Bangladesh

Chief Adviser to the interim government Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus on Sunday started his office at the Chief Adviser’s Office (CAO), previously known as Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), at Tejgaon in the capital. Chief Adviser’s Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam confirmed the matter to BSS. The Sheikh Hasina government was toppled on August 5 in 2024 in a student-people revolution. Later, ...

The High Court on Sunday dismissed the writ petition seeking ban on the Awami League as a political party. An HC bench of Justice AKM Asaduzzamana and Justice Md Mahbubul Islam passed this order. The writ petitioner Arifur Rahman Murad Bhuiyan was present in the court, while attorney general Md Asaduzzaman represented the state. Earlier, Arifur Rahman Bhuiyan, Executive Director ...

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is celebrating its 46th founding anniversary across the country on Sunday. The party has shortened its previously announced elaborate programmes due to the severe flooding affecting the country’s eastern region. As part of founding anniversary programmes, the party flag has been hoisted at its offices across the country, including the central one in city’s Nayapaltan area, ...

Five people were killed in a collision between a bus and a truck in Gopalganj’s Kashiani upazila on Sunday morning. At least 20 people were also injured in the accident that happened at about 7:45AM at Majhighati area, said Bhatiapara Fire Service assistant officer Md Rezaul Mawla. The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately. A Dhaka-bound bus ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has alleged that a vested quarter is conspiring to foil the victory of students and people. They are tarnishing the image of our party spreading confusion. If anyone tries to seek rent using the name of BNP, please hand him over to police. BNP leaders and workers cannot seek extortion from people. Be ...

A court in Dhaka has placed former national parliament chief whip ASM Feroz on three-day fresh remand in a case filed over the murder of Sohag Mia in Bhatara area during the anti-discrimination students movement on July 19. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Saiful Islam granted the remand as Sub-Inspector (SI) Masudur Rahman, investigating officer of the case, produced him before the ...

A Dhaka court has sent former chief news editor (CNE) of the private channel Ekattor Television Shakil Ahmed and his wife, former chief reporter and anchor Farzana Rupa to jail after their 9-day remand was over in garment worker Rubel murder case at Adabar in the capital. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Farzana Shakila Sumu Chowdhury rejected their bail plea and ordered ...

The death toll from the flood has risen to 59 with five more deaths were reported in Feni and Noakhali on Saturday while the flood situation is improving in the affected districts. The information was revealed at a daily updated from the Disaster Management and Relief Ministry on Saturday. Among the deceased, 23 in Feni, 14 died in Cumilla, nine ...

India has said they have seen the CNN report on the flood situation in Bangladesh, and its narrative is “misleading” and suggests that India is somehow responsible for the floods. “It is factually not correct and ignores the facts mentioned in the press releases issued by the Government of India clarifying the situation. They also have ignored that we have ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said despite the fall of autocratic Awami League government, there is no matter of satisfaction. “Conspiracies are still going on at home and abroad. The conspirators will attack the freedom-loving people of the country once they get any chance. So, we must get united to protect student and people’s victory,” he said ...