Bangladesh

A female teacher of Viqarunnisa Noon School and College died of dengue fever at a private hospital in the capital city early Friday. Deceased Morsheda Begum, a teacher of Viqarunnisa Noon School and College. She breathed her last around 6:30 am while undergoing treatment in a private hospital at Moghbazar. Viqarunnisa Noon School and College Principal (Acting) Keka Roy Chowdhury ...

As part of a fresh programme of the ongoing one-point movement, BNP’s Dhaka North and South City units on Friday brought out two separate processions towards Malibagh from Badda and Kamalapur Stadium areas in the capital respectively. The programme was also meant for mounting pressure on the government to accept the opposition’s one-point demand which includes the resignation of the ...

Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud has said BNP is now at the edge of the ditch and its fall is inevitable if it boycotts the next elections. “Due to BNP’s continuous aversion to elections and following imposed decisions, it is going to become a gang of hooligans (lathial bahini) of an individual and it is now at the ...

Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Friday returned home from Singapore after his routine health check-up at Mount Elizabeth Hospital, reports BSS. He reached Dhaka through a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight around 6.15pm, a ministry press release said. On August 9, Quader left Dhaka for Singapore for his regular health check-up as he ...

Another female physician died of dengue fever at a hospital in the capital on Friday morning. Sharifa Binte Aziz, 27, of Dohar upazila in Dhaka, breathed her last at Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) around 5:00am. Sharifa completed her MBBS degree from Rangpur Medical College and Hospital and was studying FCPS at the DMCH. ...

Bangladeshi UN official Lt Col (Retd) AKM Sufiul Anam, who had been abducted by Yemen’s branch of terrorist group Al-Qaeda, met Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday and expressed his gratitude to her. Sufiul Anam along with his family members met the Prime Minister at her official residence Ganabhaban, according to a press release from the Prime Minister’s Office, reports ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday said their party’s only goal is to save the country from the hands of current fascist regime. “We have been struggling and fighting against the oppression of the fascist, authoritarian and oppressive regime. Our only goal is to free the country from the grasp of these fascists,” he said, reports UNB. ...

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Monday said legal steps will be taken to bring back fugitive convicts BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman and his wife Zubaida Rahman. “Legal procedures will be taken to bring back Tarique-Zubaida,” he told the journalists after receiving a memorandum from Juba League central leaders at his ministry office. Juba League chairman Sheikh Fazle Shams ...

Bangladesh Awami Jubo League (JL) has submitted a memorandum to the Chief Election Commission (CEC) demanding cancellation of the registration of BNP and banning its politics terming the party as a ‘terrorist organisation’. A delegation led by JL general secretary Mainul Hossain Khan Nikhil went to the Nirbachan Bhaban at Agargaon on Thursday (August 10) and submitted the memorandum to ...

The government has banned new militant group Jamaatul Ansar Fil Hindal Sharqiya as it is considered to be a threat to public safety and the law and orders of the country. The home ministry through a notification on Wednesday said, “It appears to the government that the declared activities of the militant group/organisation called Jamaat Ansar Fil Hindal Sharqiya are ...