Bangladesh

‘Change for Peace, Jatiya Party for Change’ will be the main slogan of Jatiya Party (JaPa) in the coming 12th Parliamentary Election, said the party Secretary General Mujibul Haque Chunnu on Thursday. He said this while unveiling the election manifesto from its Banani party office in the capital at 12noon.  

A Dhaka court has framed charges against 213 leaders and activists of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its front organisations in two cases related to political violence. Among the accused is Aman Ullah Aman, the North City BNP Convener, who is currently in jail custody. Aman, and 170 others who are out on bail, pleaded not guilty and demanded ...

The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) has enormous potential to change the development landscape in the region, said Nepalese Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal. Dahal made the remark while a delegation of the SAARC Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SAARC CCI) called on the premier of the Himalayan nation in Kathmandu recently, said a press release on Wednesday. ...

Australian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Jeremy Bruer today reiterated its government’s commitment to continue humanitarian assistance to the Rohingya people and to support Bangladesh’s views in favour of repatriation of the displaced people to Myanmar. He made the remark while paying his farewell call to Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen at the foreign ministry here, a foreign ministry press release ...

Jatiya Party (JaPa) will announce its election manifesto on Thursday (December 21). JaPa Secretary General Mujibul Haque Chunnu will formally unveil the party manifesto from its Banani party office at 12pm Thursday. Top leaders of the party will present, according to a media note on Wednesday. On December 17, Chunnu said his party will contest in 283 constituencies as part ...

BNP has announced a “non-cooperation movement” against the government starting on Wednesday, and the opposition party has urged people of the country to boycott the January 7, 2024 election. During a virtual press briefing, BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said that their party’s acting chief Tarique Rahman has announced the movement. Rizvi said BNP is urging people ...

Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader on Tuesday said those who are responsible for killing four people including child by setting fire on moving train won’t be spared. “The arson attack on moving train in Bangladesh was as like as those attacks are being carried out on Palestinians by Israeli forces. The arsonists won’t get spared,” he said while inaugurating ...

At least four people were killed as miscreants set three coaches of Mohanganj Express train in Dhaka’s Tejgaon Railway Station on Tuesday morning. Two of the deceased were identified as Nadira Akter Poppy, 35, and her three-year-old son Md Yasin, according to Inspector Bachhu Mia, in-charge of DMCH police outpost. Three compartments of the Mohanganj Express train were set on ...

The Election Commission (EC) has taken zero tolerance stance regarding holding the 12th parliament election in a peaceful and neutral manner and none will be spared in case of violation of electoral code and conduct, said Election Commissioner Brigadier General (Rtd) Ahsan Habib Khan. Speaking at a view-exchange meeting at the Deputy Commissioner’s office conference room, he said in case ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday called for united efforts of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) states to establish peace in Gaza of Palestine. “The OIC member countries will have to work in unison to establish peace in Gaza,” she said when Qatar Ambassador to Bangladesh Seraya Ali Mahdi Saeed Al-Qahtani paid a courtesy call on her at her ...