Awami League has been a registered party since 1972. The party may participate in elections unless the government or the judiciary imposes a ban on it, said Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) AMM Nasir Uddin on Monday. During a meeting with election officials at Chittagong Circuit House this morning, the CEC made this comment. “Since the Awami League is a registered ...

Deputy police commissioner M Tanvir Ahmed has been removed from secretariat after the fire incident. An order was issued on December 29 transferring him as DC of POM-South Division of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP). Tanvir Ahmed was in charge of the security division at the secretariat. Mohammad Billal Hossain has been appointed as the new DC of secretariat security. DC ...

A court in Dhaka on Monday placed former home minister Hasanul Haque Inu on a four-day fresh remand in a murder case of one Bahadur Hossain Monir during student-led July-August mass uprising. The court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Sharifur Rahman passed this order as police produced Inu before the court and pleaded to place him on a 10-day remand in ...

Michael Chakma, leader of the United People’s Democratic Front (UPDF), on Monday morning submitted an written complaint to the tribunal where former prime minister Sheikh Hasina has been the prime accused of her enforced disappearance. Earlier on December 18, he filed an oral complaint against nine, including Sheikh Hasina, to the office of the chief prosecutor. Then the ICT took ...

The Boro season has started in Sunamganj district, but the majority of flood protection embankments in the area remain unfinished, with only minimal work done on a few of them. According to regulations, the construction of the embankments in Shantiganj upazila was supposed to begin on December 15 and be completed by February 28. However, this deadline has not been ...

Jimmy Carter, the 100-year-old former US president and Nobel peace laureate who rose from humble beginnings in rural Georgia to lead the nation from 1977 to 1981, has died, his nonprofit foundation said Sunday. Carter had been in hospice care since mid-February 2023 at his home in Plains, Georgia — the same small town where he was born and once ...

There will be no transaction at banks and financial institutions across the country as the bank holiday on December 31. Two stock markets will also remain close on Tuesday. But important branches of the banks will remain open, but no transaction will be held. During bank holidays, no transactions are conducted by Bangladesh Bank, any bank to bank, or bank ...

Former Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Sanjida Afrin has been temporarily suspended, according to the Ministry of Home Affairs. She is currently serving in the Armed Police Battalion (APBn). According to a notification of the ministry, Sanjida was suspended under the Government Service Rules Act. During this period, she will be attached to the Barishal Range ...

Dhaka University (DU) authorities have decided to officially declare Metro Rail pillar number 541, located near the anti-terrorism Raju Sculpture, as a “Hate-Stone.” The pillar features defaced graffiti of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, which has come to symbolize public opposition to authoritarianism and fascism. The announcement follows an incident involving the erasure of graffiti, an act that sparked outrage ...

In an oblique reference to Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has alleged that an Islamic party has occupied a bank after August 5. “Banks were looted and occupied by Awami League before August 5, while an Islamic party occupied a bank after August 5,” he told reporters after paying tributes to the graveyard of Shaheed ...