Chattogram Port Authority (CPA) Chairman Rear Admiral SM Moniruzzaman on Sunday alleged that a section of employees, under the banner of a protest, has disrupted port operations and effectively “hijacked” the country’s principal seaport, holding the public interest hostage. Speaking at a press conference held at the CPA headquarters around 12:30pm, the chairman said the ongoing agitation is an attempt ...

Akhtar Hossain, Member Secretary of National Citizen Party (NCP) and the 11-party alliance candidate for Rangpur-4 (Kaunia-Pirgachha) constituency, has received a death threat, according to a general diary (GD) filed at Pirgacha Police Station. The GD, lodged on Saturday night, states that while campaigning at Kishamat village of Chaula Union around 5:30 pm, Hossain received a threatening call from an ...

Electioneering by contesting candidates in the 13th National Parliament Election and Referendum, scheduled for 12 February, will conclude at 7:30am on Tuesday, exactly 48 hours before voting begins. The campaign, which started on 22 January, will end in line with electoral rules requiring all political parties and candidates to cease campaign activities two days prior to polling. Election Commission (EC) ...

Members of the army and other law enforcement agencies are being deployed across the country from today ahead of the 13th Jatiya Sangsad Election and Referendum scheduled for 12 February. The deployment will continue for seven days – four days before polling, on election day, and three days after – until 14 February. Election Commissioner Abdur Rahmanel Masud said that ...

Viktor Gyokeres struck twice as Arsenal sealed a comfortable 3-0 win over Sunderland to extend their advantage at the top of the Premier League table to nine points on Saturday, turning up the pressure on Manchester City ahead of their trip to Liverpool. After Martin Zubimendi’s stunning first-half strike, Gyokeres came on as a substitute and netted twice as Arsenal’s ...

Global cholera vaccine supply has now increased to a level sufficient to allow the resumption of life-saving preventive campaigns for the first time in over three years, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, UNICEF, and the World Health Organization (WHO) announced recently. Mozambique is the first country to restart preventive vaccination, following the halt in 2022 caused by the global surge in ...

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chairman Tarique Rahman on Saturday said that while the Army must remain alert of political affairs, BNP will not use the force for political purposes after getting elected. “Army members should always remain aware of politics, but must not be absorbed into it. Everyone must stay alert so that professionalism is not lost under the cover ...

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Shafiqur Rahman on Saturday said his party does not seek to rule the country as its owner, but to serve the people as their “watchmen,” pledging to ensure dignity and justice for all. “I am a son of Sylhet. Today I am standing before you not as the ameer of Jamaat, but as one of you,” Shafiqur ...

Robert Lewandowski and Lamine Yamal scored as Barcelona eased to a comfortable 3-0 win over Mallorca on Saturday to move four points clear at the top of La Liga. The champions extended the gap to Real Madrid in second before Alvaro Arbeloa’s side visits Valencia on Sunday, with Marc Bernal also on target late on at the partially reopened Camp ...

The Election Commission (EC) has halted its decision to provide election observer cards to an election watchdog for deploying 10,000 individual poll reviewers on 12 February. The EC decision has been taken after a media report found that in reality, PASHA is a one-person organisation, and is headquartered at a single room of the sole executive’s residence at a village ...