Bangladesh

The Election Commission (EC) on Monday announced the election schedules for five city corporations Gazipur, Khulna, Barishal, Rajshahi and Sylhet. The election to Gazipur will be held on May 25, while Khulna and Barishal on June 12 and Rashahi and Sylhet on June 21. EC Secretary Jahangir Alam announced the election schedules at a press briefing after a meeting of ...

A Dhaka court on Sunday granted bail to Prothom Alo reporter Shamsuzzaman Shams in a case filed under the Digital Security Act (DSA). Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Asaduzzaman Nur granted the bail on a bond of Tk 20,000. A Dhaka court on Thursday sent him to jail rejecting his bail petition. Another petition was filed on Monday seeking bail. ...

Information and Broadcasting Minister Hasan Mahmud on Sunday said people of the whole country have protested the incident (report) of the Prothom Alo, but the newspaper does not apologize yet. “Today, the people of the entire country have opened up their mouths and are protesting the incident (report) of the Prothom Alo. But the concerned newspaper is yet to apologize. ...

Jatiya Party on Sunday (April 2, 2023) hosted an Iftar party and dinner at a city hotel in honour of foreign diplomats working in Bangladesh. Besides, senior leaders belonging to Awami League, BNP and other political parties, and civil society representatives joined the Iftar party. Foreign diplomats stationed in Dhaka, including ambassadors, high commissioners and representatives from around 18 countries ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday stressed the need for ensuring that seekers of jobs abroad must not fall prey to the frauds and middlemen. “So we always have to consider that these people could go abroad through proper channel and get appropriate job. It is very important for us to ensure that these people must not fall prey to ...

This year’s minimum Fitra has been fixed at Tk 115 per person and maximum at Tk 2,640. The decision was taken at a meeting of the National Fitra Fixing Committee in the conference room of the Islamic Foundation on Sunday. The meeting was presided over by president of National Fitra fixing Committee and Khatib of Baitul Mukarram National Mosque Hafez ...

Prothom Alo editor and publisher Matiur Rahman on Sunday sought anticipatory bail from the High Court in a case filed against him with Ramna Police Station under the Digital Security Act (DSA). The bail petition was filed this morning, said Adv Proshanto Kumar Karmakar, a counsel for Matiur Rahman. On March 29, an FIR was filed by lawyer Abdul Malek ...

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Saturday said the daily Prothom Alo and BNP are working to complement each other to undermine the government. “There is no doubt that the report published by Prothom Alo is part of an international conspiracy. Prothom Alo and BNP are working to complement each other,” he said. Quader was addressing a joint meeting ...

The fall of the government will be accelerated through the mass uprising, said BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam on Saturday (April 1, 2023). “The fall of this government is imminent as people have become awakened about its misrule and rampant corruption,” he said while speaking as the chief guest at a sit-in programme at Institution of Engineers Bangladesh (IEB) ...

US Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration Ambassador Julieta Valls Noyes has said rebuilding the country after the 1971 war, and now forging the path toward economic growth, inclusion and development, Bangladesh serves as a model in many ways for the rest of the world. Julieta Noyes applauded Bangladeshi leadership and generosity as a ...