Dhaka, Jan 7 (IANS) Bangladesh’s newly-formed political party, National Citizen Party (NCP), is set to contest its first national election amid internal instability, following a wave of resignations over its decision to form an alliance with Jamaat-e-Islami.This internal instability has left key structures weakened and exposed a leadership vacuum within the party, local media reported on Wednesday.The NCP, which emerged from the student-led protests of 2024 against the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami Le…
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Dhaka, Jan 6 (IANS) As political tensions continue to mount ahead of the February elections, the radical Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami and the National Citizens Party (NCP) have accused sections of the civil administration under the Yunus regime of working in favour of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), local media reported.Jamaat, during a meeting of the party’s central executive council, stated that conditions for a free, fair, and neutral election remain absent in the country, Banglades…
Dhaka, Jan 6 (IANS) As Bangladesh heads towards its 13th Parliamentary elections in February, National Citizen Party (NCP) candidate Sarjis Alam has come under scrutiny after submitting inconsistent income figures to the country’s Election Commission, local media reported.In his election affidavit, the 27-year-old NCP leader disclosed an annual business income of Bangladeshi taka (Tk) 9 lakh, whereas his tax return for 2025–26 indicates Tk 28.05 lakh – over three times higher—with both f…
Dhaka, Jan 5 (IANS) Life was severely disrupted in Bangladesh’s capital on Monday as escalating protest marches brought traffic in several key areas to a standstill, blocking major intersections and causing widespread congestion and hardship for commuters, according to local media reports.The disruption affected office-goers, students, and patients as restricted public transport forced many to walk long distances to reach their destinations.On Sunday morning, mobile phone shop owners from acro…
New Delhi, Jan 4 (IANS) Several challenges faced by the Bangladesh economy from 2025, such as the rising non-performing loans in the financial sector, are likely to spill into the new year, according to local media reports.The Bangladesh Bank had limited room to act, as the government relied heavily on high-cost borrowing from the banking sector. At the same time, debt defaults continued to weaken banks’ ability to extend fresh credit, the Dhaka-based The Daily Star reported.High interest rates …
Dhaka, Jan 2 (IANS) The human rights situation in Bangladesh’s Chattogram Hill Tracts worsened in 2025 as the government did not implement the 1997 CHT Peace Accord, Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti (PCJSS) revealed in its Annual Human Rights Report 2025, local media reported on Friday. According to the report, no meaningful progress in implementing the accord was made under the interim administration led by Muhammad Yunus. Nearly two-thirds of the accord, including its core provisions, h…
Dhaka, Dec 29 (IANS) As the National Citizen Party (NCP) announced its decision to join a Jamaat-e-Islami-led alliance ahead of the Bangladesh general elections, triggering sharp internal dissent, party convenor Nahid Islam moved to clarify that the partnership was purely electoral and not based on any ideological convergence.Islam said the NCP had initially been preparing to contest the upcoming polls independently and had drawn up plans to field candidates in all 300 parliamentary constituenci…
New Delhi, Dec 26 (IANS) Developments in Bangladesh since Wednesday, making the headlines, suggest that the interim administration led by Muhammad Yunus now has a plan to counter the negative image developing from widespread arson and killings. On Wednesday, Khuda Baksh Chowdhury, Bangladesh’s special assistant (Ministry of Home Affairs) to Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus, submitted his resignation, which was accepted and announced through a gazette notification within hours.In a separate developme…
Dhaka, Dec 26 (IANS) Former Bangladesh Minister and Awami League leader Mohammad Ali Arafat accused the Muhammad Yunus-led interim government of turning the country into a hub of radical Islamist forces.Arafat shared a recorded video on his social media platform X, where the terrorist group ISIS flag was seen being waved near the Parliament building in Dhaka during the funeral of extremist leader Sharif Osman Hadi. In the video, a participant was heard saying that in the coming days, the ISIS fl…
Dhaka, Dec 24 (IANS) Former Bangladesh Minister and Awami League leader Mohammad Ali Arafat on Wednesday alleged that radical Islamist groups were primarily responsible for the attacks on the country’s leading media offices and cultural institutions following the death of extremist leader Sharif Osman Hadi. “Not only the offices of The Daily Star and Prothom Alo, but also the premises of leading Bangladeshi cultural institutions such as ‘Chhayanaut’ and ‘Udichi Shilpigoshthi’ were attacked in Dh…