Jamaat calls FY27 budget debt-driven, looting-prone
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami on Friday branded the proposed national budget for FY2026-27 as heavily debt-dependent, unrealistic and conducive to looting, saying it would increase pressure on ordinary people and weaken investment and employment. The party, the main opposition in parliament, gave its formal budget reaction at a press conference at its central office in Moghbazar, Dhaka. Jamaat...
151-member Jubo Dal central committee announced
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has approved a 151-member full-fledged Central Executive Committee of its youth wing, Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal, appointing Abdul Monayem Munna as President and Mohammad Nurul Islam Nayon as General Secretary. The committee was approved on Thursday (June 4), according to a statement issued by BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Advocate Ruhul Kabir Rizvi....
Former Narayanganj mayor Ivy freed on bail
Former Narayanganj City Corporation mayor Selina Hayat Ivy was released on bail from Kashimpur Central Women’s Jail in Gazipur on Wednesday night. She walked out of the prison at 10:10pm after jail authorities completed the release process following verification of bail documents in 12 cases filed against her. Inspector General of Prisons Brig Gen Syed Muhammad Motahar Hossain confirmed...
Fakhrul urges vigilance against instability attempts
BNP Secretary General and Local Government Minister Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has urged people to remain alert and aware to resist any attempt to create instability in the country. Speaking as the chief guest at a civic reception at the Ruhea High School ground in Thakurgaon on Wednesday (June 3), Fakhrul said a quarter was trying to destabilise the country. “Everyone must remain alert...
Tofail Ahmed laid to rest beside parents in Bhola
Veteran politician Tofail Ahmed was laid to rest beside his parents at the family graveyard in Bhola on Tuesday (June 2). He was buried in Koralia village under Dakshin Dighaldi union of Bhola Sadar upazila in the afternoon. Earlier, his second namaz-e-janaza was held at Bhola Government High School ground around 2:15pm. Thousands of people from different walks of life attended the funeral...
Tofail Ahmed passes away
Veteran politician Tofail Ahmed, one of the organisers of the 1969 mass uprising and the Liberation War, died at Square Hospital in the capital on Monday afternoon (June 1). He was 81. Family sources said Tofail breathed his last around 3:30pm while undergoing treatment at the hospital. Hospital authorities said in a press release that he had been admitted on September 24 with...
Democracy returns, but propaganda persists: Rizvi
BNP Senior Joint Secretary General and Prime Minister’s Adviser Advocate Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has said a democratic environment has returned to the country, allowing political parties to express opinions freely and criticise the government. But, he said, the politics of propaganda and falsehood had not stopped. Rizvi made the remarks as chief guest at a roundtable organised by the...
Ziaur Rahman’s ideals, philosophy, nationalism still alive: Mahmuda Habiba
Newly elected Member of Parliament (MP) Mahmuda Habiba has said that although former President Ziaur Rahman was assassinated, his ideals, philosophy, and the spirit of Bangladeshi nationalism he founded remain alive and could not be destroyed. She added that even today, Ziaur Rahman’s name is invoked in discussions on independence, sovereignty, democracy, and national interest. Mahmuda...
45th martyrdom anniversary of Ziaur Rahman observed with solemnity
The 45th martyrdom anniversary of Shaheed President Ziaur Rahman, proclaimer of the country’s independence, a sector commander of the Liberation War, BNP founder and advocate of multi-party democracy, is being observed today across the country with due respect and solemnity. Ziaur Rahman was killed on May 30, 1981, at the Chattogram Circuit House in what BNP describes as a domestic and...
Ziaur Rahman’s 45th martyrdom anniversary to be observed tomorrow
The 45th martyrdom anniversary of former President Ziaur Rahman, proclaimer of independence, Liberation War sector commander and founder of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), will be observed tomorrow with various programmes across the country. Ziaur Rahman was killed on May 30, 1981, at the Chattogram Circuit House by a group of disgruntled army officers. To mark the occasion, BNP has...
BNP announces 8-day programme marking Ziaur Rahman’s death anniversary
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has announced an eight-day programme to observe the 45th martyrdom anniversary of the party’s founder and former president Ziaur Rahman. The programmes include hoisting black flags nationwide, discussion meetings, photo exhibitions, prayer gatherings, and the distribution of food and clothing among underprivileged people. The announcement was made on...
Union BNP leader hacked to death in Araihazar
A union-level BNP leader was hacked to death in Narayanganj’s Araihazar upazila following a dispute over illegal soil extraction using an excavator. The incident took place around 12:45am on Wednesday night (May 20), in the Kaundar Chak area near a beel at Panchgaon Charpara under Duptara union of the upazila. The victim was Osman Gani, 40, general secretary of Brahmandi union BNP. He was...
Jamaat won't come to power in future: Mirza Fakhrul
BNP Secretary General and Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Minister Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said Jamaat-e-Islami will not be able to come to power in Bangladesh in the future. He made the remarks at a reception programme in Thakurgaon on Wednesday (May 20), after visiting Thakurgaon Airport. Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Afroza Khanam Rita and State...
ICT indicts Hasnat Abdullah, 3 others over extrajudicial killings
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-2 today framed charges in a crimes against humanity case against former lawmaker Abul Hasnat Abdullah and three others over the extrajudicial killings of two Chhatra Dal and JASAS leaders in Barishal. The second tribunal passed the order on Monday, fixing June 17 for the prosecution’s opening statement and the start of witness testimony. The other...
Govt to sign no deal against national interest: Mirza Fakhrul
BNP Secretary General and Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Minister Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said the government will not sign any agreement that undermines Bangladesh’s national interest. He made the remarks on Saturday while addressing a discussion organised by BNP at the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh in Dhaka, marking the historic Farakka Long March Day....
ICT verdict in Inu crimes case any day
The International Crimes Tribunal-2 (ICT) has kept for verdict the crimes against humanity case against Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-Jasad President Hasanul Haq Inu. The tribunal passed the order on Thursday (May 14) after the hearing concluded in the case. Inu, a former minister and a leader of the Awami League-led 14-party alliance, is the lone accused in the case filed over alleged crimes...
Former minister Engineer Mosharraf Hossain passes away
Former housing and public works minister Engineer Mosharraf Hossain passed away on Wednesday (May 13) at the age of 83. Mosharraf, a presidium member of the now-banned Awami League and former lawmaker from Chattogram-1, Mirsharai, breathed his last while undergoing treatment at Square Hospital in the capital around 10:15am. Family sources said he had been suffering from age-related...
A frustrated group wants to make society unstable: Fakhrul
Local Government, Rural Development (LGRD) and Cooperatives Minister Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday said a frustrated group is trying to keep the country unstable and divert recent political changes in a different direction. “I do not want to mention any specific party or individual. Our politics is not clean or healthy. Time and again, people have fought for change and sacrificed...
ICT-1 to issue indictment order against Nanak, Taposh, 26 others May 10
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 today fixed May 10 for passing its order on charge framing in a case filed over alleged crimes against humanity committed in Mohammadpur during the July Mass Uprising, involving 28 accused including former minister Jahangir Kabir Nanak and former Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh. The first tribunal, headed by Justice...
