report in Prothom Alo, 03 Jan 2023Foreign minister AK Abdul Momen on Monday said that Bangladesh’s ambassadors to other countries have been instructed to speak up against false allegations made against Bangladesh themselves and not wait for an official response from Dhaka. On Sunday, the foreign minister presided over an interministerial meeting, where law minister Anisul Huq, home minister Asaduzzaman Khan and senior officials of law enforcement agencies were present. In the meeting, it was…
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report in Prothom Alo, Dec 25, 2022Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) will hold country-wide mass processions on Saturday with 10 demands, which includes resignation of ruling Awami League and holding the next general elections under a neutral caretaker government. Ganatantra Mancha, 12-party alliance, LDP, Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh and other opposition parties have also declared their support to the movement. Sources said that with this programme the opposition parties are starting their simultaneous movement to oust the government.…
report in Prothom Alo, Dec 23 2022Ambassadors “need to understand the political history of Bangladesh” before making any public statement, said Bangladesh’s State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md. Shahriar Alam to the US on Thursday. He had a telephone call with US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman in the evening. The deputy secretary and state minister discussed mutual priorities in bilateral relations. Shahriar and Sherman also talked about the issues of mutual commitment to…
report in Prothom Alo, 21 Dec 2022Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) has termed opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s 27-point demands as a “black deed” of legitimating war criminals, killers, radicals and militants and establishing political partnership with them behind the curtain of demanding political reform, reports news agency BSS. The party on Tuesday said this in a statement signed by its president Hasanul Haq Inu and general secretary Shirin Akhter. De facto opposition BNP has announced to…
By Selim Zahid in Prothom Alo, 14 Dec 2022After rolling out the 10-point demands including parliamentary elections under a non-partisan caretaker government, Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) will now announce state reforms. Following that, the party wants to start a larger simultaneous movement against the government in a non-violent way. Party sources said they will announce soon as to what fundamental reforms they will bring along with other anti-government political parties. The party will announce a…
report in Prothom Alo, Dec 13, 2022Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami ameer (chief) Shafiqur Rahman was picked up by detective branch (DB) of police from his residence in Dhaka in the small hours of Tuesday, alleged the party. Prothom Alo could not immediately talk to DB officials regarding the allegation of Jamaat-e-Islami. Jamaat-e-Islami leaders said the DB men ransacked the home before picking Shafiqur Rahman up at around 2:00am Tuesday. The DB men also snatched the mobile phone…
by Tuhin Shubhra Adhikary in The Daily Star, Dec 10, 2022A Chinese state-owned company has proposed to implement Dhaka-Chattogram High Speed Railway Project by forming a company, where China will have an 80 percent share. China Railway Design Corporation (CRDC), a subsidiary of state-owned China State Railway Group Co Ltd, proposed to implement the project following BOO (build-own-operate) model. BOO is a project delivery mechanism in which a government entity sells to a private sector…
Reuters report, Dec 10, 2022 at 01.45hrsWashington: The White House on Friday called on the government of Bangladesh to fully investigate reports of violence against journalists and human rights activists ahead of a major political protest, and urged all parties to refrain from violence. Local media in Bangladesh this week reported police killed one person and wounded more than 60 people on Wednesday in Dhaka when they fired upon activists and members of the Bangladesh…
by AKM Zamir Uddin in The Daily Star, Dec 7, 2022Bangladesh’s current account deficit widened further in October as imports continued to surge compared to the combined receipts from exports and remittances. The current account records a nation’s transactions with the rest of the world, specifically its net trade in goods and services. For Bangladesh, it stood at $4.5 billion in deficit at the end of October, data from the Bangladesh Bank showed. A year…
report in Dhaka Tribune, Dec 7, 2022Bangladesh and India on Tuesday reiterated their commitment to further deepen and strengthen mutual cooperation in the security and border-related issues. The outcome came as the 18th meeting of the Joint Working Group (JWG) on security and border management between Bangladesh and India was held on December 5-6, according to a media statement issued by the Indian Ministry of Home Affairs. The Indian delegation was led by Piyush Goyal,…
Report in Prothom Alo, Nov 30, 2022Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) wants to organise its rally in Dhaka on 10 December at Naya Paltan, where the party’s central office is located. The party’s curiousity, however, has been sparked off by the government’s proposal for BNP to organise its rally at Suhrawardy Udyan, and by the ruling Awami League announcement to hold the conference of its student wing, the Bangladesh Chhatra League, two days ahead of schedule…