The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has announced seven days of mourning following the death of party chairperson and the country’s first female prime minister Khaleda Zia. The announcement was made by the party’s Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi at Evercare Hospital on Tuesday. Black flags would be flown for seven days at the BNP’s central office in Nayapaltan ...

BNP Chairperson and former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia has passed away while undergoing treatment at Evercare Hospital in Dhaka early Tuesday (December 30). She breather her last ataround 6:00am, confirmed BNP media cellin a Facebook post. Begum Khaleda Zia had been admitted to hospital on November 23 with breathing difficulties caused by a lung infection. Her condition later worsened ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has submitted his nomination paper to contest the 13th national parliamentary election from the Thakurgaon-1 constituency. He handed over the nomination paper to Returning Officer and Deputy Commissioner Ishrat Farzana on Monday morning. After submitting the nomination at the district administration office, Mirza Fakhrul said reporters, ”We achieved our voting rights after a ...

The DNCC Administrator Mohammad Ejaz inaugurated the health insurance coverage programme at the Nagar Bhaban today. DNCC Chief Waste Management Officer Commodore ABM Shamsul Alam presided over the programme. “I think there should be health insurance for cleaners in all government and private offices. Despite the growing population of Dhaka, the number of our employees remains limited. We are working ...

Shooting of the film “Pritilata”, based on revolutionary freedom fighter Pritilata Waddedar, is set to resume in the new year, director Rashid Polash has said. Two films on Pritilata began production in 2020. In Pradip Ghosh’s “Bir Konnya Pritilata”, the role was played by Nusrat Imrose Tisha, and the film was released in 2023. However, Rashid Polash’s “Pritilata”, starring Porimoni ...

Dhaka is a city of memory and nostalgia, especially in winter, when familiar visions from the past surface. Across its roads, lanes, and markets, the city quietly rewrites the biography of pre-loved clothing. A quiet intimacy is woven into these garments. A zipper remembers a winter in Beijing or Tokyo. A denim jacket holds the slope of another’s shoulder. A ...

The 43rd annual general meeting (AGM) of Sylhet Gas Fields Limited, a gas and petroleum products producing company under Petrobangla, was held on December 18. The meeting took place at Petrocentre, the company’s Dhaka liaison office, according to a press release. The meeting was presided over by the chairman of the board of directors, Abul Mansur Md Faizullah, and attended ...

Myanmar’s dominant pro-military party is “winning a majority” in the first phase of junta-run elections, a party source told AFP on Monday, after democracy watchdogs warned the poll would entrench military rule. The armed forces snatched power in a 2021 coup, but on Sunday opened voting in a phased month-long election they pledge will return power to the people. The ...

The price of gold has reached an all-time high in the country, hitting over Tk 2.29 lakh per bhori (11.664 grammes). Jewellers have increased the price of the precious yellow metal by Tk 1,575 to Tk 2,29,431 following a hike in the pure gold price in the local market. The Standing Committee on Pricing and Price Monitoring of the Bangladesh ...

England pace spearhead Gus Atkinson was Monday ruled out of the fifth and final Ashes Test against Australia with a hamstring injury, their third fast bowler to head home early during the series. The Surrey right-armer hobbled off early on day two of the fourth Test in Melbourne clutching his left leg and took no further part. “Gus Atkinson has ...