Bangladesh

Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examination scheduled for Thursday under Comilla Education Board has been postponed. Comilla Education Board Examinations Controller Professor Runa Nasreen confirmed this information around 10 PM on Wednesday. Professor Nasreen said that the decision was made due to the emerging flood situation in several areas of Feni district, considering the humanitarian aspect. She further explained that among ...

Chief Adviser (CA) Professor Muhammad Yunus has instructed that all preparations for Bangladesh’s upcoming 13th parliamentary election be completed by December this year. Press Secretary to the Chief Adviser, Shafiqul Alam, announced the directive during a press briefing held at the Foreign Service Academy in Dhaka at 8 pm on Wednesday. The briefing was convened to discuss progress related to ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said that not only Sheikh Hasina, the Awami League should be brought under the trial process. BNP has been the biggest victim of the Awami League’s repression, torture, killings, and enforced disappearances, he commented. The party Secretary General made these comments while talking to reporters after visiting BNP Chairperson’s Advisory Council members ...

A delegation of Jamaat-e-Islami is scheduled to visit China at the invitation of the Chinese government from July 11 to 15, according to a post in its verified Facebook page. The party Amir Dr Shafiqur Rahman will lead the delegation. Meanwhile, on Tuesday (July 8) night, the Chinese Embassy in Dhaka organised a reception in honor of the high-level delegation ...

Nine prominent political and administrative figures, including former Prime Minister’s adviser Salman F Rahman and former law minister Anisul Huq, have been shown arrested in multiple cases linked to the last year’s anti-discrimination movement. The arrests were recorded in several cases filed with Jatrabari Police Station. Investigating officers produced the accused before a Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court On Wednesday and ...

A seminar titled “Sustainable Plastic Use in the Secretariat: A Future for a Single-Use Plastic-Free Environment” was held today at the Multipurpose Hall of the Ministry of Finance at the Bangladesh Secretariat. The event brought together high-level government officials and development partners to underscore the urgent need to eliminate single-use plastics (SUPs) from the Secretariat and its surrounding areas, paving ...

Direct shooting on student-led protests in Bangladesh last year was authorised by then prime minister Sheikh Hasina. An audio of one of her phone calls verified by BBC Eye confirmed this. Prosecutors in Bangladesh plan to use the recording as crucial evidence against Hasina, who is being tried in absentia at a special tribunal for crimes against humanity. In the ...

A case has been filed in Dhaka against 35 Bangladeshi expatriates who were arrested in Malaysia over suspected links to extremist activities. Anti-Terrorism Unit (ATU) of Bangladesh Police filed the case with Airport Police Station on July 5, citing connections to an internationally banned terrorist organization. Police Inspector Md. Abdul Baten of ATU lodged the complaint. On July 6, a ...

This time the EC will not invite the foreign observers who certified the last three national elections as ‘acceptable and credible’, said Chief Election Commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin on Tuesday. “The commission will invite the foreign observers who are dependable and reliable and also have experiences of observing elections in different countries. So, we will take (invite) them and will ...

Chinese acting ambassador to Bangladesh Liu Yuyin held a courtesy meeting with BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday. The meeting took place around 11AM at the BNP chairperson’s political office in the city’s Gulshan area, according to a spokesperson for the party. Fakhrul and some other party leaders welcomed the Chinese ambassador.