Dhaka, March 24 (IANS) Bangladesh’s Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Iqbal Hasan Mahmud has admitted that the normal fuel supply system has been disrupted in the country due to rise in consumer demand, local media reported on Tuesday. Speaking to reporters at the Secretariat in Dhaka on Tuesday, Mahmud said that the situation has emerged as the fuel at petrol pumps gets exhausted faster than usual, United News of Bangladesh reported.He said, “Earlier, tank lorries would be filled in …
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Kolkata, Feb 27 (IANS) Kolkata and its adjacent districts were jolted by two consecutive earthquake tremors on Friday afternoon, sending people rushing out of homes and offices in a panic.Tremors were felt throughout the city and its adjacent districts at 1.22 p.m.Several high-rise buildings in the city shook for several seconds.The epicentre of the earthquake was Khulna in Bangladesh. The magnitude of the tremor was 5.5 on the Richter scale. Many people left their homes and offices in fear and …
Dhaka, Feb 16 (IANS) At least nine people were injured, and a house was set ablaze amid escalating incidents of post-election violence in five districts across Bangladesh, local media reported.As violence intensified, six individuals sustained injuries after two groups of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) workers clashed in Lalpur upazila of the Natore district on Saturday night.”At least six people were injured during the clash,” Bangladesh’s leading newspaper The Daily Star quoted Md Mojibar …
New Delhi, Feb 12 (IANS) As people of Bangladesh voted in the country’s 13th parliamentary election, India on Thursday stressed that it would wait for the results before making any assessment of the political landscape. Addressing a weekly media briefing in New Delhi, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said, “The elections are going on in Bangladesh. We should wait for the outcome of the elections to see what sort of mandate has come out, and thereafter, we will lo…
Dhaka, Jan 8 (IANS) As Bangladesh heads towards the February election, the task of finalising a seat-sharing arrangement has become increasingly complicated within the radical Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami-led alliance, deepening uncertainty within the newly announced coalition, local media reported on Thursday.Both Jammat and Islami Andolan Bangladesh are reportedly fielding candidates in over 240 overlapping constituencies.Jamaat and Islami Andolan — two of the largest Islamist groups in the…
Dhaka, Dec 23 (IANS) Bangladesh’s police have arrested a woman in connection with the shooting of a National Citizen Party (NCP) leader, local media reported on Tuesday, citing an official.The victim, Mohammad Motaleb Sikder, the Khulna divisional chief of the NCP and a central organiser of NCP Sramik Shakti, was shot on Monday at a house near Gazi Medical College Hospital in the Sonadanga area of Khulna city.This incident came just days after radical Islamist leader Sharif Osman Hadi was shot o…
Dhaka, Dec 22 (IANS) Amid widespread unrest and violence in Bangladesh over the killing of student leader Osman Haidi, another student leader was shot in the head, local media reported. The victim was identified as Muhammad Motaleb Shikder, a student leader of the National Citizen Party (NCP), the same party to which Osman Haidi belonged. He was shot in the head in Khulna by unidentified gunmen this morning at around 11.45 AM. He is currently in the hospital undergoing treatment.“A bullet pier…
New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS) BJP National Spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain, on Monday, alleged that suspended Trinamool Congress MLA Humayun Kabir is acting as an agent of the ruling party and that the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee deliberately encouraged him to float a new political outfit to create polarisation among voters. His remarks came after Kabir, the suspended Trinamool Congress MLA from the Bharatpur Assembly constituency in Murshidabad district of West Bengal, announced the la…
Dhaka, Dec 22 (IANS) A student-led National Citizen Party (NCP) leader was shot by miscreants in Bangladesh’s Khulna on Monday, just days after the killing of radical Islamist leader Sharif Osman Hadi, as the violence continues to grip the South Asian nation. According to local media reports, the injured was identified as 42-year-old Mohammad Motaleb Sikder, who was serving as the Khulna divisional chief of the NCP and a central organiser of NCP Sramik Shakti.The incident occurred around 11:45 a…
Dhaka, Dec 22 (IANS) The Bangladesh Students’ League (BSL), the student wing of the ruling Awami League, has appealed to the international community to play a constructive role in ensuring that Bangladesh’s next general election, scheduled for February 12, 2026, is conducted in a free, fair, and inclusive manner under a neutral government, describing it as the only path to stability and democracy in the country.It also expressed outrage over what it called an ongoing campaign of “state-spo…