Bangladesh

Dhaka Elevated Expressway’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA-Farmgate section has formally opened to the public on Sunday morning. Regular vehicular movement commenced on the expressway at 6:00 am today. It takes only 10 to 12 minutes to reach Farmgate from the airport through the expressway. Three wheelers, bicycles and pedestrians are not being allowed to move on the expressway, while ...

Thousands of contractual rail workers of Bangladesh Railways blocked Malibagh rail line in the capital on Sunday morning, forcing the authorities to suspend the train communication of Dhaka with other parts. The workers, who were demanding their jobs be made permanent, blocked the rail line from 10am. Dhaka Railway Police Station OC Ferdous Ahmed said, “We are discussing the issue ...

A court in Dhaka on Sunday framed charges against eight BNP leaders and activists, including the party Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, in a case filed under Explosive Substance Act. Other accused in the case are the party senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, Jamaat leader Dr Muhammad Shafiqul Islam Masud, Saiful Alam Nirab, Moazzem Hossain babu, Azizul ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the opening of Dhaka Elevated Expressway is another milestone in the country’s communication sector and it would play a significant role in reducing traffic congestion. “This (Dhaka Elevated Expressway) is a new milestone in the communication sector. I have inaugurated Dhaka Elevated Expressway PPP Project’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport to Farmgate portion. Work on ...

The 24th session of the 11th Jatiya Sangsad (JS) will begin on Sunday. The session will begin at 5:00pm at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban in the city’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area, said a JS press release earlier, reports BSS. On August 16, President Mohammed Shahabuddin convened the 24th session of the parliament exercising the power bestowed upon him as per the ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir returned home on Saturday from Singapore after receiving medical treatment there for over a week. The BNP secretary general along with his wife Rahat Ara Begum landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport by a flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines around 6:30pm. Talking to reporters at the Airport, he said he went through harassment ...

In an open letter on August 28 last, several Nobel laureates, politicians, businessmen and civil society members requested Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to halt the ongoing case against Dr Muhammad Yunus which was filed under the labour law of the country. “We strongly protest such an undesirable interference on the freedom of judiciary of a sovereign nation,” said 50 ...

BNP Standing Committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury has said announcing the election schedule doesn’t mean that the election will be held so easily. He was speaking at a discussion at the Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU) on Saturday (September 2). Ganatantra Forum organised the discussion styled, “Justice, Democracy and Human Rights in Present Context”. Responding to an Election Commissioner’s remarks ...

The upcoming national elections will be held in the first week of January next week, said Election Commissioner Md Anisur Rahman on Saturday. “The parliamentary polls will be held in the first week of January 2024. But yet to fix the date of the elections.” He said this at the opening day of the trainers’ training program at Agargaon election ...

Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said she has returned power to people which was confined to cantonment. “No progress of the country takes place if power goes to uneducated and illiterate people. We developed the country from 1996 to 2001. But, Khaleda Zia destroyed all those things after going to power,” she said while speaking as ...