Bangladesh

A Dhaka court has sentenced expelled Jubo Mohila League leader Shamima Nur Papia to four years in jail in a case filed under Money Laundering Act. Judge Md Manjurul Hossain of Dhaka Special Judge Court-8 pronounced the judgement on Sunday. Papia’s husband Mofizur Rahman and her associates Sabbir Khandaker, Sheikh Tayeba Nur and Zubayer Alam were acquitted in the case ...

The International Crimes Tribunal has directed to publish a notice in a national daily ordering to appear former prime minister Sheikh Hasina before it to explain the contempt of court case. The notice must be published in a Bengali and an English dailies within the next seven days. The Prosecution said, “The tribunal ordered to publish a notice asking Hasina ...

Secretariat officials and employees are staging a protest inside the Secretariat demanding the withdrawal of the Public Service (Amendment) Ordinance, 2025. The Secretariat was abuzz with processions and slogans throughout the day on Saturday too. Around 9:30AM on Sunday, the officials and employees started gathering in Badamtala of the secretariat for holding a protest procession led by Md Nurul Islam ...

One of the most renowned cultural figures in the country is Kazi Nazrul, a poet, novelist, lyricist, composer, playwright, and journalist. He became a rebel poet as a result of his flaming poetry, which inspired the oppressed masses to resist the injustice and persecution of British colonial control. And the nation got inspirations from his poems and songs during the ...

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has called for reconstitution of interim government’s advisory council by excluding controversial advisors to maintain the administration’s neutrality. BNP Standing Committee Member Dr. Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain made the announcement on Saturday night following a meeting with the Chief Advisor at state guest house Jamuna. He stated, “To uphold neutrality and public trust, controversial figures should ...

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus is not resigning, Planning Adviser Prof Wahiduddin Mahmud commented after a closed-door meeting with council of advisers on Saturday. “We are here to carry out the responsibilities entrusted with us and can’t go leaving those.” The closed-door meeting of the council of advisers began at 12:20PM at the National Economic Council (NEC) conference room at ...

National Citizen Party (NCP) convenor Nahid Islam has said that NCP has no connection with the two student advisers Mahfuj Alam and Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain. Nahid said, “They (Mahfuj Alam and Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain) joined the government as representatives of the mass uprising. I was also with them. If they want to do politics, hold elections, they can’t ...

The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has frozen almost £90m of luxury property in London belonging to two men linked to the deposed ruler of Bangladesh. In a development that comes after mounting pressure on the UK to assist Bangladesh in tracing assets linked to the former regime, the NCA obtained nine freezing orders, official records show, according to The ...

A Supreme Court lawyer has served a legal notice to Sarjis Alam, Chief Organiser (North) of the National Citizen Party (NCP), alleging against him a contempt of court. Lawyer Jashimuddin sent the notice on Saturday morning over Sarjis’s comment on the court’s verdict that declared that there is no legal bar for BNP leader Ishraque Hossain to take an oath ...

Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus sets to meet leaders of Bangladesh Nationalist Party and Jamaat-e-Islami amid rising political tensions and some rumours of his resignation as head of the interim government. Yunus has invited the BNP delegation to the State Guest House Jamuna, his official residence, at 7:30PM on Saturday, followed by a meeting with Jamaat leaders at 8:30PM. A four-member ...