Paris, Feb 25 (IANS) A leading international human rights organisation strongly condemned the recent “misconduct” by lawyers at the Court of the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate in Bangladesh’s Barishal district over the granting of bail to several leaders of the Awami League. Expressing concern over the incident, Justice Makers Bangladesh in France (JMBF), a Paris-based human rights organisation, alleged that lawyers aligned with the ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) were engage…
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Dhaka, Feb 25 (IANS) Bangladesh’s Awami League on Wednesday paid homage to those who lost their lives in the 2009 Pilkhana massacre and called for an end to “political exploitation” of the incident.Slamming the previous interim regime, the party highlighted that the former Muhammad Yunus-led administration had acquitted 293 convicted individuals linked to the 2009 Pilkhana massacre that killed 74 people, including army officers and civilians.Marking the anniversary of the incident on Wednesday, …
Dhaka, Feb 24 (IANS) Bangladesh’s Awami League (AL) is showing signs of revival with grassroots leaders and activists recently reopening offices across several districts in the country, raising national and party flags, putting up party posters and banners, while facing no clampdowns on their activity, a report said on Tuesday. It added that such moves are more than mere formalities; they signal a strong political presence and send a “psychological message” to party activists that the part…
Dhaka, Feb 24 (IANS) A prosecutor of Bangladesh’s International Crime Tribunal (ICT) accused the outgoing Chief Prosecutor of the tribunal, Mohammad Tajul Islam, of corruption and irregularities, alleging that a syndicate led by him had turned the “Chair of the Chief Prosecutor” into a money-making tool.In a social media post on Monday, Prosecutor BM Sultan Mahmud levelled allegations of multiple irregularities against Tajul as well as fellow prosecutor Gazi Monawar Hossain Tamim, citing money e…
Kolkata, Feb 23 (IANS) The Greater Siliguri Hoteliers’ Association (GSHA), a leading hoteliers’ body based in Siliguri in West Bengal’s Darjeeling district, on Monday lifted the ban on renting hotel rooms to citizens of neighbouring Bangladesh, nearly 13 months after the restriction was imposed.The ban was enforced last year as a mark of protest against what the association described as a series of anti-India activities and incidents involving attacks and killings of minority Hindus in Ban…
Agartala, Feb 21 (IANS) The cross-border bus service linking Agartala, Dhaka and Kolkata is likely to resume soon on a regular basis, bringing to an end a suspension that lasted for over a year, officials said on Saturday. Government-owned Tripura Road Transport Corporation (TRTC) Vice-Chairman Samar Roy said that trial runs of the Agartala-Dhaka-Kolkata bus service commenced on Saturday. He added that the schedule for regular operations would be announced on February 28 after assessing the outc…
Washington, Feb 19 (IANS) Sajeeb Wazed, the son of Bangladesh’s ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, has questioned the legality of an ordinance used by the interim government to ban the Awami League, saying the country’s new BNP-led administration faces a 30-day constitutional deadline to decide its fate. In a statement, Wazed said the interim government amended the Anti-Terrorism Act, 2009, through a new ordinance to grant itself the authority to prohibit a political party’s activities….
Dhaka, Feb 19 (IANS) Business confidence weakened, industrial production slowed, and there were no significant new initiatives or major domestic or foreign investments in Bangladesh under the leadership of Muhammad Yunus who had taken over as the Chief Advisor of the interim government during a crucial period following the fall of government led by former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in August 2024, a report has highlighted. According to renowned economist and former Vice-Chancellor of Jahangirn…
New Delhi, Feb 18 (IANS) When the general election is held on March 5 in Nepal, former Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli will be among the candidates aspiring to govern the tiny Himalayan country, unlike its South Asian neighbour, Bangladesh, where former premier Sheikh Hasina had to flee and seek refuge in India. The two countries witnessed the fall of respective governments in the face of youth unrest; both had interim governments running the country before the next general election, but the intens…
New Delhi, Feb 18 (IANS) A resurgent Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami is asserting itself politically, as is evident from its anted-up position on immediate constitutional reforms, directing its ire at the newly-formed government led by BNP’s Tarique Rahman.In June last year, the registration of Bangladesh’s largest Islamic party was restored more than a decade after it was banned by the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League government.Its re-emergence follows a turbulent past where the part…