Bangladesh

Home Affairs Adviser Lt Gen (retd) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury has protested the mob justice, which was carried out during the detention of former Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Nurul Huda. “If there is anything like this, please inform us and hand it over to the law enforcement agencies. The law enforcement agencies will take action.” He made these remarks while ...

Officials and employees started sit-in at the gate of National Board of Revenue (NBR) wearing shrouds demanding resignation of Chairman. Around 9AM on Tuesday, the NBR officials and employees of different levels started the three-hour strike and pen-down programme. Earlier on Saturday, NBR Reform Unity Council’s President and Additional Commissioner Hasan Muhammad Tarek Rikabdar and General Secretary and Additional Tax ...

Muhammad Monirul Maola, former Managing Director of Islami Bank Bangladesh, was arrested from his residence in Bashundhara Residential area by the Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police early Monday. Confirming the matter, DB Joint Commissioner Mohammad Nasirul Islam said that Maola has pending cases against him. After being taken into custody around 12:15 AM, he was brought to the ...

National Citizen Party (NCP) Convenor Md Nahid Islam today said the party’s decision on participating in the upcoming election depends entirely on the interim government’s reform efforts. “Our top priority remains reform. The decision to join the election will depend on how those reforms progress,” Nahid told reporters after meeting Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) AMM Nasir Uddin following the submission ...

Just hours after the arrest of former Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) A K M Nurul Huda, another former CEC, Kazi Habibul Awal, has also been detained. Law enforcement officials arrested Awal on Sunday night, according to a senior police headquarters source. The source confirmed that Awal was apprehended from the Bashundhara Residential Area in Dhaka. DB Joint Commissioner Nasirul Islam ...

Former Member of Parliament from Munshiganj-3, Mohammad Foysal Biplob, was arrested by the Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police on Sunday night. He was detained from his residence in Monipuripara, Tejgaon around 10:00 PM. Confirming the matter, DB Joint Commissioner Nasrul Islam said that Biplob was wanted in a case filed in Munshiganj. Authorities were also investigating whether any ...

Police arrested former Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda from Uttara area in the capital on Sunday evening. Confirming the matter,Uttara West Police Stationofficer-in-charge M Hafizur Rahman said that he was taken into custody. “A group of people had surrounded the rented residence of the former CEC in Sector 5 of Uttara. We deployed police personnel for his security ...

BNP central organising secretary Ruhul Quddus Talukdar Dulu and his wife Sabina Yasmin were acquitted on Sunday from a corruption case. Md Abul Kashem, Judge of Dhaka Special Judge Court-1, issued the order. Dulu’s lawyer Borhan Uddin confirmed the acquittal, saying the court found the charges unsubstantiated. The case, filed on April 19, 2007, accused the couple of concealing wealth ...

Vice-chair of the National Consensus Commission Professor Ali Riaz has urged political parties to demonstrate greater flexibility and compromise to help ease the finalisation of the July Charter. “This dialogue has given political parties an opportunity to come closer. We have observed this progress.” Riaz made the request during inaugural speech of Sunday’s session between political parties and the Commission ...

Police used batons, water cannon and sound grenades to disperse job aspirants registered under the 17th batch of the Non-Government Teachers’ Registration and Certification Authority (NTRCA) as they blocked the Secretariat road on Sunday. The clash broke out around 11AM in front of the Jatiya Press Club when the demonstrators gathered there and started protest blocking the road. For this, ...