People to decide which party to do politics or join polls: Fakhrul
People to decide which party to do politics or join polls: Fakhrul

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday said the people of the country will determine who will participate in elections and do politics, reports UNB. As a political party we cant determine it. There has been a misunderstanding. An adviser said BNP facilitated the Awami...

Chief prosecutor compares Ziaul Ahsan to Karadzic, the butcher of Bosnia
Chief prosecutor compares Ziaul Ahsan to Karadzic, the butcher of Bosnia

Mohammad Tajul Islam, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), has compared former Director General of the National Telecommunication Monitoring Center (NTMC) Ziaul Ahsan to Radovan Karadzic, the notorious butcher of Bosnia-Herzegovina. After...

Apology to nation if 1971 mistakes are proven: Jamaat chief
Apology to nation if 1971 mistakes are proven: Jamaat chief

Ameer-e-Jamaat Dr. Shafiqur Rahman, the chief of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, has stated that he will apologize to the nation if any wrongdoing by his party during the 1971 Liberation War is proven beyond doubt. His remarks came as part of an ongoing effort to address historical issues related to...

Iraqi armed group claims attack on Israel
Iraqi armed group claims attack on Israel

Iraq based armed group The Islamic Resistance said that it launched an attack on a vital target in southern Israel using drones, reports Al Jazeera. The group of Iran-backed militias said the attack was in solidarity with the people of Gaza and Lebanon. It has been launching near-daily...

Former food minister Kamrul Islam arrested in Dhaka
Former food minister Kamrul Islam arrested in Dhaka

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DB) arrested Advocate Kamrul Islam, former Food Minister and Awami League presidium member, in the Uttara-12 sector of the capital on Monday night. The arrest was confirmed by DB Additional Commissioner of Police Rezaul Karim Mallik. Kamrul Islam, currently serving as...

Commonwealth countries will stand by Bangladesh: Asst Sec General
Commonwealth countries will stand by Bangladesh: Asst Sec General

Commonwealth Assistant Secretary General Professor Luis Gabriel Franceschi on Monday said Commonwealth countries will stand by Bangladesh. He said this while he called on Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology adviser Md Nahid Islam at the latters ministry office in the capital....

Pakistan's top cleric says use of VPNs is against Islamic laws
Pakistan's top cleric says use of VPNs is against Islamic laws

Pakistans top body of clerics has ruled that the use of virtual private networks (VPNs) violates Islamic law, officials announced on Monday. The decision comes as the Ministry of Interior has moved to ban VPN services, which are commonly used to bypass censorship in countries with strict internet...

BNP upset at CA’s address to nation
BNP upset at CA’s address to nation

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday voiced frustration over the Chief Advisers address to the nation as he did not unveil an outline for the election, reports UNB. Speaking at a discussion, he also warned BNP leaders and workers not to create a distance from the students...

People won’t tolerate repetition of fascism: Mufti Rezaul Karim
People won’t tolerate repetition of fascism: Mufti Rezaul Karim

Islami Andolon Bangladesh Ameer Mufti Syed Muhammad Rezaul Karim on Sunday said the rulers of the country couldnt able to give anything in last 53 years except oppression and deprivation and in the regime of ousted PM Sheikh Hasina, the country had become a tax jurisdiction of India. However,...

Fakhrul meets UK minister Catherine West
Fakhrul meets UK minister Catherine West

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday had a meeting with visiting UK Minister for the Indo-Pacific Catherine West and discussed various issues of mutual interest between the two nations. The hour-long meeting, which began around 4:30 pm, was held at the British High...

Fakhrul pays tribute to Maulana Bhasani on his death anniversary
Fakhrul pays tribute to Maulana Bhasani on his death anniversary

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday paid rich tributes to Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhasani, popularly known as Majlum Jananeta (the leader of the downtrodden) on his 48th death anniversary on Sunday, reports BSS. Maulana Bhasani will...

Govt to send mass uprising injured Kajal to Thailand for better treatment
Govt to send mass uprising injured Kajal to Thailand for better treatment

Posts, Telecommunications and ICT adviser Md Nahid Islam said Kajal, who were injured in mass uprising in July, will be sent to Thailand for better treatment. Adviser Nahid Islam, special assistant to health adviser Dr. Md. Sayedur Rahman, DG of Health Directorate Professor Abu Zafar and...

IGP stresses accountability, respect for innocents in crime investigations
IGP stresses accountability, respect for innocents in crime investigations

Inspector General of Police (IGP) Md Mainul Islam has called for holding offenders accountable while ensuring that innocent individuals are not harassed during investigations. He highlighted the importance of intelligence-based policing, crime prevention, and respect for citizens at police...

Israeli military claims to kill PIJ brigade commander
Israeli military claims to kill PIJ brigade commander

The Israeli military claims that in coordination with Shin Bet, Israels internal intelligence service, its air force struck Alkaman Abed Elslam Khalil Anbar, who it claims was in charge of a Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) brigade located in Gaza City, reports Al Jazeera. It said that Anbar was...

