Enforced disappearance symbol of 'one-party misrule', says Fakhrul
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir alleged on Saturday the current government has made enforced disappearances as main political programme to continue its 'despotic' rule by eliminating opponents, reports UNB."The panic of disappearances has been prevailing everywhere in Bangladesh. Crimes against humanity and atrocities such as enforced disappearances and...
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Prisoner flees from Mitford
The jail authorities on Saturday suspended three guards after a prisoner fled from Sir Salimullah Medical College (Mitford Hospital) on Friday, reports UNB. The suspended officials are Assistant Chief Jail Guard Mobarak Hossain and jail guards Kamrul Islam, Abdul Alim. Mahbubul Islam, jailer of Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj, said...
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Govt will bring back at least one Bangabandhu's killer in Mujib Year
Senior officials of the Foreign Ministry, led by Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen, have paid profound tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by placing wreath at his mazar in Tungipara, reports BSS. The minister along with foreign ministry's secretary Masud Bin Momen, additional secretaries and...
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Election fever grips 13 Rajshahi municipalities
Our CorrespondentRAJSHAHI, Aug 29: Election fever grips 13 municipalities in Rajshahi district as an Election Commission (EC) meeting held on August 23 directed the EC secretariat to take measure for holding the elections at those municipalities in December this year. The elections are likely to be held at the municipalities...
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EC eyes changes to registration criteria for political parties
Political parties in Bangladesh are likely to be given more time to increase women's participation at all organisational levels in order to maintain their registration status, with the current deadline expiring in 2020, reports bdnews24.com.As per the existing electoral law, political parties had to reach the target of 33 per...
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