Bangladesh

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) AMM Nasir Uddin on Saturday announced that Presiding Officers will serve as “Chief Election Officers” at their respective polling centres, with full legal authority to ensure fair and lawful elections. Speaking at a training workshop for polling officials at RPADC auditorium in Chattogram, the CEC said, “Presiding Officers will be fully empowered under the law. If ...

People from all walks of life on Saturday paid their last tribute to eminent writer, essayist, and Emeritus Prof of the English Department at Dhaka University Syed Manzoorul Islam at Aparajeyo Bangla of Dhaka University and the Central Shaheed Minar. The body of Manzoorul Islam was taken to Aparajeyo Bangla of Dhaka University at around 10:30AM and then it was ...

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus is set to leave for Rome, Italy on Sunday to attend the flagship event of World Food Forum, hosted by Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. According to Chief Adviser’s Press Secretary, Shafiqul Alam, Professor Yunus and his delegation will depart from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 11:30 AM aboard a Biman ...

Environment Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan on Saturday emphasized the urgent need for legal protection and institutional safeguards for environmental human rights defenders in Bangladesh, noting that such individuals are increasingly targeted with violence and even death globally. Speaking at National Consultation on the Draft National Human Rights Commission Ordinance, 2025, held at a Dhaka hotel, Rizwana said the proposed ordinance ...

BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman has said his party’s vision for Bangladesh is one where every girl has the same freedom, opportunity and safety that any parent would wish for their own child. In a post on his Facebook page marking the International Day of the Girl Child on Saturday, Tarique said, “Let’s celebrate every girl’s right to dream, to ...

Renowned Bangladeshi photographer and human rights activist Shahidul Alam returned home early Saturday (October 11) after being released by Israeli authorities. A flight of Turkish Airlines carrying Shahidul Alam landed Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka around 4:55AM. Earlier on Friday, he landed in Istanbul around 2:30PM (local time), where he was received by Bangladesh Consul General Mohammad Mizanur Rahman. ...

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Professor Mia Golam Porwar has alleged that efforts are being made to influence the upcoming national election by appointing individuals loyal to a particular political party within the administration. Speaking as the chief guest at a protest rally near the south gate of Baitul Mukarram National Mosque in Dhaka on Friday, he said, “By showing bias ...

BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Advocate Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has said the party views the upcoming July Charter, scheduled to be signed on October 15, in a positive light. Speaking to reporters after offering flowers and prayers at the grave of late President Ziaur Rahman at Chandrima Udyan in Dhaka on Friday morning, Rizvi said, “If we truly believe in ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday criticised what he called unnecessary controversy over the party’s election symbol, the ‘Sheaf of Paddy’, saying the BNP never objected to anyone else’s electoral symbol. “Brother, we never opposed your symbol. The Election Commission will decide which one you get. So why all this pointless tug-of-war over BNP’s ‘Sheaf of Paddy’?” ...

Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Adviser Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuiyan has said the Awami League should be held accountable as a political party for the killings during the July-August 2024 uprising, in which over 1,500 people were reportedly killed and nearly 30,000 injured. “We believe the Awami League must be tried as a party for the massacres it carried ...