Jatiya Party (JaPa) has formally announced joining the upcoming 12th Jatiya Sangsad election. The party secretary general Mujibul Huq Chunnu formally announced joining the election at Jatiya Party chairman GM Quader’s Banani office in the capital. About joining the election, the JaPa secretary general told the Daily Observer Online that they received assurance from the Election Commission, government and other ...

A Dhaka court on Wednesday rejected the bail of BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in a case filed over the attack on the Chief Justice’s residence during BNP’s grand rally in Nayapaltan area of the city on October 28. Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions judge Faisal Atiq Bin Quader passed the order after hearing on a bail petition filed by ...

Kalyan Party chairman Maj Gen (retd) Syed Muhammad Ibrahim has announced a new political alliance Jukto Front. “Jukto Front will participate in the upcoming national election as an alliance. We are preparing to fight in 100 seats,” said Maj Gen Ibrahim at a press briefing at Jatiya Press Club on Wednesday morning. The three parties in the alliance are Bangladesh ...

To maintain law and order across the country during the ongoing 48-hour road, rail and waterways blockade, a huge number of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel have been deployed. According to a media release issued by BGB headquarters, a total of 232 platoons of BGB have been deployed across the county. Meanwhile, a total of ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said that some people who are thinking of assuming power over dead bodies are very inhuman. “I don’t see such brutality anywhere else as those who want to assume power through killing people. It’s beyond imagination to think,” she said while addressing the Armed Forces Day 2023 Reception at Senakunja at Dhaka Cantonment in the ...

The BBC on Tuesday revealed its list of 100 inspiring and influential women from around the world for 2023. Among them are attorney and former US First Lady Michelle Obama, human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, Ballon d’Or-winning footballer Aitana Bonmatí, AI expert Timnit Gebru, feminist icon Gloria Steinem, Hollywood star America Ferrera and beauty mogul Huda Kattan. The name of ...

Awami League has sold a total of 3,362 nomination forms in the last four days among aspirant candidates eager to contest the 12th Jatiya Sangsad election slated for January 7 next. Among them, 121 aspirants collected forms online, while the rest 3,241 collected forms from the AL’s central office at Bangabandhu Avenue in the capital. The party earned Tk 16.81 ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said good sense should prevail among the arsonists as nothing can be gained by burning people. “The arson violence has recently started again. How can a man burn another man? It is wrong,” she said. The prime minister said this while addressing a reception accorded to the selected gallantry award-winning freedom fighters and their ...

President Mohammed Shahabuddin and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday paid glowing tributes to the martyrs of the Bangladesh Armed Forces on the occasion of the Armed Forces Day-2023. The President, who is also the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, paid the tribute by placing a wreath at the altar of Shikha Anirban (flame eternal) in Dhaka Cantonment at ...

BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s advisor and the party vice chairman Habibur Rahman Habib has been arrested from Mirpur DOHS area in the capital. He was arrested by Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a case filed for contempt of court, RAB-2 senior assistant director (media) ASP Shihab Karim confirmed this on Tuesday morning. Habibur Rahman was arrested as he did not ...