Bangladesh

The ruling Awami League has paid rich tributes to Shaheed Sheikh Kamal, the eldest son of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, on the occasion of his 74th birth anniversary. Around 8am, leaders and activists of Awami League and its associate and front organizations went to Dhanmondi Abahani Club and placed wreaths at the portrait of Sheikh Kamal. ...

The 74th birth anniversary of valiant Freedom Fighter Shaheed Captain Sheikh Kamal, the eldest son of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, is being observed on Saturday (August 5) in a befitting manner. Different sports and socio-cultural organizations, including the ruling Awami League, popular club Abahani Limited and Abahani ‘Samarthak Goshti have taken elaborate programmes to observe the ...

The managing committee of Jatiya Press Club (JPC) on Friday paid rich tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Tungipara in Gopalganj. Members of JPC managing committee led by its President Farida Yeasmin and General Secretary Shyamol Dutta placed a floral wreath at the mausoleum of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and stood ...

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 ...