Dhaka, Jan 20 (IANS) Bangladesh’s political landscape remains predominantly male-dominated, reflecting a patriarchal society that discourages female participation in the political structure of the country, resulting in low representation of women across political parties at all levels, a report said on Tuesday. Writing for leading Bangladeshi daily Prothom Alo, Selim Jahan, former Director of the Human Development Report Office (HDRO) at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), cited m…
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Dhaka, Jan 20 (IANS) Bangladesh witnessed a sharp rise in crime incidents in 2025, with police data showing a significant increase in cases of theft, robbery, mugging, banditry and kidnapping across the country, local media reported on Tuesday.Citing data from the Bangladesh Police website, the country’s leading Bengali daily Prothom Alo reported that 1,935 robbery cases were recorded nationwide in 2025, marking a 37 per cent rise from 2024.The data recorded 702 cases of robbery last year, a 4…
New Delhi, Jan 14 (IANS) A Rs. 50-crore project undertaken by the now-deposed Sheikh Hasina government to preserve the history of Bangladesh’s Liberation War of 1971, which included video interviews of about 15,000 participants, will be shelved now, said reports.Dhaka’s current administration has no plans to preserve the interviews, and the agency working on the project will not be paid, according to a report in Bangladesh’s prominent newspaper Prothom Alo on Wednesday.Officials told the n…
Dhaka, Jan 14 (IANS) With Bangladesh gearing up for the February 12 general elections, cracks have begun to surface within the Jamaat-e-Islami-led alliance, as disagreements over seat-sharing continue to intensify despite a deadline to finalise the arrangement, local media reported on Wednesday.Citing sources, Bangladesh’s leading Bengali daily, Prothom Alo, reported that eight out of the 11 alliance partners have reached a seat-sharing agreement with Jamaat, while the Islami Andolan Banglades…
Dhaka, Jan 12 (IANS) Chief observer of the European Union Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) in Bangladesh, Ivars Ijabs has stated that the EU wants the upcoming election in Bangladesh to be “inclusive and participatory” through a peaceful, credible and transparent process, local media reported. While addressing a press conference in Dhaka, Ijabs elaborated on the EU’s expectations about the upcoming polls, stressing that elections should be participatory and transparent. He also stated that …
Dhaka, Jan 10 (IANS) The growth of Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, largely represents the spread of a fragile economic geography, with the city failing to emerge as a modern city. Although Dhaka has expanded swiftly in both size and population over the past few decades, the city has not become liveable, remaining largely unplanned and disorderly, a report said on Saturday. “Transportation is a source of constant suffering. There is little evidence of planning in housing. Basic services such as …
Dhaka, Jan 8 (IANS) Odommo Jobian Oikko, a panel backed by radical Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami’s student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir, has registered a landslide victory, securing 16 of the 21 posts – including those of Vice-President (VP), General Secretary and Assistant General Secretary (AGS) – in the just-concluded Bangladesh’s Jagannath University Central Students Union (JnUCSU) elections, the local media reported on Thursday. The student wings of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chh…
Dhaka, Jan 8 (IANS) In yet another case highlighting the out of control law and order situation in Bangladesh, a Jatiyatabadi Swechasebak Dal leader was shot dead by gunmen in Dhaka Wednesday night, the police officials confirmed on Thursday. Azizur Rahman Mosabbir, a Joint Convener of the Swechasebak Dal’s Dhaka North unit, was reportedly having tea with a party colleague at a stall behind the Bashundhara City Shopping Mall in the Karwan Bazar area when several assailants arrived on motorcycles…
Dhaka, Jan 3 (IANS) As violence against minorities escalates in Bangladesh, another Hindu man has died on Saturday after being brutally attacked by a mob of miscreants in Damudya upazila of Shariatpur district, local media reported. The victim, Khokon Chandra Das, a businessman from Damudya, was hacked and critically injured before the assailants poured petrol on him and set him on fire earlier this week.The incident occurred near Keurbhanga Bazar in Kaneshwar Union of Damudya late Wednesday.He …
New Delhi, Jan 2 (IANS) Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman, who recently returned to Dhaka after a 17-year exile in the United Kingdom, earned Bangladesh Taka (Tk) 676,000 (Indian Rupees 4,98,414) in the 2025–26 tax year, where his income primarily came from shares and bank fixed deposits, say reports.He leads an alliance against a coalition comprising the BNP’s ally-turned-principal opponent Jamaat-e-Islami in the February 12 general elections. The Ameer of Ja…