Bangladesh

The Election Commission (EC) will brief the nation on January 6 about the overall preparations for the upcoming 12th parliamentary election. EC Secretary Md Jahangir Alam told this at a press conference held at the media centre of the election building in the capital on Monday He said the ‘meet the press’ will be held at the Bangabandhu International Conference ...

Free textbooks are being distributed among students up to the secondary level across the country including Dhaka for the academic year 2024. On the first day of the year, students were elated by the smell of new books. The guardians also join the book festival with great enthusiasm and fanfare. The book festival is being held centrally on Monday (January 1) ...

A labour court concerned is scheduled to pronounce its judgment on Monday in a case filed against Grameen Telecom Chairman and Nobel Laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus and three others on charges of violating labour law. Judge Sheikh Merina Sultana of Dhaka’s 3rd Labour Court on December 24 fixed January 1 for pronouncing the verdict, reports BSS. The three other defendants ...

The National Textbook Festival will be celebrated at all primary and secondary level educational institutions on Monday across the country. State Minister for Primary and Mass Education Ministry Md Zakir Hossain will attend the book distribution function as the chief guest at the National Govt Primary School in the capital, an official release said on Sunday (December 31). Primary and ...

All the courts across the country will remain open from January 1-7, according to Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) decision. Court boycott is against the law and democracy, it said.  

The Appellate Division of Supreme Court has canceled the candidacy of independent candidate Md Salahuddin of Chattogram-4 constituency for concealing his job information in his affidavit. The court also fined him Tk 1 lakh and Salauddin will be paid the money within one week. Chamber Judge of the Appellate Division of the SC Justice M Enayetur Rahim passed the order ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday inaugurated free textbooks distribution among students up to the secondary level for the academic year of 2024 as the textbooks distribution is set to officially start across the country tomorrow. The premier opened the textbook distribution programme at an event at her office through handing over books to students of pre-primary, primary and secondary ...

Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said killers will not be allowed to rein in Bangladesh anymore. She also said conspiracies are going on to foil the upcoming elections in Bangladesh, but the conspiracies will not be allowed to succeed. Stern action will be taken against those who play games with the fate of the country. Sheikh ...

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen on Saturday said the government has taken various steps for welfare for Bangladeshi expatriates residing across the world considering them as the heroes behind the Bangladesh’s development miracle. “They are our heroes. We must recognize them,” he said as the chief guest at the national event marking the “National Expatriates Day-2023 at Bangabandhu International Conference ...

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) on Saturday announced a two-day mass contact and leaflet distribution programme again as part of their programmes to boycott the 12th parliamentary election and the non-cooperation movement. BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi made the announcement at a virtual press conference on Saturday. He said they will distribute leaflets on 31 December and ...