BNP Standing Committee Member Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan on Friday said the current government will take Bangladesh to a respectable position in the world. He also highlighted former President Ziaur Rahman’s contributions to the country’s economic recovery, agriculture, labour sector, fisher
A court in Cumilla on Tuesday sent Jisan Ahmed Pradhan, expelled assistant secretary for international affairs of Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir, to jail in connection with a case filed over rape and forced miscarriage. He was produced before the Judge of Chief Judicial Magistrate Court-3 Tayeb
The family of Jubo Dal leader Masudul Haque Chowdhury has filed a murder case in Chattogram, naming 'notorious criminal' Raihan as the prime suspect. Masudul's elder brother, former union council chairman Peyarul Islam, lodged the case with the Raozan Police Station late on Monday night, bdnews24.
Local Government Minister Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has dodged a direct question in parliament on whether members of the Awami League would be allowed to participate in local government elections. The issue was raised by Brahmanbaria-2 lawmaker Rumeen Farhana on Monday during discussion on a cut
Jisan Ahmed, a central leader of Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student front of Jamaat e Islami, was shown arrested on Saturday morning in a rape case filed by a woman from Daudkandi upazila of Cumilla. Jisan is currently admitted to the prison ward of Cumilla Medical College Hospital - even though p
Local Government Minister and BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday said research on life, work and political philosophy of martyred President Ziaur Rahman remains inadequate, stressing the need for comprehensive academic studies on his contributions. “Whenever we try t
National Citizen Party (NCP) Convenor Nahid Islam has said the budget proposed by the BNP government lacks initiatives to address the fragility of banking sector, the energy and power sector crisis, and unemployment issues. Talking to journalists at the Chattogram Circuit House on Friday in the pr
Jamaat-e-Islami has torn into the BNP government’s proposed budget, calling it “overly debt-dependent, unimplementable and wide open to looting”. The party demanded immediate revisions to restructure the fiscal package into a public-welfare, investment-friendly, and employment-or
The National Citizen Party (NCP) on Thursday dismissed the government’s proposed Tk 9.38 trillion budget for fiscal year 2026-27 as overly ambitious and detached from economic reality, warning that the actual deficit could be nearly double the official figure. Reacting to the budget placed b
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami on Thursday staged a protest rally in the capital immediately after the presentation of the proposed national budget for the 2026-27 fiscal year, describing it as "anti-people but loot-friendly," and expressing their dissatisfaction with the additional tax burdens it impo
Opposition Jamaat-e-Islami has proposed a Tk 8.39 trillion “shadow budget” ahead of the government’s spending plan for the 2026-27 fiscal year. The proposal prioritises public administration, law and order, anti-corruption reforms, revenue collection, debt servicing, and investme
The United States Ambassador to Bangladesh, Brent T. Christensen, paid a courtesy call on the Leader of the Opposition in the Bangladesh National Parliament, Md. Shafiqur Rahman, on Tuesday. The meeting was held at the Office of the Leader of the Opposition in the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban, where the
Although a significant number of people in the society are aware of the provision requiring 33 per cent women’s representation within political parties by 2030, they believe that political parties are not taking sufficient action to fulfil this obligation, according to a study. The study fou
