Bangladesh

The 15th anniversary of release of Awami League President and incumbent Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from prison will be observed tomorrow. On this day in 2008, Sheikh Hasina was released from the special sub-jail set up on the premises of the Jatiya Sangsad (Parliament) Bhaban after remaining captive there for nearly 11 months. The Awami League president was arrested from ...

Awami League (AL) General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Saturday said BNP has brought Jamaat-e-Islami in field to carry out arson terrorism. “Jamaat’s real guardian – BNP – brings it in the field. It means, they are preparing to carry out arson terrorism and vandalism again,” he told a peace rally arranged by Dhaka City ...

Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh has announced that there will be no election in Bangladesh without the caretaker government in power. The party’s top leaders also announced to sit for talks with the government over holding the next general elections under a caretaker government. Speaking at a rally at Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB) Auditorium at Ramna in the capital on Saturday afternoon, ...

The conspirators get united and start new conspiracies when election approaches, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has said. “Many parties do not participate in the election and they keep clamoring so that the election do not to take place,” the minister said these while addressing at an anti-drugs and terrorism rally held in Dhaka’s Dhamrai on Saturday. The Home Minister ...

A suicide note has been found at the residence of Shahriar Kabir, president of Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee, following the recovery of his daughter Arpita Kabir Mumu’s dead body. The body of 41-year-old Arpita was found hanging with a rope tied to a bathroom window at their Banani apartment in the capital on Thursday night. The police, however, did ...

The election campaigns for the Khulna City Corporation (KCC) and Barishal City Corporation (BCC) polls are set to end on Saturday midnight. As the KCC polls and BCC polls are scheduled to be held on Monday (June 12), no candidates will be allowed to continue campaign after midnight. In Khulna, the campaigning activities for the election began on May 26 ...

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islam Dhaka City South got the permission to hold a rally in the capital after ten years. Ashraful Alam Emon, director of Jamaat Dhaka South’s publicity and media wing, claimed at midnight on Friday that the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has given the party permission to hold the rally at the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB) auditorium in Ramna ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has laid emphasis on promotion of native sports in a larger way to increase engagement of young generation in extracurricular activities, saying sports and physical exercises boost up self-confidence and senses of responsibility to the country. “Local sports should be given more importance so that those can be practiced more . . . I want our ...

Awami League’s central working committee member Mohammad Ali Arafat got the party’s nomination for Dhaka-17 by-election which is scheduled to be held on July 17. The decision was taken in a joint meeting of the AL Parliamentary Nomination Board and Local Government Representative Nomination Board, chaired over by President Sheikh Hasina, at her official residence Gono Bhaban in Dhaka on ...

The body of Arpita Shahriyar Kabir Mumu, daughter of human rights activist Shahriyar Kabir, has been recovered by police from a house at Banani in the capital. Receiving information, police went to the house on Thursday night and found the hanging body of Arpita Kabir Mumu. Later, they handed the body over to the family. Banani Police Station officer-in-charge Mostafizur ...