Bangladesh

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday reiterated the government’s commitment to creating facilities across various sectors to ensure the country’s comprehensive advancement in the future. “We want the country to progress in every stratum, including sports, in the coming days,” she said while giving away prizes to the winners of the Sheikh Hasina Interbank Football Tournament 2024 at the Bangladesh ...

The anti-quota activists will continue their movement until the government enacts a law in the parliament reforming it. They will hold a protest march at 11am on Sunday, starting from Dhaka University premises and will place a memorandum to the President demanding reform in quota system in government jobs. The leaders of ‘quota-reform movement’ announced the fresh programmes at a ...

Traffic division of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has announced that battery-run autorickshaws (locally made three-wheelers) and other slow-moving vehicles will no longer be allowed to operate on the main roads in Dhaka city. This decision is being implemented alongside enforcement of the law, said DMP Joint Commissioner (Traffic-South) SM Mehedi Hasan at a press conference held at the DMP Media ...

Dr. Nizamul Haque Bhuiyan, Secretary General of the University Teachers Association Federation, said their discussion with Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader is satisfactory. “Our three-point demands have been discussed openly in the meeting. We will informed our decision after discussing the matter with the federation members.” Nizamul Haque Bhuiyan, also President of the Dhaka University Teachers Association, made this ...

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader is holding a meeting with a delegation of the teachers, who are on strike demanding the withdrawal of new pension scheme ‘Prottoy’. The meeting began at around 11:30am on Saturday at Awami League’s Dhanmondi office in the capital. A delegation of at least 10 teachers went to the Awami League office for the meeting. ...

Law Minister Anisul Huq has said he believes students, who have been protesting quotas in government jobs, will accept the Supreme Court’s directive and return home, warning that the government will be forced to take action otherwise. The minister was speaking to journalists at Akhaura railway station in Brahmanbaria, his constituency, on Friday morning. Warning the protesters, the minister said ...

Urging the quota protesters not to be abused as political tools of anyone, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said their party is always sincere about the logical demand of the country’s people. “No logical demand was ever ignored by the Awami League. Awami League is always working to build a welfare and prosperous state by bearing the hopes ...

The quota reform demonstrators will announce their next course of action programme through a press conference to be held tomorrow in coordination with all public and private universities across the country. The announcement came from a demonstration staged at Shahbagh intersection in the capital Dhaka on Friday afternoon. Earlier in the day, agitating students brought out a procession on Dhaka ...

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Habibur Rahman has warned that any attempts to break law and order will not be tolerated. “All will have to obey the order of the court. If anyone tries to break law and order, police will not tolerate it,” he said while inaugurating virtually the ‘Walton-CRAB Sports Competition 2024 and ‘Fruit Festival’ organised by Crime ...

It rained continuously for three hours across the capital on Friday morning from 6 am to 9 am. According to Meteorological Office, 60 mm of rain has fallen in Dhaka in these three hours. It is still drizzling. Incessant rains have caused waterlogging in various places. The city dwellers are suffering. Incessant rains have created waterlogging at Moghbazar Wireless Gate, ...