Dhaka, Feb 28 (IANS) Bangladesh’s Awami League has begun reasserting its political presence in the country following the recent parliamentary elections, with over a dozen party offices reopened in the past two weeks, local media reports have cited. In several locations, however, party supporters gathered outside the offices and raised slogans instead of formally unlocking the premises, reflecting a visible effort to regain momentum on the ground.Citing multiple party sources, Bangladesh’s le…
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Dhaka, Feb 26 (IANS) Bangladesh’s Supreme Court on Thursday acquitted Khan Akram Hossain, a war crime convict from Bagerhat district, overturning his life sentence in a crimes against humanity case linked to the country’s 1971 Liberation War, local media reported. A bench led by Chief Justice Zubayer Rahman Chowdhury passed the verdict after hearing Akram’s appeal challenging the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) judgment delivered on August 11, 2015.Akram was one of the three alleged memb…
Dhaka, Feb 26 (IANS) A Bangladesh court on Thursday ordered the authorities to seek an Interpol ‘Red Notice’ for the arrest of British MP Tulip Rizwana Siddiq, niece of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, over corruption allegations, local media reported. Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Sabbir Faiz passed the order on Thursday following an appeal by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), according to the court’s bench assistant, Riaz Hossain.The appeal filed by ACC Assistant Direct…
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, …
Washington, Feb 24 (IANS) The National Endowment for Democracy backed political and civic actors in Bangladesh in the run-up to the 2024 collapse of Sheikh Hasina’s government, supporting electoral reforms, voter education, and independent reporting, its president told US lawmakers on Tuesday. Testifying before the Subcommittee on National Security, Department of State, & Related Programs of the House Committee on Appropriations, NED President and CEO Damon Wilson said, “In Bangladesh, N…
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….