Admin officers to perform duties of local body chiefs聽
The government has temporarily empowered its officials to perform the duties of mayors of the city corporations and municipalities and chairmen of upazila parishads and...
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Theatre activists for democratic reform of BGTF, BPNP
Theatre activists on Monday demanded democratic reform of Bangladesh Group Theatre Federation, Bangladesh Path Natok Parishad and trial of recently resigned director general of the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy Liaquat Ali Lucky鈥檚 corruption...
Plain land nat鈥檒 minorities for representative in interim govt
Ethnic minority communities from the plain lands on Monday demanded a representative in the newly formed interim government...
Rupali Bank committee of Zia Parishad announced
The new Rupali Bank committee of Zia Parishad has been announced, according to a press release...
Rizvi, Parwar, Nur put on five-day remand in metro rail vandalism case
A Dhaka court on Sunday placed eight people, including BNP鈥檚 senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general Miah Golam Parwar and Gono Odhikar Parishad president Nurul Haque Nur on five-day remand in a case filed over setting fire to the metro rail station in Dhaka鈥檚 Mirpur.
Law enforcers torture Nur in remand: wife
Maria Akhter, wife of Gono Odhikar Parishad president and former vice-president of Dhaka University Central Students Union Nurul Haque Nur, alleged on Saturday that her husband was seriously tortured physically by the law enforcers during five-day remand...
Nur sent to jail in Setu Bhaban arson attack case
A Dhaka court on Friday sent former vice-president of Dhaka University Central Students鈥� Union Nurul Haque Nur to jail in a case filed over vandalising and setting fire to Setu Bhaban in Dhaka on July 18.
BCB focused on leg-spinners after Rishad success
Leg-spinners have always been a rare breed in the top levels of Bangladesh cricket.
UP chairman shot dead in Khulna
A union parishad chairman was shot to death in Gutudia area under Dumuria upazila in Khulna district Saturday night....
Mithu DAKATIA鈥檚 new president, Rasel secretary
Chandpur district Chhatra Kalyan Parishad at Dhaka University DAKATIA got a new executive committee for the 2024-25 term with Mithu Chandra Shil as president and Rasel Hossian Riaz as general secretary.....
Most upazila chairmen are loyal to MPs: Shujan
A Shushashoner Jonno Nagorik analysis showed that newly elected chairmen in most upazila parishads were relatives and loyal to lawmakers of their respective constituencies...
HC to give verdict on July 11
The High Court on Wednesday set July 11 for pronouncing its verdict on contempt of the court proceedings brought against Gana Odhikar Parishad faction president Md Nurul Haque Nur for making 鈥榙efamatory remarks鈥� about the judiciary and judges...
UPs to get administrator if election not held in time
The Local Government (Union Parishad) (Amendment) Bill, 2024 was passed in the parliament on Monday, introducing a provision for appointing administrators to union parishads after the elected representatives鈥� five-year tenure expires...
Matiur鈥檚 wife attends upazila meeting after 14 days
Raipura upazila parishad chairman Laila Kaniz Lucky, also the first wife of former National Board of Revenue member Matiur Rahman, attended a meeting in the upazila after 14 days of disappearance amid allegations against her and her husband for accumulating a huge quantity of illegal wealth...
Actions to save women, children from extreme weather demanded
Women鈥檚 rights activists and urban planners at a discussion on Monday called on city mayors to take measures to protect women and children from extreme weather in Dhaka...
Businessmen鈥檚 dominance in national, local politics bodes ill
BANGLADESH鈥橲 democratic backslide is manifest not only in the erosion of the electoral culture and the holding of managed elections but also in the complete dominance of businessmen in parliament and local government bodies...
Month-long upazila polls conclude
Chief election commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal on Sunday expressed his satisfaction over the upazila parishad elections saying that the elections were held...
Come, see how Benazir grabbed minority land, Rana Das Gupta tells PM
Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Oikya Parishad general secretary Rana Das Gupta urged prime minister Sheikh Hasina to visit Gopalganj and see how former inspector general of police...
Baghaichari UP polls postponed again
The Election Commission on Saturday postponed upazila parishad elections in Rangamati鈥檚 Baghaichhari upazila, scheduled for June 9, in fear of deterioration in the...
Rishad turns Bangladesh fortune
Bangladesh have waited for a leg-spinner for years. They got one nearly a decade ago but that shuttle misfired even before it took off, and then they had to wait until 2023 to...
Low turnout again in 4th phase of upazila polls聽
The month-long upazila parishad elections ended on Wednesday with the fourth and final phase, when voting was held in 60 upazilas of 26 districts...
Voting in 4th phase of upazila polls goes on in 60 upazilas
Voting in 60 upazilas for the fourth phase of the sixth Upazila Parishad Election began on Wednesday morning...
AL MPs influence upazila polls to cement power聽
Ministers and lawmakers of the ruling Awami League ensured their authority in upazila parishad defying party instructions as they helped their friends and...
Rajshahi lawmaker accuses upazila chair, UNO of murder plot
Rajshahi-1 constituency (Godagari and Tanore) lawmaker Omar Faruk Chowdhury accused the Godagari upazila parishad chairman and the upazila nirbahi officer of organising a gathering at the upazila parishad with the alleged intention of killing him...
Irregularities mark third phase of upazila polls
Massive irregularities, rigging, violence, and boycotts marked the third phase of the ongoing upazila parishad elections held on Wednesday amid low voter turnout...
300 BGB platoons deployed ahead of 3rd phase of upazila polls
A total of 300 platoons of Border Guard Bangladesh have been deployed across the country to maintain law and order during the 3rd phase of the 6th Upazila Parishad Election....
Candidates鈥� affidavits, tax returns mismatch
Anti-graft watchdog Transparency International Bangladesh found a mismatch between the affidavits and income tax returns of many wealthy candidates for the third phase of the upazila parishad election slated for May 29...
Polls at 19 upazilas postponed due to cyclone Remal
The Election Commission on Monday postponed the elections to 19 out of 109 upazila parishads in the third phase of the elections slated for May 29 in the context of the devastation caused by cyclone Remal...
Newspaper owners want PM鈥檚 attention to sustain industry
Bangladesh Sangbadpatra Shilpa Parishad, an organisation of the owners of newspapers, placed a 14-point demand including the payment of all outstanding advertisement bills owed by newspapers to government agencies, including Department of Films and Publications, by next June.....
Selim Pradhan鈥檚 house attacked in N鈥檊anj
Allegations of repeated attacks and gunfire occurred at the residence of Japan-Bangladesh Group鈥檚 chairman Selim Pradhan at Rupganj upazila in Narayanganj, in support of defeated candidates in the Rupganj upazila parishad elections...
