Bangladesh

The by-elections to Brahmanbaria-2 and Lakshmipur-3 constituencies are underway peacefully, with low voter turnout, amid the countrywide blockade on Sunday Voting began at 8 am and will continue till 4 pm without any break. Though the presence of voters at polling centers was thin, with time the voter turnout will increase, authorities hoped. In Brahmanbaria-2, voters are casting their votes ...

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and detectives arrested BNP’s Vice Chairmen Air Vice Marshal (retd) Altaf Hossain Choudhury and Barrister Shahjahan Omar from Dhaka early Sunday. A team of RAB arrested former Home and Commerce Minister and chief of Air Staff Altaf Hossain from Tongi, who had been hiding there since a case filed over the attack on the ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Dhaka for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) on Sunday morning to attend the International Conference on Women in Islam to be held in Jeddah. The Kingdom in coordination with the General Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is hosting the conference on November 6-8. A commercial flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, carrying ...

The main opposition BNP and its ally Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami have called a two-day blockade starting today to press home their one-point demand for resignation of the Awami League government. Unidentified people set fire to four minibuses at different places in Gulistan, Elephant Road, New Market and Saidabad on Saturday night ahead of the blockade, said officials of Fire Service and ...

Miscreants reportedly set three buses on fire in Elephant Road, New Market and Sayedabad areas of the capital on Saturday evening. Fire Service and Civil Defence headquarters’ control room duty-officer Rozina Akhter said one of the bus ‘Mirpur Super Link Ltd’ was torched in front of Multiplan City Centre on Elephant Road at around 7:35pm and another at the gate ...

Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina has reiterated her call to the countrymen to vote for her party’s electoral symbol ‘Boat’ to sustain the country’s development and people’s wellbeing. “This time boat will definitely win,” she said while addressing a grand rally at the city’s Arambagh marking the inauguration of the much-anticipated metro rail service from Agargaon to ...

The Election Commission’s meeting with President Mohammed Shahabuddin has been deferred to November 9. The Election Commission sources confirmed this on Saturday. Earlier, the meeting was scheduled for November 5. All the four election commissioners, led by the CEC Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal, are expected to meet the president ahead of announcing the schedule for the 12th national ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday inaugurated the construction work of 20-km MRT Line-5 (Northern route) from Hemayetpur to Bhatara via Gabtoli, Mirpur-10, Gulshan. Earlier, the Prime Minister inaugurated the second phase of the much-desired metro rail service from Agargaon to Motijheel at 2.30pm from the Agargaon station. Then, she took the metro to Motijheel for another inaugural programme at ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday afternoon travels to Motijheel from Agargaon Station after inaugurating the Motijheel- Agargaon section of metro rail. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday afternoon inaugurated the much-anticipated metro rail service from Agargaon to Motijheel. On her arrival at the Agargaon Rail Station, Communications and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader welcomed her. The PM also purchased ticket ...

Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Huq has said holding elections, forming the parliament and all other activities must be done as per the constitution and laws of the country. “Provisions for the formation of the parliament and the government and holding the elections are clearly mentioned in the constitution. Whatever happens in the future must be under the ...