Bangladesh

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has announced a two-day programme over the death of the party’s late leader and convicted war criminal Delwar Hossain Sayedee. Acting Ameer of the party Prof Mujibur Rahman made the announcement at a press conference on Wednesday. He said the party will stage demonstrations and protest marches across the country on August 18 and 23. Earlier on Tuesday, ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has raised question whether war crime convict Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee received ‘proper treatment’ before his death. Fakhrul raised the question while speaking at a doa mahfil and discussion as the chief guest at Mirza uhul Amin Auditorium in Thakurgaon early Wednesday afternoon. The doa mahfil was arranged seeking BNP Chaiperson Khaleda ...

Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s historic house at Road No. 32, Dhanmondi in the capital has turned into Bangabandhu Memorial Museum. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her younger sister Sheikh Rehana took part in a milad and offered munajat seeking divine blessings of their parents, siblings and relatives at that house. They prayed for the eternal peace ...

A man was killed and 15 others were injured in a clash between police and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and Chhatra Shibir over holding a namaz-e-janaza of Delawar Hossain Sayedee in Chakaria upazila of Cox’s Bazar district on Tuesday afternoon. The incident took place at around 4pm on the Baitus Sharf road in Chakaria municipality. The deceased was identified as Mohammed ...

President Mohammed Shahabuddin today hosted a milad and doa mahfil at Durbar Hall of Bangabhaban after Asr prayers, marking the National Mourning Day and the 48th martyrdom anniversary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The Head of State said his Asr prayers at the Durbar Hall before joining the milad and doa mahfil. Earlier, a brief discussion ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday paid rich tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by placing wreath at his mausoleum here on his 48th martyrdom anniversary and the National Mourning Day. After placing the wreath, the prime minister stood in solemn silence for some time as a mark of profound respect to the memory of the ...

The body of former politician and lecturer Delwar Hossain Sayeedi, who died of heart attack on Monday night, was taken to his village home Pirojpur district on Tuesday morning. Seeing the body, his followers burst into tears. An ambulance carrying Sayeedi’s body reached on Sayeedi’s foundation premise at 10am where a large number of people have been waiting since morning. ...

President Mohammed Shahabuddin and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday paid rich tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, marking his 48th martyrdom anniversary and the National Mourning Day. The Head of the State paid glowing tributes to the Father of the Nation by placing a wreath at his portrait in front of Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at ...

The nation is observing the National Mourning Day and 48th martyrdom anniversary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on Tuesday with due respect and solemnity. Bangabandhu and most of his family members were brutally killed by some disgruntled army men on the fateful night of August 15, 1975 and this carnage is touted as the ugliest chapter ...

The United Kingdom wants a free, fair and peaceful election to be held in Bangladesh. UK High Commissioner Sarah Cooke conveyed it to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina while paying a courtesy call on her at her official Ganabhaban residence in Dhaka on Monday (August 14), PM’s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim quoted Cooke as saying during a media briefing after the ...