Bangladesh

Home Adviser Lieutenant General Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury (Retd.) has asked the law enforcing agencies to mobilize their efforts to capture the ‘godfathers’ of the drug trafficking. “Not only the carriers, but also the godfathers of the drug trafficking must be captured to protect the next generation, family, society and the state from ruining,” he said. The home adviser was ...

Political parties have yet to find common ground on two key issues in the country’s ongoing reform dialogue — the election method for 100 proposed women’s seats in parliament and the structure of elections to the planned upper house under a new bicameral system. At a press briefing on Monday, National Consensus Commission (NCC) Vice Chair Prof Ali Riaz said ...

A Dhaka court has denied bail to former Food Minister Qamrul Islam in seven cases, including charges of murder, attempted murder, and extortion related to anti-discrimination protests. Defense lawyer Aftab Mahmud Chowdhury confirmed the decision on Monday. Three separate Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge Courts in Dhaka rejected his bail petitions on Sunday. Two of the cases involve extortion in Qamrul’s ...

A Dhaka court on Monday granted five-day remands for two brothers accused in the brutal murder of a businessman near Mitford Hospital in Old Dhaka. The accused, Sajib Bepari and Md. Rajib Bepari, were produced before Metropolitan Magistrate Masum Mia’s court on Monday. Investigating officer, Kotwali Police Station Officer-in-Charge Md. Moniruzzaman, sought a seven-day remand for each. Following a hearing, ...

The interim government has said the claim that the incidents of crime are sharply rising in Bangladesh this year is not fully supported by available data. “In fact, the data reveals stabilisation in major crime categories over the past 10 months,” said Chief Adviser’s Deputy Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad Majumder on Monday. Citing statistics from the Police Headquarters, the ...

National Consensus Commission Vice Chair Prof Ali Riaz has said that women’s protest, their powerful voices, their resistance gave a new strength to the anti-fascist movement and pushed it toward change. He made the remarks while presiding over the 13th day discussion of the second-round reform dialogue with political parties at the Foreign Service Academy on Monday. Ali Riaz said ...

BNP on Monday formed an investigation committee to probe the recent murder of a scrap trader in Old Dhaka’s Mitford area. “There are reasons to suspect that this murder is being used for political gain and that such an incident is being used as an excuse at the instigation of certain quarters to disrupt the atmosphere of the upcoming national ...

A third group of 30 Bangladeshi nationals has returned home from Tehran amid ongoing tensions between Iran and Israel. The group arrived in Dhaka early Monday morning on an Air Arabia flight and landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, according to a spokesperson from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This repatriation follows two earlier phases. On July 1, the first ...

The Ministry of Religious Affairs has announced it will refund more than Tk 8.28 crore to 4,978 Hajj pilgrims after managing to secure accommodations at reduced rates this year. The development comes as part of the government’s efforts to ensure financial transparency and pass cost benefits directly to pilgrims. Speaking at a press briefing on Sunday, Religious Affairs Adviser A ...

National Consensus Commission Vice Chairman Professor Ali Riaz urged political parties to reach an agreement on key state reform issues by July 31 to finalize a proposed national charter. “We are trying to reach a logical point by the end of July, by any means,” Prof Riaz said during the 12th day of the second round of reform dialogues at ...