Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has called a 48-hour countrywide blockade from Wednesday morning to protest the schedule for the next national election announced by the Election Commission (EC). BNP’s senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi announced the programme at a virtual press briefing on Monday afternoon. He said the blockade will be enforced from 6am Wednesday and will end ...

Scotland is keen on hiring construction workers from Bangladesh, a visiting parliamentary delegation from the country told Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday. This was conveyed when a six member Cross-Party Parliamentary Group (CPG), led by first- ever Bangladeshi origin MP of the Scotland Parliament Foysol Choudhury met the prime minister at her official residence Ganabhaban in the capital. The ...

Election Commissioner (EC) Rashida Sultana has said that if BNP and other parties decide to join the upcoming national polls, opportunities will be created as per the law. “I will not say anything over the issue now. Will think about the matter, when the situation is come. If they (BNP) join, we will welcome them,” she said on Monday while ...

A Dhaka court has deferred the hearing on the bail plea of the BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir to November 22 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. The bail hearing was scheduled for Monday (November 20) in Dhaka’s First ...

Unidentified miscreants set fire to two buses, including a staff bus of Bangladesh Bank, on Monday afternoon, on the last day of 48-hour hartal enforced by the BNP and its allies. In Motijheel, miscreants set fire to a staff bus of Bangladesh Bank at Motijheel on Monday afternoon, Fire Service Duty Officer Ershad Hossain said they got the information of ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday underlined cooperation among Bangladesh, Nepal and the Maldives to promote tourism for mutual benefits. “Bangladesh, Nepal and the Maldives can promote cooperation on tourism for mutual benefits,” she told outgoing Maldives High Commissioner to Bangladesh Shiruzimath Sameer during a farewell call on her, reports UNB. PM’s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim Briefed reporters after the ...

Jatiya Party (JaPa) started selling nomination papers from Monday for the upcoming 12th National Parliamentary Election. The nomination forms are being given at the party chairman’s Banani office in the capital. The forms will be available from 10am to 4pm every day till November 23. The party will publish the list of final candidates of Jatiya Party on November 28. ...

At least sixteen arson attacks were recorded till 9am on Monday during the 48-hour hartal called by BNP, Jammat and some like-minded parties. A total of 16 vehicles were set on fire by miscreants during this time and three of those were set on fire inside Dhaka city, said Talha Bin Zashim, station officer of Fire Service and Civil Defense ...

Jagannath University (JnU) student Khadijatul Kubra was released from Kashimpur jail on bail on Monday in two separate cases filed under the Digital Security Act, after around 15 months of her arrest. Confirming the matter, Khadiza’s sister Sirajum Munira said, “We came here early in the morning. Khadiza walked out of the prison at 9am. Her semester final exam is ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday sought robust foreign investment in Bangladesh saying her government has been taking every possible measure to attract overseas investment. “We’re taking various measures as foreign investment in larger volume can come to Bangladesh,” she said, reports BSS. The premier said these while opening the two-day programme marking the 60th anniversary of the Foreign Investors ...