The hearing on the petition filed by Jamaat-e-Islami challenging the High Court order for revoking the registration of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami as a political party, deferred till November 19. A five-member bench of the Appellate Division led by Chief Justice Obaidul Hassan passed the order as the counsel for Jamaat-e-Islami filed a petition seeking time. The SC also fixed November 19 ...

Opposition BNP leaders and workers are instigating the ongoing movement of ready-made garment workers in the country, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has alleged. He made the allegation while responding to a question of a reporters at his office at the secretariat in the capital early Sunday (November 12) afternoon. The garment workers took to the street in different parts ...

Islami Andolan Bangladesh (IAB) will hold a mass rally towards the Election Commission on that day when the election schedule will be announced. Its Ameer Charmonai Pir Syed Muhammad Rezaul Karim announced the programme at a press briefing on Sunday at the party’s Purana Paltan office. He said that if the government wants to announce the schedule unilaterally, then a ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday inaugurated the newly constructed Ghorashal-Palash Urea Fertiliser Factory (GPUFF) in Narsingdi, the largest of its kind in the Southeast Asia, which is expected to help slash fertiliser imports significantly. She opened the environment friendly energy saving and modern technology based factory with production capacity of 9.24 lakh MT of fertilizer annually by unveiling the ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today pledged to eliminate leprosy from the county by 2030, urging the local drug manufacturing factories to produce quality medicines for the treatment of leprosy patients. “We are firmly committed to erasing the leprosy from the country by 2030,” she said while opening the second national leprosy conference-2023 at a city hotel, reports BSS. The premier ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday placed five recommendations to stop the brutal Israeli aggression against Palestine that continues unabated, despite calls from global communities for an immediate end. She proposed the suggestions in a recorded speech broadcast at the 8th Extraordinary Islamic Summit kicking off on November 9 in Riyadh. The summit was convened at the invitation of the ...

World’s leading learning company and the UK’s largest awarding body, Pearson, in collaboration with the British Council, hosted its 10th High Achievers’ Award Ceremony on Saturday for students in Bangladesh who achieved outstanding results in their International GCSE and A Level examinations in 2022 & 2023. The Award Ceremony was held at the Hall of Fame of Bangabandhu International Conference ...

A total of 152 platoons of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) have been deployed across the country to maintain law and order as the latest 48-hour countrywide blockade called by the BNP, Jamaat and like-minded opposition parties is underway. Shariful Islam, public relations officer (PRO) at BGB headquarters, confirmed the development on Sunday morning. Today, on the first day of the ...

Police said that blockade supporters torched the buses in Arambagh, Gabtali, Gulistan, and Jatrabari areas of the capital. According to the fire service, a passenger bus of Lal Sabuj Paribahan was set on fire in front of Notre Dame College at 8:20 pm. Upon receiving information, two units of firefighters from Siddique Bazar Fire Station promptly brought the fire under ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said BNP and its allies only know how to destroy the good things her government creates. “They (BNP and its allies) only know how to destroy, not to create. We create and they destroy,” she said. The prime minister said this while inaugurating the Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar rail communication. Recalling the horrible days when BNP-Jamaat ...