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Amid growing political tensions and various speculations, a BNP delegation will hold a meeting with Chief Adviser Dr Muhammad Yunus on Saturday. The meeting is likely to take place at the Chief Adviser’s official residence Jamuna around 7pm, a BNP standing committee member told UNB on Friday night. “We have been invited by the Chief Adviser’s office to hold a meeting over the latest political situation,” he said. The BNP leader said they have also learnt that the Chief Adviser will hold a meeting with Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami following their party’s meeting. He said they will attend…
The highly anticipated trailer of the Mosharraf Karim-starrer web series “Bohemian Ghora” has been released. It’s already creating waves. The trailer offers a glimpse into a wildly unpredictable, humorous, and emotional rollercoaster that awaits viewers starting on 5 June. Directed by acclaimed maker Amitabh Reza Chowdhury and, the series revolves around a charismatic yet complicated truck driver named Abbas (Mosharraf Karim), who has secretly married seven women across different districts—each unaware of the others’ existence. The only person who knows the full story is Abbas’s loyal truck helper, Selim. But everything changes after Abbas marries his eighth wife.…
Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday revoked Harvard’s ability to enroll foreign nationals — more than a quarter of the student body — in a dramatic escalation of the US president’s fight against the prestigious university. The school in Cambridge, Massachusetts quickly slammed the move as “unlawful” and said it would hurt both the campus and the country, while one student said the community was “panicking.” Trump is furious at Harvard — which has produced 162 Nobel prize winners — for rejecting his demand that it submit to oversight on admissions and hiring over his claims that it is…
BNP Standing Committee Member Salahuddin Ahmed on Friday commented the state will find an alternate mechanism if Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus feels he is incapable of fulfilling his duties of announcing an election roadmap. “No one is indispensable in this world,” the BNP senior leader said at a television programme. It will be Prof Yunus’s personal stance, if he wants to quit from his post instead of announcing the roadmap for next general elections, Salahuddin said, adding BNP has not made any demand in this regard. However, BNP hopes that Prof Yunus, being a world-renowned figure,…
Stating that the delay in holding the next parliamentary elections is fuelling instability in the country, BNP leader Zainul Abedin Farroque on Friday said his party would be aggrieved if interim government chief Professor Muhammad Yunus were to depart in disgrace. “There appears to be a wave of unrest sweeping the country. Who are the main culprits behind this instability? Who is attempting to delay the election? We wish to know these things from a great person like you (Dr Yunus),” he told a protest rally. Farroque, a member of the BNP chairperson’s advisory council, said…
Amid the speculation over the resignation of the chief adviser, Environment Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan has said that the next national election will be held either by December this year or by June next year as committed by Prof Muhammad Yunus. “Shifting a day from this timeline… from our side, there is no chance,” she asserted. Rizwana made the remarks clarifying the government’s stance regarding the election while talking to reporters after attending the “24th National Conference and AGM 2024 of the Zoological Society of Bangladesh” at Dhaka University on Friday. She said, “We are not in…
The latest voter list update in Chattogram has added more than 300,000 new voters, bringing the district’s total registered voter count to approximately 6.85 million. According to the updated data released by the Election Commission, 304,283 new voters have been enrolled in the district. Among the upazilas, Banshkhali saw the highest increase with 22,822 new voters. Other notable increases include 24,327 in Anwara, 21,376 in Rangunia, 17,740 in Fatikchhari, and 18,083 in Satkania. Additional figures show voter increases in Mirsarai (15,051), Patiya (17,016), Hathazari (16,748), Sitakunda (16,062), Lohagara (21,214), Rauzan (13,989), Sandwip (13,796), Chandanaish (12,805), Boalkhali (12,017), and…
BNP’s continued support for the government will be difficult if the government does not announce the roadmap for the national election by December this year, said Standing Committee Member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain on Thursday. The top priority is now to establish a political government, imbued with the spirit of the July mass upsurge, in a bid to restore the people’s democratic, constitutional, voting and human rights, he said. “We demand a clear roadmap for the national election to be held in a free, fair and impartial manner by December this year. It should be the main agenda of…
The government has issued gazette of the Cyber Security Ordinance, 2025, to identify, prevent, suppress, and subsequently to try the crimes committed in cyberspace for ensuring cyber security. Confirming the matter to BSS, Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Ministry spokesperson Dr Md Rezaul Karim said the gazette was issued on May 21, and the ordinance will come into effect immediately. Earlier on May 6, Law Adviser Dr Asif Nazrul said the ordinance will be announced within the week after vetting by the ministry of law affairs. The 32-page gazette said the president is formulating and issuing…
Pakistan will not get water from rivers over which India has rights, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday, a month after a deadly attack in Indian Kashmir led New Delhi to suspend a key river water-sharing treaty between the neighbours. The suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty, negotiated by the World Bank in 1960, was among a slew of measures announced by India against Pakistan last month after the April 22 attack that killed 26 men, mostly Hindu tourists. New Delhi had said the attack was backed by Pakistan – an accusation Islamabad denied – and…