Bangladesh

BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman will return home soon, everything is being prepared, said BNP Standing Committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury on Saturday. ”Tarique Rahman will return home and the party will participate in the national elections under his leadership, said Amir Khasru during briefing to reporters at a programme in the city’s Banani hotel. When asking about Dr ...

BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman has said that the uncompromising leadership and nine-year-long pro-democracy struggle of party chief Begum Khaleda Zia paved the way for the fall of autocracy on December 6 1990, a day he described as a turning point in country’s democratic history. In a post published Friday evening, December 5, on his verified Facebook page ahead of ...

The annual examinations in government primary schools across Bangladesh are set to resume on Sunday following a temporary disruption caused by ongoing teachers’ protests. The decision came after Directorate of Primary Education (DPE) issued sudden transfer orders for several teachers, raising concerns about potential disruption to students’ education. Md. Shamsuddin Masud, co-convener of Primary Teachers’ Demand Implementation Council, confirmed that ...

Jatiya Nagorik Party (NCP) on Friday urged the Election Commission to consider the illness of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia before announcing the schedule for the upcoming 13th national election, scheduled for next February. Speaking at a policy discussion organized by NCP at a Dhaka hotel on Friday evening, Nahid said, “The Election Commission (EC) will decide on the schedule. One ...

Dr Zubaida Rahman, wife of BNP’s acting chairman Tarique Rahman, visited her mother-in-law and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia at Evercare Hospital on Friday before heading to her parental home in Dhanmondi. She spent more than two and a half hours at the hospital and left around 2:40 pm. Zubaida Rahman arrived in Dhaka at around 10:45 am on a Biman ...

A total of 310 Bangladeshi nationals who had been staying illegally in Libya returned home on Friday, Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement. They arrived in Dhaka at 10 AM on a chartered flight, as part of a coordinated repatriation effort involving Bangladesh Embassy in Libya, the foreign ministry, Ministry of Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment, Libyan authorities ...

Dr. Zubaida Rahman, wife of BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman, is flying from London to Dhaka as preparations intensify to transfer critically ill Khaleda Zia abroad for advanced medical care. She is scheduled to depart London for Dhaka, party insiders confirmed, with plans to escort BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia to London once arrangements are complete. Several senior BNP sources shared ...

Qatar is prepared to send an air ambulance to take BNP Chairperson and former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia abroad for medical treatment. The information was confirmed on Thursday by the Qatar Embassy in Dhaka. Meanwhile, specialist medical teams from the United Kingdom and China have joined in providing treatment for the BNP chairperson. Khaleda Zia has long been suffering from ...

Commenting that a new Bangladesh will be born through the upcoming 13th Parliamentary Elections, Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus said, “Through this election, a new Bangladesh will emerge.” “This is not an ordinary election. It will be a post-uprising election, different from all traditional elections.” Prof Yunus made the remarks while addressing the Superintendents of Police (SPs) from all 64 ...

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will be taken to London at an early hours or Friday morning by a Qatar government-provided air ambulance for advanced treatment if everything goes weel, said her personal physician Prof Dr. AZM Zahid Hossain. He disclosed the decision while speaking to reporters at a press conference in front of Evercare Hospital around 2:45PM on Thursday.Media Monitoring ...