Bangladesh

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has called a fresh 48-hour nationwide blockade for Sunday and Monday. BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi announced the seventh round of blockade of road-rail-waterway through a virtual press briefing on Thursday afternoon, on the last day of ongoing two-day blockade . The fresh blockade will be enforced from 6am Sunday (November 26) to ...

The nomination for Rajshahi and Rangpur divisions for the upcoming Jatiya Sangsad election has been finalised. The list of ‘Boat’ symbol candidates for 69 constituencies have been finalised at a Awami League Parliamentary Nomination Board’s meeting held on Thursday. “Several sitting lawmakers have been dropped. The names of the candidates will be announced on November 25,” said Awami League General ...

Representatives of a British-Bangladesh think tank group has sought for extending cooperation between the United Kingdom and Bangladesh to prevent the latest violence in Bangladesh. The group made their appeal while handing over a memorandum to British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Sunday (Nov 20), reports UNB. The UK-based ‘study circle’ led by its coordinator Jamal Ahmed Khan, along with ...

Prime Minister and Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina on Thursday attended her party’s parliamentary nomination board meeting ahead of the 12th national election slated for January 7 next. The meeting has started at 10am at the office of Dhaka district AL unit in Tejgaon area here to finalise party’s candidates of Rajshahi, Khulna and Rangpur divisions to be participated ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the world should firmly say ‘No’ to all wars and conflicts to protect mankind and humanity. “In today’s globalized world, surely it would be easy to firmly say ‘NO’ to all wars and conflicts to save human lives and humanity,” she said. She made remarks while addressing the ‘G20 Leader’s Summit 2023’ held in ...

President Mohammed Shahabuddin on Wednesday said no action of a high-ranking public and military official must erode in any way or transgress the fundamental rights of a citizen. “Obligation to human rights and rule of law must be the guiding principle of your activities,” he said. He said this while participants of the National Defense Course and Armed Forces War ...

Jatiya Party (JaPa) has formally announced joining the upcoming 12th Jatiya Sangsad election. The party secretary general Mujibul Huq Chunnu formally announced joining the election at Jatiya Party chairman GM Quader’s Banani office in the capital. About joining the election, the JaPa secretary general told the Daily Observer Online that they received assurance from the Election Commission, government and other ...

A Dhaka court on Wednesday rejected the bail of BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in a case filed over the attack on the Chief Justice’s residence during BNP’s grand rally in Nayapaltan area of the city on October 28. Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions judge Faisal Atiq Bin Quader passed the order after hearing on a bail petition filed by ...

Kalyan Party chairman Maj Gen (retd) Syed Muhammad Ibrahim has announced a new political alliance Jukto Front. “Jukto Front will participate in the upcoming national election as an alliance. We are preparing to fight in 100 seats,” said Maj Gen Ibrahim at a press briefing at Jatiya Press Club on Wednesday morning. The three parties in the alliance are Bangladesh ...

To maintain law and order across the country during the ongoing 48-hour road, rail and waterways blockade, a huge number of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel have been deployed. According to a media release issued by BGB headquarters, a total of 232 platoons of BGB have been deployed across the county. Meanwhile, a total of ...