Shahariar Islam Sovon
Six MPs are contesting in six constituencies of Barishal district. However, the parliamentarians of three constituencies do not have to gain much momentum to pass the election results. In order to win the remaining three constituencies, MPs will have to contest with boats and independent candidates. In that case, it is not possible to predict who will be elected from those 3 seats.
Meanwhile, Jatiya Party candidate Engineer Iqbal Hossain Tapas, who has been nominated in two seats, has made it clear that he will not participate in the election.
There are no competing candidates in Barisal-1 (Gournadi-Agailjhara) seat. President of the district Awami League Abul Hasnat Abdullah who is the three-time member of parliament contesting with Jati...
Shahariar Islam Sovon
Thousands of protesters from various political parties took to the streets in several districts, major cities, and capital to demand Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's resignation including a free, fair, and credible national election, ensure freedom of speech, ensure proper power supply, reduction of fuel and essential commodity prices and an end to the crackdown on journalists.
The rallies staged by different political wings including the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) protest against the rising living cost, surging essential commodity prices, fuel prices, economic crisis, power shortage, attack on journalists issue and depreciating national currency.
The BNP Secretary General claims that Hasina's government has been accused with financi...
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A case was filed on Monday against seven people including managing director of Labaid Specialised Hospital over the death of a HSC student due to alleged wrong treatment.
The seven accused are Labaid Specialised Hospital managing director Dr AM Shamim, branch manager (Dhanmandi) Md Shahjahan, Dr Md Saifullah, Dr Maksud, Dr Sabbir Ahmed, Dr Mosharraf and Dr Kanak.
Victim Tahsin Hossain’s father filed the case with the court of Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Farah Diba Chanda. The court, after recording the statement of the plaintiff, asked the Dhanmandi police station to accept the matter as first information report.
Victim Tahsin Hossain’s father received legal information from Advocate Tanvir Ahmed (Sojeeb) and Advocate Faisal Bin Asad.
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Bangladesh is discussing free trade agreements with 11 countries, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said in an exclusive interview, as the South Asian country seeks new means to promote exports once preferential tariff exemptions expire in three years.
The prime minister spoke with Nikkei Asia at her official residence in Dhaka ahead of a visit to Japan -- her first in four years -- that starts next Tuesday. During the trip, Hasina and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida are expected to agree to upgrade bilateral ties to a "strategic comprehensive partnership." This comes as Japan ramps up infrastructure investment in the strategically situated country on the shores of the Indian Ocean, countering China's Belt and Road Initiative.
These two sectors bred some new elite classes who didn’t carry any meaningful social base earlier. A section of uncivilised social parasites, locally known as Jamir Dalal (Land Broker) and Adam Bepari (Manpower Dealer), emerged as the determining factors in the economy. With huge kickbacks, they began to occupy the political spaces also. Thus an immoral process of the economy began to rise, which Dr Akbar Ali Khan defined as ‘Shuyorer Bacchader Orthonity (Economy of Bastards)’. I would rather dare to dub it a ‘criminal economy’.
-- writes A. R. Farrukh Ahamed
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According to Article 48 (1) of the Constitution, His Excellency the President is elected by the members of the National Assembly. Under the same provision, members of the parliament shall elect eleven persons in the capacity of a full minister as the members of a government responsible for holding the national elections.
----- A. R. Farrukh Ahamed
What would have happened if the result of the 1970 election were conceded by the then West Pakistan government? In fact, the logical ...
