Bangladesh

No future elections will be allowed to take place in Bangladesh without a caretaker government in power, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said. “We have only a single demand. Sheikh Hasina led government must have to resign first and the next general election will take place under a neutral caretaker government. The neutral caretaker government will form ...

Bangladesh has urged the United Nations, ASEAN and regional countries to support the pilot repatriation project and help Rohingya returnees reintegrate in Myanmar. Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations in New York, Ambassador Muhammad Abdul Muhith, made the call while speaking at the Security Council‘s Arria-formula meeting on Myanmar. The meeting convened by the United Kingdom was held ...

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen on Saturday urged countries, who are heavily investing in Myanmar, to come forward for a sustainable solution to the Rohingya crisis for their own interests and to protect their investment. “If this problem is not resolved, you have seen many countries in the Asia Pacific and the Bay of Bengal — their attractions have increased ...

State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid has urged the industrialists to stop the use of illegal gas connections. “Whenever we visit a factory, we find that if there is a legal gas connection, there are three more illegal connections bypassing the main one”, he told a seminar at Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) where ...

A case has been filed against 1, 300 people in connection with the clash between BNP men and police during the party’s countrywide protest programme  in Khulna city on Friday. Officer-in-Charge of Khulna Sadar Police Station Hasan Al Mamun told our the Daily Observer correspondent  that Sub-Inspector Khalid Uddin as a plaintiff filed the case on Friday night with Khulna ...

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Friday said BNP is taking preparation secretly for resorting to arson terrorism in the name of road march. “BNP is getting ready for violence and conspiracy in the name of movement. BNP is taking preparation for arson terrorism during its road march. BNP’s road march would be a march of fall,” he told ...

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been rejected outright by the United States government, BNP standing committee member Dr Khondker Mosharraf Hossain has said. He made the remark while addressing a rally as the chief guest in Chattogram city on Friday (May 19, 2023) afternoon. Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)’s city, south and north district units organised the rally on Noor ...

At least 30 people including police personnel were injured in a clash between the law enforcers and BNP supporters over holding a pre- scheduled rally of the party in front of Khulna Press Club in the city on Friday afternoon. Khulna Metropolitan Unit BNP member secretary Shafiqul Islam Tuhin claimed that at least 20 leaders and activists of their party ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated this years the Hajj Programme-2023 at Hajj Camp at Ashkona in the capital on Friday morning. Opening the Hajj Programme, the Premier sought doa from the Hajj pilgrims for the people of Bangladesh. The premier later exchanged greetings with the hajj pilgrims at the Hajj camp. The first hajj flight is scheduled to depart Hazrat ...

The preliminary exam of 45th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) was held on Friday morning at 235 centers in eight divisional cities – Dhaka, Rajshahi, Chittagong, Khulna, Barisal, Sylhet, Rangpur and Mymensingh across the country. The two-hour long exam began at 10am and continued till 12pm. A total of 346,000 candidates have applied to compete in the test, according to Bangladesh ...