by Liakat Ali Badal in Dhaka Tribune 25 Dec 2023Jatiya Party (JaPa) Chairman and party candidate for Rangpur-3 GM Quader claimed on Sunday that northern Bangladesh, the Rangpur region in particular, has been facing discrimination and deprivation in both political and development fields for a long time. “The people of Rangpur have always faced discrimination in both politics and development as JaPa Party is the biggest political party of the northern region… the whole northern…
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by Rejaul Karim Byron in Daily Star,Dec 21, 2023Bangladesh’s debt service to revenue ratio is projected to cross the 100 percent mark for the first time owing to rising loans and lower tax and export receipts, highlighting the growing risk to the country’s capacity to repay. The debt service-to-revenue and grants ratio stood at 58.7 percent in the fiscal year of 2020-21 but it surged to 72 percent in FY22 and 71.8 percent in the…
report in The Daily Star, Dec 17, 2023Bangladesh Congress has threatened to withdraw all its 121 candidates from the electoral race alleging that the ruling Awami League wants to extend its stay in power by holding an election through sharing seats. Speaking at a press conference at Dhaka Reporters Unity, party Chairman Kazi Rezaul Hossen yesterday said they do not want to be used as the ladder for any party’s route to power. Today is…
report in The daily Star, Dec 17, 2023The United States has recognised the Rohingya situation as a “priority” and pledged to continue to increase the number of Rohingyas, including those from Bangladesh, resettled through the USRAP in fiscal 2024. The US also encouraged third countries to expand Rohingya resettlement, said the US Department of State yesterday. New pledges from the United States were announced at the 2023 Global Refugee Forum. The country pledged to continue…
Report in Prothom Alo, Dec 09, 2023Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has written a letter to the office of the secretary general of the United Nations (UN), seeking its constructive and collaborative role amidst the ongoing pressure on Bangladesh. With Earle Courtenay Rattray, chef de cabinet at executive office of the secretary general, in the address line, the letter noted that Bangladesh is facing ‘undue, unwarranted, and vested political pressure’ from different corners ahead of…
By Partha Pratim Bhattacharjee in The Daily Star, Dec 06, 2023The decision on Awami League’s seat-sharing with the 14-party alliance partners seems to be stalled over the demands from Bangladesh Workers Party and Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD). According to sources, the AL wants to share two seats with each of the parties, but Workers Party and the JSD seek to have the same number of seats they were given in the 2018 national election. Currently,…
report in Prothom Alo, Nov 26, 2023Gano Forum (a section), Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD), and Bangladesh People’s Party have declared to boycott the upcoming parliamentary election. They made the declaration through separate press releases on Saturday night, saying they will not join any election under the current election commission as well as the current government. Gano Forum and People’s Party held a joint meeting at the former’s office on Saturday afternoon, with Gano Forum president…
Report in The Daily Star, Nov 24, 2023Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has accused US Ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Haas of grossly interfering in Bangladesh’s internal affairs. “At the end of October, US Ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Haas met a member of the local opposition to discuss plans for organising anti-government rallies. Such actions amount to nothing less than gross interference in internal affairs,” she said in a briefing in Moscow. Russian Embassy in…
Report in The Daily Star, Nov 21, 2023Bangladesh Hindu-Buddhist-Christian Oikya Parishad yesterday demanded that the safety of minorities is ensured before and after the national polls. Rana Dasgupta, general secretary of the parishad, presented a statement in this regard at a press conference held in Jatiya Press Club. “We want religious and ethnic minority voters to feel secure when going to polling centres and for candidates not to face any obstacles in their candidacy,” read…
report in Prothom Alo, Nov 21, 2023The United States has condemned recent violence against garment workers in Bangladesh protesting over the minimum wage and criminalisation of legitimate worker and trade union activities. “We are also concerned about the ongoing repression of workers and trade unions. Our principle, as we have stated before, is that government must ensure that workers are able to exercise their rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining without fear of…
AFP report, Nov 20, 2023DHAKA: Bangladesh’s highest court on Sunday upheld a ban on the country’s largest Islamist party taking part in polls, lawyers said, as political tensions worsen ahead of key January elections. Jamaat-i-Islami, a major opposition party with millions of supporters, was banned from contesting polls in 2013 after high court judges ruled its charter violated the secular constitution of the Muslim-majority nation of 170 million people. Jamaat was also barred from participating…