Bangladesh

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Habibul Awal has convened an urgent press conference at 12:00 noon tomorrow (Thursday) amid the rumours of his resignation. He stated it to reporters while coming out from the Nirbachan Bhaban at Agargaon in the capital on Wednesday. Asked whether they were resigning, Kazi Habibul Awal said: “I would not say anything else about the ...

The Anti-Discrimination Student Movement has announced a ‘March Remembering Martyrs’ programme for Thursday (September 5) on the occasion of completion of one month into the Hasina government’s fall and one month of the independence. Coordinator Sarjis Alam announced the programme at a press conference held at TSC Auditorium of Dhaka University in the capital on Wednesday (September 4). Coordinators Hasnat ...

The holy Eid-e-Miladunnabi, marking the anniversary of the birth and demise of Prophet Hazrat Muhammad, will be observed across the country on September 16 with due religious solemnity. The decision was taken at the National Moon Sighting Committee’s meeting held at the Islamic Foundation (IF) Conference Room at Baitul Mukarram National Mosque on Wednesday evening with Secretary of the Ministry ...

Chief Adviser Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus held his first meeting with secretaries on Wednesday after the formation of the interim government. The meeting began at 11:30am on Wednesday (September 4) at the Chief Adviser’s Office at Tejgaon in the capital. The Chief Adviser’s Press Wing said it. It is learnt that the meeting discussed the overall situation prevailing in the ...

After the fall of Awami League government due to mass uprising of students and public, protesters attacked and set fire to various police stations across the country. During the chaos, miscreants looted a large number of weapons and ammunition from these stations. Later, the government set  September 3 as the deadline for surrendering these looted arms and announced that a ...

A Dhaka court today (4 September) sent two former inspectors general of police (IGP), Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun and AKM Shahidul Hoque, on remand in connection with separate murder cases. Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Akhtaruzzaman issued the orders, placing Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun on an eight-day remand in the case of grocery shopkeeper Abu Sayed’s murder in the Mohammadpur area. ...

Joint forces set to commence a nationwide operation to recover illegal arms starting from 12 AM on Wednesday as the deadline for submitting legal and illegal weapons will end on Tuesday night. Alongside this operation, efforts will also target drug trafficking and apprehend the involved. Home Affairs Advisor Md. Jahangir Alam Chowdhury announced the development during a press briefing following ...

Newspaper editors have opined that the interim government should stay in power for “minimum two to three years,” said Chief Adviser’s press secretary Shafiqul Alam. Following an opinion-sharing meeting between Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus and 20 newspaper editors at the state guest house Jamuna in the capital on Tuesday (September 3), he briefed reporters. During his opinion-sharing meeting with ...

The former chief justice who had resigned under the pressure of Anti-Discrimination Student Movement left the country for the United States on Friday, it is learnt. Earlier on August 10 last, he submitted his resignation letter to the president. In his resignation letter, he wrote that he had to resign from his post for protecting the Supreme Court building and ...

With the death of four more people, the flood death toll rose to 71, a Disaster Management and Relief Ministry report said on Tuesday. So far, the floods claimed highest 28 lives in Feni. In its daily update, the ministry informed that 19 died in Cumilla, 28 in Feni, six in Chattogram, one in Khagrachhari, 11 in Noakhali, one on ...