Bangladesh

Information and Broadcasting Minister Hasan Mahmud on Friday said BNP is deadlier than dengue in many cases and this party should be resisted as like as this deadly disease. “Dengue (aedes) mosquitoes bite people while BNP burns people alive and torch vehicles by carrying out arson attacks. So, BNP should be resisted as like as dengue,” he said. Hasan, also ...

Following a meeting with US ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Haas in Dhaka on Thursday, Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader said he didn’t feel the foreign pressure, rather he felt ‘pressure of conscience.’ “Why should we feel pressure? It is our commitment to hold free, fair elections. If you talk about pressure, then it’s pressure from our own conscience,” Quader ...

The United Nations has called upon the Bangladesh authorities to allow people exercise their rights to freedom of peaceful assembly. “Authorities must abide by their human rights obligations and allow people to exercise their rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and freedom of opinion and expression, and to act diligently to protect against attempts by third parties to suppress or ...

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 ...