scotland Parliament Foysol Choudhury met the prime minister at her official residence Ganabhaban in the capital. The ...

Election Commissioner (EC) Rashida Sultana has said that if BNP and other parties decide to join the upcoming national polls, opportunities will be created as per the law. “I will not say anything over the issue now. Will think about the matter, when the situation is come. If they (BNP) join, we will welcome them,” she said on Monday while ...

A Dhaka court has deferred the hearing on the bail plea of the BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir to November 22 in a case filed over the attack on the chief justice’s residence during BNP’s grand rally in Nayapaltan area of the city on October 28. The bail hearing was scheduled for Monday (November 20) in Dhaka’s First ...