Bangladesh

British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Sarah Cooke held a meeting with Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chairman Tarique Rahman on Saturday evening. The meeting took place at 5:55pm on Saturday at the BNP Chairman’s Office in Gulshan, Dhaka. During the meeting, Sarah reaffirmed the UK’s long‑standing encouragement of free, fair, credible and peaceful elections in Bangladesh, the British High Commission in ...

Editors, journalists and media leaders from across the country on Saturday underscored the vital role of a free, independent, active and fearless media in sustaining democracy, warning that any attempt to silence media organisations ultimately threatens the rights of society as a whole. “The democratic aspiration that brings people into journalism can never be a crime,” said President of the ...

Adviser for Information and Broadcasting and Environment, Forests and Climate Change Syeda Rizwana Hasan on Saturday urged people from all walks of life to refrain from unnecessary honking, stressing that public awareness and behavioural change are crucial to curbing noise pollution. Speaking at the inauguration of a motor rally organised under Department of Environment’s Integrated and Partnership-based Project for Noise ...

BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman on Saturday said that no conspiracy or propaganda can suppress the party. ”Leaders and activists of BNP have never disguised under secrecy or hidden agendas in the name of strategy.” Speaking during a meeting with families of victims of enforced disappearance,Tarique said, ”I strongly believes that whose activists can take an uncompromising stand against injustice ...

A fortnight after the leader of Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami in Bangladesh revealed that he had held a “secret” meeting with an Indian diplomat, the Ministry of External Affairs on Friday (January 16, 2026) said the interaction was part of the routine engagements conducted by Indian diplomats in Dhaka. “We have close bilateral ties with Bangladesh as you are well aware. ...

European Union Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) Deputy Chief Observer Inta Lase on Saturday said it is very important to see the whole picture of electoral process holistically to present their report impartially, stressing that this is a historic moment for Bangladesh. “Let us observe and let us wait until a holistic assessment is done,” she told reporters at a ...

Mahmudur Rahman Manna, president of Nagorik Oikya, has been taken to a hospital after experiencing chest pain. This was confirmed on Friday night (16 January) by the party’s central committee member A. Razzak Talukder Sajib. He said Manna felt chest pain at around 11pm and was taken to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), popularly known as PG Hospital, for ...

A new political platform, Network for People’s Action (NPA), was formally launched on Friday at Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka, marking the start of its activities. One of the platform’s key founders, former Dhaka University student Mir Huzaifa Al Mamduh, said that NPA will be guided by a 101-member central council. He announced the names of 99 members, with the ...

The government has appointed Omar Bin Hadi, brother of Shaheed Sharif Osman Hadi, as second secretary on a contractual basis at Bangladesh Assistant High Commission in Birmingham, United Kingdom. The appointment was confirmed through a notification issued on Thursday (15 January) by Contract and Foreign Appointment Wing of Ministry of Public Administration. Signed by Joint Secretary Abul Hayat Md Rafiq, ...

Islami Andolan Bangladesh has announced its withdrawal from Jamaat-e-Islami–led 11-party electoral alliance and said it will contest the upcoming general election independently in 268 constituencies. The decision was announced on Friday (16 January) by Gazi Ataur Rahman, senior joint secretary general and spokesperson of Islami Andolan Bangladesh, at a press conference held at the party’s central office in Dhaka to ...