Bangladesh

Professor Panna Kaiser, a former member of parliament, breathed her last at the United Hospital in the capital on Friday morning. She was 73. KM Shakhawat Moon, deputy press secretary to the Prime Minister, confirmed the news. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday expressed her deep shock and sorrow at the death of Panna Kaiser. Panna Kaiser was the wife ...

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has announced that the party will stage demonstrations at all divisional cities on Sunday (August 6). The party after failing to get permission from the Dhaka Metropolitan Police has postponed its Friday’s programme at Suhrawardy Udyan to press home its demand of holding the next parliamentary election under a caretaker government. Jamaat-e-Islami Nayeb-E-Ameer Dr Syed Abdullah Mohammad Taher ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday offered lands to the Netherlands for investments in the shipbuilding sector of Bangladesh. “If you (Netherlands) wish, we can give you places for drydocks (in Bangladesh),” she told outgoing Netherlands Ambassador to Bangladesh Anne Van Leeuwen. The Dutch envoy paid his farewell call on the premier at the latter’s office in the city, PM’s ...

BNP Secretary Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday alleged that the government has been using the judiciary as the biggest weapon to establish fascism by suppressing and oppressing the opposition. “This fascist government is using the judiciary as its main and biggest weapon,” he said. Speaking at a press conference at BNP’s Nayapaltan central office, he also said the government ...

Mentioning that Awami League (AL) is committed to people to hold a free, fair and peaceful general election, the party’s general secretary Obaidul Quader said the government is not feeling pressure over hectic movement of foreigners centring the next general. He told these reporters after holding meeting with the United States ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Haas at the party office ...

The Election Commission (EC) will control Facebook’s campaign to prevent the propagation of disinformation after announcing the upcoming 12th national elections schedule. The facebook will also block content, said EC’s additional secretary Ashok Kumar Debnath on Thursday. “We sat with a facebook team to discuss how to prevent falsehood in the social media because there are some technical matters. Our ...

US Ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Hass went to Awami League’s Bangabandhu Avenue central office on Thursday morning for a view exchange meeting with the party leaders. He sat with some Awami League leaders including the party General Secretary Obaidul Quader after 11am. AL Presidium Member Muhammad Faruk Khan, International Affairs Secretary Shammi Ahmed, Information and Research Secretary Selim Mahmud, Office ...

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Thursday formed a new bench to dispose the rule that questioned the labour court order framing charges against Nobel Laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus and three others in a case filed over labour law violation. An HC bench of Justice SM Kuddus Zaman and Justice Fahmida Quader have been asked to dispose the ...

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has set August 10 for hearing on a petition seeking to impose a ban on Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami’s all political activities until the disposal of a plea on the party’s registration. A seven-member bench of the Appellate Division led by Chief Justice Hasan Foez Siddique fixed the date on Thursday (August 3). Writ petitioners ...

Prime Minister and Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday sought vote for her party’s electoral symbol ‘Boat’ in the next general election and give them another chance to serve the people. “People have got country’s independence by casting vote for the boat… the country’s development happens only when Awami League remains in power. Fortunes of the people have ...