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'Crisis of democracy' emerging in Bangladesh, stay vigilant, BNP's Fakhrul says

Dhaka, July 19 -- Awami League has become completely irrelevant in Bangladesh's politics following its ouster by a mass uprising last year, Jamaat-e-Islami deputy chief Syed Abdullah Mohammad Taher ha... Read More


Farhad Mazhar advises Jamaat to 'change name', revive its post-'75 IDL identity

Dhaka, July 19 -- Farhad Mazhar has urged Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami to "change" its name out of respect for the spirit of the Liberation War and revive its post-1975 identity as the Islamic Democrati... Read More


BNP leader Fakhrul visits Jamaat chief in hospital

Dhaka, July 19 -- BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has paid a visit to Jamaat-e-Islami chief Shafiqur Rahman in the hospital, who fell ill during a rally. He went to Dhanmondi's Ibn ... Read More


A 'radical and aggressive' reader section threatens media freedom, says Debapriya

Dhaka, July 19 -- Debapriya Bhattacharya, a distinguished fellow at the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), has said a section of newspaper readers has become "radical and aggressive", posing a new chal... Read More


Assistant train driver's hanging body found in Brahmanbaria home

Bangladesh, July 18 -- A railway worker has been found dead in Brahmanbaria's Akhaura. Police recovered the hanging and partially decomposed body from a rented house in the municipality's Masjidpara ... Read More


AL human chain, rally in New York protests Gopalganj attack

Bangladesh, July 18 -- Awami League supporters in New York have organised a human chain and rally to protest the violent incidents surrounding the National Citizen Party (NCP) march and rally in Gopal... Read More


Gopalganj violence: Autorickshaw driver succumbs to gunshot wounds, raising death toll to 5

Bangladesh, July 18 -- An autorickshaw driver who was wounded by gunfire in Gopalganj has died, bringing the death toll from the violence surrounding the National Citizen Party (NCP) rally to five. R... Read More


Government keeps one party in its 'lap', another on its 'shoulder', says Mirza Abbas

Bangladesh, July 18 -- BNP's senior leader Mirza Abbas has accused the interim government of showing clear "favouritism" by supporting one political party while sidelining others He warned that if el... Read More


Starlink's high-speed satellite internet goes live in Bangladesh

Bangladesh, July 18 -- US tech baron Elon Musk's Starlink has officially fired up its satellite internet services in Bangladesh, marking a milestone moment in the country's digital landscape. The lau... Read More


Bangladesh reports one dengue death, 114 new hospitalisations in a day

Bangladesh, July 18 -- One person has died of dengue while 114 new patients have been hospitalised with the Aedes mosquito-borne disease across over the past 24 hours. With this, the death tally from... Read More