by Porimol Palma in The Daily Star, Jul 6, 2023The assessment of the EU exploratory mission, which will visit Bangladesh for two weeks starting July 9, could determine the international acceptability of the next parliamentary election, analysts have said. The EU is sending the mission to observe the pre-polls atmosphere, and the response will determine whether it would send a team to observe the election. The initiative, the first of this kind with regard to…
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report in Prothom Alo, Jul 06, 2023The United States has condemned the murder of labour union organiser Shahidul Islam and called on Bangladesh authorities to investigate the crime thoroughly and hold the perpetrators accountable, reports news agency UNB. US ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Haas made the call on Wednesday. Ambassador Haas visited the headquarters of the Bangladesh Garments and Industrial Workers Federation to express condolences over labour leader Shahidul Islam’s death. The United States said…
by Anowar Hossain in Prothom Alo, June 29, 2023Members of the 14-party alliance want to start discussions on the poll-time government and distribution of seats right now. However, the Awami League, the leader of the alliance, has a different plan. The ruling party wants to fix these issues later, closer to the election. However, they want to involve the allies in programmes countering the activities of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). There is also talk…
by Selim Zahid in Prothom Alo, June 29, 2023Bangladesh National Party will organise rallies, marches and road marches throughout July as part of a final preparation of the one-point demand to oust the government, party insiders have said. The party will hold six rallies and six marches outside Dhaka. More programmes will be announced for Dhaka after Eid-ul-Azha to be celebrated on 29 June. Gonotantra Mancha will also organise separate rallies and road marches. BNP…
report in The Daily Star June 29, 2023Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen today said Bangladesh would get good news on human rights issues soon. “The United States is a friend of Bangladesh. They also want to strengthen relations with us. Bangladesh also believes in a balanced foreign policy to improve relations with all countries,” he told reporters at his Sylhet house. Momen said they are looking into the wrong information presented in the US…
by Mohammad Al-Masum Molla in The Daily Star, Jun 28, 2023The BNP wants to take its ongoing anti-government movement to the final stage within the next one or two months. Keeping this in mind, the party will announce its fresh anti-government programmes focusing on one-point demand, resignation of the government and election under a non-party polls-time government, from next month, said party sources. The BNP has already asked its leaders to go to their localities…
report in The Daily Star, Jun 28, 2023Some organisations are supplying false information to the United Nations with an intent to prevent army personnel from joining peacekeeping missions, create discontent in the armed forces, and thereby subdue Bangladesh, said Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday. Asked about Amnesty International urging the UN not to take in human rights violators in peacekeeping mission, Momen said they (Amnesty International) did not do it with an honest intent.…
by Mohammad Jamil Khan in The Daily Star, Jun 27, 2023A top leader of the militant outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islam (Huji) instructed Shamin Mahfuj to establish and initiate the formation of a new militant faction, which later became known as Jama’atul Ansar Fil Hindal Sharqiya. The Huji leader, Abu Sayeed, also known as Abu Jafar, who is an accused in the grenade attack on an Awami League rally on August 21, 2004, provided the directives during a…
report in Prothom Alo, June 27, 2023 BNP will soon launch their one-point movement to oust the current government, BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said. Talking to newsmen at BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office, the BNP leader also said that a suitable and acceptable framework for a polls-time neutral government will come out through discussions with all stakeholders to hold the next election in a fair and credible manner. “We’re basically on a…
report in The Daily Star, June 27, 2023At least 2,501 garment, textile, and jute product factories out of 3,164 across the country have not paid their workers 15 days’ wages for the month of June even though the government had asked them to do so before Eid. Only 663 factories paid the wages as of 7:30pm yesterday, according to data from the Industrial Police. However, 2,436 factories did pay the workers their Eid bonuses, the…