India need not worry about minorities — Nahid Islam tells BBC Hindi
India need not worry about minorities — Nahid Islam tells BBC Hindi

In an interview aired on Thursday by BBC Hindi, Nahid Islam, the Adviser for Information and Broadcasting in Bangladeshs interim government, addressed concerns raised by India regarding the safety of minorities in Bangladesh and recent communal tensions. Nahid Islam, a key figure in the government,...

BNP's 31-point reform proposal will align with Interim Government's reform plans: Fakhrul
BNP's 31-point reform proposal will align with Interim Government's reform plans: Fakhrul

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has stated, The 31-point reform proposal is not just BNPs own creation. It was developed based on the collective opinion of all those involved in the movement. Many aspects of this 31-point reform proposal will align with the reform initiatives...

Not everything needs reform, parliament will carry out those tasks: Fakhrul
Not everything needs reform, parliament will carry out those tasks: Fakhrul

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said, as a nation, we should not be intolerant, we should be tolerant. It is true that the garbage of 17 years cannot be removed in 17 days or 17 months. The interim government should give time for this. We have repeatedly said that there is not...

India engages in conspiracy against Bangladesh: Fakhrul
India engages in conspiracy against Bangladesh: Fakhrul

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has accused India of engaging in hatching conspiracy against Bangladesh as the mastermind of fascism is now staying in the neighbouring country, reports UNB. There is a danger over our heads. We cant endure any further disaster at this moment. We...

Atiqul Islam placed on fresh 5-day remand
Atiqul Islam placed on fresh 5-day remand

A Dhaka court has granted a five-day remand for Dhaka North City Corporations former mayor Atiqul Islam in a murder case filed with Uttara Purbo Police Station in the capital rejecting his bail plea. A judge of the Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Court passed the order on Wednesday (November 13)....

There's no govt pressure on media: Nahid Islam
There's no govt pressure on media: Nahid Islam

Adviser to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Md Nahid Islam said there is no pressure on the media from the government and the media should use this freedom to provide objective news with courage. He said this in a view exchange meeting with the editors of daily newspapers at the...

Former IGP Shahidul granted two-day remand
Former IGP Shahidul granted two-day remand

The court has granted a two-day remand for former IGP AKM Shahidul Haque and Joint Secretary AKMG Kibria Majumdar in connection with the second case filed over the petrol bomb attack on a bus in Chouddagram, Comilla. On Monday, November 12, former IGP AKM Shahidul Haque and Joint Secretary AKMG...

Esteemed female scholar who taught Hadith in the royal palace
Esteemed female scholar who taught Hadith in the royal palace

Amatul Lafit bint Nasih (RA) was a distinguished female jurist (Faqih), spiritual saint, and calligrapher of the Hanbali Madhhab. A descendant of the renowned Sahabi Saad bin Ubada Ansari (RA), she earned the titles Ansariyya and Khazrajyya. Due to her association with the Hanbali school of...

Former lawmaker Sirajul Islam arrested
Former lawmaker Sirajul Islam arrested

Former lawmaker from Narsingdi Sirajul Islam Molla was arrested from Dhakas Mohammadpur area on Monday evening. Police said students detained Sirajul and informed the army and they took him into their custody, reports BSS. Being informed, police took him to Mohammadpur Police Station. Two...

JnU students get assurance of fulfilling demands within 3 working days
JnU students get assurance of fulfilling demands within 3 working days

Posts, Telecommunications and ICT adviser Md Nahid Islam has assured the protesting students of Jagannath University (JnU) to fulfill their demands within 3 working days including demand of handing over the project work of second campus to the army. He gave this assurance to the protesting...

Saudi Arabia gears up to host Arab-Islamic summit on Gaza, Lebanon
Saudi Arabia gears up to host Arab-Islamic summit on Gaza, Lebanon

A Saudi Arabia-hosted Arab Islamic Summit is set to open in Riyadh in the coming hours, with leaders expected to hold discussions on Israels war on Gaza as well as its attacks on Lebanon, reports Al Jazeera. The Saudi state-run Al-Ekhbariya news channel broadcast footage of Nigerian President...

Govt developing cyberbullying prevention framework: Nahid Islam
Govt developing cyberbullying prevention framework: Nahid Islam

Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology Adviser Md Nahid Islam on Sunday said the interim government is developing a separate framework to combat the issue of cyberbullying, which is particularly affecting girls in the country. Nahid Islam, also the information and broadcasting...

Islamic Resistance in Iraq claims drone attacks on Israel
Islamic Resistance in Iraq claims drone attacks on Israel

The Iran-backed umbrella group, Islamic Resistance in Iraq said it carried out drone attacks on vital targets in the north and south of territories occupied by Israel, reports Al Jazeera. The group, which regularly launches drones bound for Israel, gave no further details of its intended target,...

CA appoints 3 special assistants to aid home, health, education advisers
CA appoints 3 special assistants to aid home, health, education advisers

Chief Adviser to the Interim Government Prof. Dr Muhammad Yunus has appointed three special assistants with the status of state minister, according to a gazette notification issued in Dhaka on Sunday evening. Under rule 3B (iia) of the Rules of Business, 1996, they have been given executive...