Bangladesh

BNP Chairperson and former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia’s health condition is extremely complex and she is passing through a critical phase, said her personal physician Dr AZM Zahid Hossain early Sunday. Speaking at a press briefing at the main gate of Evercare Hospital, Dr Zahid said Khaleda Zia’s physical condition has not shown improvement and she is currently undergoing ...

Justice Zubayer Rahman Chowdhury took oath on Sunday as the 26th Chief Justice of Bangladesh. President Mohammed Shahabuddin administered the oath at his official residence Bangabhaban at 10:30AM, where Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus, among others, were present. Bangladesh Television and Bangladesh Betar aired live the event. On 23 December last, Justice Zubayer Rahman Chowdhury of the Appellate Division of ...

Rashed Khan, general secretary of Gono Odhikar Parishad, has resigned from the party and joined the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). Earlier, Rashed Khan submitted his resignation letter to Gono Odhikar Parishad President Nurul Haque Nur. Rashed has been nominated as the BNP candidate from the Jhenidah-4 constituency. The development was announced at a party event, where BNP Secretary General Mirza ...

BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman on Saturday offered fateha at the grave of his younger brother Arafat Rahman Koko. Tarique arrived at the Banani Graveyard at around 1:50PM, completing the National Identity Card (NID) registration and voter enlistment process at the Election Commission’s National Identity Wing. He offered fateha at the grave and joined a munajat, seeking salvation of Koko’s ...

BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman has completed the National Identity Card (NID) registration process giving fingerprints and Iris scans. He arrived at the Election Training Institute in Agargaon at around 1PM to complete his NID registration and enlist himself as a voter. As part of the process, he provided biometric data and had his photograph taken. ASM Humayun Kabir, DG ...

BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman on Saturday morning visited the grave of Inqilab Moncho spokesperson Sharif Osman Hadi at Dhaka University and offered fateha there. He, alongwith BNP leaders, went to the grave, located beside the gave of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam,at about 11:17AM and, later, placed a wreath at Hadi’s grave at around 11:30AM. Tarique offered fateha and ...

BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman visited the National Martyrs’ Memorial on Friday night and paid tributes to the martyrs of the 1971 Liberation War, marking his homecoming after nearly 17 years of exile in London. He reached the National Martyrs’ Memorial around 10:00 pm, accompanied by senior party leaders, amid the presence of a huge number of party supporters. Several ...

A day after returning to Bangladesh following years in exile, Bangladesh Nationalist Party acting chairman Tarique Rahman paid homage to his father, BNP founder and former president Ziaur Rahman, by visiting his grave at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar on Friday afternoon after 19 years. Tarique Rahman reached the mausoleum of the late president around 4:40pm, where he placed floral wreaths, took part ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday said that Tarique Rahman will build a truly democratic state, highlighting the historic nature of his return to Bangladesh. Fakhrul made the remarks while paying tribute at the grave of former President Ziaur Rahman at Chandrima Udyan in Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka. He described Tarique Rahman’s reception on Thursday as unprecedented, saying ...

Inqilab Moncho on Friday blocked the Shahbagh intersection in Dhaka, demanding justice for the killing of its spokesperson and Dhaka-8 constituency’s prospective parliamentary candidate, Shaheed Sharif Osman Hadi. Following Jummah prayers, leaders and activists of Inqilab Moncho, along with general students and members of the public, brought out a protest march from the Dhaka University Central Mosque and marched to ...