Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina formally inaugurated the sale of party’s nomination forms on Saturday through purchasing her nomination paper. On behalf of her, Gopalganj-3 seat leaders collected the nomination paper for the upcoming 12th national election. The AL chief inaugurated the nomination paper selling at the party’s central office at Bangabandhu Avenue at 10am The sale of nominations will ...

Trinamool Bangladesh National Party (Trinamool BNP) will start selling its nomination papers on Saturday among aspirant candidates for the upcoming general elections. Trinamool BNP’s nomination form sale will begin at 11am at its Topkhana road office in Dhaka, a press release said. An aspirant can collect nomination form by submitting a pay order of Tk 5,000. The interviews of aspirant ...

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen on Friday said all parties will have to demonstrate willingness and sincerity to stop violence, noting that the election-centric violence is in a declining trend. “We will not allow anyone to obstruct the polls. We hope all parties will demonstrate sincerity and willingness to stop violence,” he told reporters after attending a function in the ...

The Cyclonic storm “Midhili” is likely to move North-Southeastwards and may cross Mongla-Payra coast near Khepupara by Friday evening. The periphery of the cyclone may start crossing the coast by noon, said a latest bulletin of the cyclone warning center in the capital on Friday. The Cyclonic storm over North-West Bay and adjoining area moved north-northeastwards on the same area ...

Four members of a family were killed when a mud wall of a house collapsed due to heavy rain in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf upazila early Friday. The incident happened around 3:00am in Panirchhara area area of Morichyaghona under Hnila union of the upazila. The deceased were Anwara Begum, 50, wife of Fakir Mohammad, a resident of that area, her son ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday said It is time for all to unite as one world and demand the end of the conflict going on in Palestine. “Here, I express my profound concern at the tragic, inhuman existence of the hapless Palestinians in the face of merciless carnage. It is time for all of us to unite as one ...

Amid various media reports that US Ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Haas was heading for the USA today, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said they are aware of his whereabouts. During a press briefing today (16 November), Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Seheli Sabrin said the ministry, however, does not publicly disclose the whereabouts of any ambassador. “When ambassadors leave ...

The 3rd Committee of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly has adopted the annual resolution on the situation of human rights of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar by consensus. Jointly tabled by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the European Union (EU) on Wednesday, the resolution was cosponsored by 114 countries, marking the highest level of international ...

A Dhaka court on Thursday again fixed December 19 for submission of the probe report in the murder case of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi. With this, the deadline for submission of the probe report in the case was deferred for the 103rd time. Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) was supposed to submit the report today but as it ...

A Dhaka-bound commuter train was set on fire at Tangail Railway Station early today (Thursday). The incident happened at about 3:00am after Wednesday midnight. Witnesses saw at about 3:00am that three compartments were burning. Two compartments of the train were completely gutted in the fire. Tangail Fire Service and Civil Defence’s senior station officer Mohammad Idris said they brought the ...