Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has said the practice of people being detained merely for speaking must end, stressing that citizens should be able to voice their concerns without fear of harassment. “Someone speaks and the police arrive to take them away -- no, people do not want this,” he told...
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman arrived in Sylhet on Saturday (2 May) at 9:58am, when the aircraft carrying him landed at Osmani International Airport. Defying rain earlier in the morning, he reached the airport on a Biman flight at 10:00am, accompanied by his wife, Dr Zubaida Rahman. From the...
Opposition Chief Whip Nahid Islam on Thursday warned that any retreat by BNP from the consensus on constitutional reform could force a renewed demand for drafting a new constitution or rewriting the existing one. He said that if BNP remained rigid in its support for the 1972 Constitution and...
Cabinet members on Wednesday criticised the opposition and cautioned all parties against exploiting the July mass uprising for personal or partisan gain, urging restraint and unity during a debate on the motion of thanks to the president’s address. Ministers stressed that the July uprising was...
BNP candidates secured landslide victories in the Bogura-6 by-election and Sherpur-3 election held on Thursday, with both constituencies returning contenders running under the party’s “Sheaf of Paddy” symbol. In Bogura-6, the by-election was necessitated after Prime Minister Tarique Rahman...
Seven bills, including the Voter List (Amendment) Bill, were passed in the Jatiya Sangsad on Monday (06 April) through a voice vote. During the sitting, Law Minister Md Asaduzzaman placed ten ordinance-based bills before the House, while Land Minister Mizanur Rahman Minu introduced the Agriculture...
