Bangladesh

Awami League will not guarantee victory of any of its allies in the election, said AL General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Friday. Also, there is no scope to leave more than seven seats for the allies, he said at a press briefing at AL president’s political office at Dhanmondi in the capital on Friday afternoon, reports UNB. Independent candidates will ...

Bangladesh Ambassador to the United States Muhammad Imran has met with acting US Secretary of Labour Ms. Julie Su in Washington DC and had an exclusive interaction on various bilateral issues. The meeting took place on the sidelines of an event organized by the US Department of Labour in the US capital on Thursday, said a press release received on ...

The Election Commission has cancelled the candidature of Metropolitan Awami League general secretary Serniabat Sadiq Abdullah, independent candidate of Barishal-5 constituency. If he wants, he will file a writ with the top court. The decision came following a hearing of an appeal on Friday (December 15). Earlier, Col Jahid Farruq submitted an application seeking the cancellation of the candidacy of  ...

The ruling Awami League has decided to leave seven seats to its 14-Party Alliance partners in the upcoming parliamentary election. However, Awami League will formally announce on Friday where they would give up its candidates. However, the 14-Party Alliance candidates will have to face the Awami League’s independent candidates in those seats. The decision was taken at a meeting with ...

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen thanked the Intergovernmental Committee and the UNESCO Secretariat for supporting Bangladesh in inscribing Rickshaw and Rickshaw Painting in Dhaka as Bangladesh’s fifth element of Intangible Cultural Heritage. At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Momen on Thursday welcomed and received the credentials of Susan Vize, newly appointed Head of the UNESCO Office and UNESCO Representative to ...

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has underscored the need for continuous fighting against the communal forces which ultimately opposing our Liberation War and saying that the evil forces are still spreading in the country. “We must have to fight continuously against the anti-liberation communal evil forces by motivating with self strength… As the evil forces still activate in the ...

The hearing on a rule issued by the High Court asking about BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir’s bail in a case filed over the attack on Chief Justice’s residence will be held on Sunday (December 17). An HC bench of Justice Md Salim and Justice Shahed Nuruddin set the date for holding the hearing. Earlier on December 7, ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paid tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, after paying rich tributes to the martyred intellectuals in Mirpur marking the Martyred Intellectuals Day. She went to Dhanmondi Road No 32 from Mirpur in the morning and laid a wreath at the portrait of the Father of the Nation in front of Bangabandhu Memorial ...

President Mohammed Shahabuddin and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday paid tributes to the martyred intellectuals on the occasion of the Martyred Intellectuals Day. The president and the Prime minister separately placed wreaths at the Martyred Intellectuals Memorial at Mirpur, reports UNB. They stood there in solemn silence for a while as a mark of profound respect to the memories ...

The nation is observing the Martyred Intellectuals Day on Thursday to commemorate the brightest minds killed systematically by the Pakistani occupation forces and their local collaborators towards the end of the Liberation War in 1971. On this day in 1971, the country’s renowned academicians, doctors, engineers, journalists, artists, teachers and other eminent personalities were dragged out of their homes, blindfolded, ...