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by Senior Correspondent in bdnews24.com, May 3, 2018 at 14:59:30.0 BdST Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali has said the government has written to the home office in the UK for extradition of BNP leader Tarique Rahman. He was addressing a press briefing on Thursday regarding OIC foreign ministers’ meeting to be held in Dhaka on May 5-6. “We have got responses from the UK home office while we have already written several letters,” he said…

report in Dhaka Tribune, May 3, 2018 at 10:52 PM Police in Khulna and Gazipur have “created a reign of fear” among BNP leaders and workers ahead of the upcoming city corporation elections in both metropolises, a standing committee member of the main opposition party said on Thursday. BNP leaders believe the situation is so tense, the Election Commission should withdraw the commissioner of Khulna Metropolitan Police and the superintendent of police in Gazipur in…

report in Prothom Alo, May 03, 2018 at 20:39 hrs The opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday said people will not accept if the next general election is held without resolving the ‘ongoing political crisis’. “Resolve the crisis first, and then arrange the election. If the election is held without solving the problem, it’ll be another 2014-like elections. The country’s people won’t accept such polls,” he said. The BNP…

by Afrose Jahan Chaity in Dhaka Tribune,May 03, 2018 The helpless Rohingya refugees who fled to Bangladesh since late August last year to escape a brutal military campaign in Myanmar’s Rakhine state are now facing another threat – human trafficking. Life in the cramped camps is tough. Many of the Rohingyas are trying to escape the camps to build a better future for themselves and their families. Human traffickers are taking advantage of this situation.…

report in Prothom Alo, May 2, 2018 at: 21:43hrs Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday said no political party of the country would accept announcement of the polls schedule before a solution to the poll-time government. At a press conference on delimitation of parliamentary seats at Nirbachan Bhaban in Agargaon on Monday, election commissioner Md Rafiqul Islam said the schedule for 11th Jatiya Sangsad (JS) election will be announced…

by Fazlur Rahman Raju in Dhaka Tribune, May 1, 2018 at 09:27 PM Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) took down the website of Voice of Journalist BD after the website conducted an online public opinion survey on the popularity of the candidates standing for the upcoming 11th national election. BTRC banned the website addressed as vojbd.com on the night of April 27, according to a BTRC official. On the same night, Dhaka Tribune tried contacting…

report in Dhaka Tribune, May 1, 2018 at 08:48 PM Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday came down heavily on a section of labour leaders for their “efforts to defame the country by lodging complaints with foreigners.” “As long as I remain in power, there will be no benefit in lodging complaints with anybody outside this country… I’m the daughter of the Father of the Nation and I run the state by loving the country…

The Daily Star, May 1, 2018 Nepal and Bangladesh will be connected via a tunnel to promote transnational road link, reports The Kathmandu Post quoting Matrika Prasad Yadav, Nepalese minister for industry, commerce and supply. Inaugurating the third conference of small- and medium-sized enterprises from China and South Asian countries in the Capital on Sunday, Minister Yadav said a tunnel would be constructed to connect the two countries with the shortest route. A stretch of…

report in Prothom Alo, Apr 28, 2018 at 15:47 hrs The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) on Saturday alleged that its ‘critically ill’ chairperson Khaleda Zia cannot be taken to a specialised hospital for better treatment as a file in this regard remains stuck at the Prime Minister’s Office. Besides, Khaleda’s three personal physicians feared that she can be crippled and can lose her eyesight if she is not given proper treatment immediately in any specialised…

report in Prothom Alo, Apr 28, 2018 at 17:36 hrs Amid physicians concern over her health condition, three senior BNP leaders, led by party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, entered the jail to meet their party chairperson Khaleda Zia. Fakhrul together with BNP standing committee members Mirza Abbas and Nazrul Islam Khan reached the jail gate around 3:30pm on Saturday. Around 20 minutes later, jail authorities took them inside the jail. Earlier on 19…