1,228 reports translated from the Bengali original, most recent first. বাংলা সংস্করণ
The International Republican Institute has issued eight recommendations on Bangladesh's 2026 national election, including finalizing the July charter, after a four-day mission warned of fragile pre-election conditions and the risk of more violence.
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and seven allied parties have demanded the government accept a five-point charter before their Nov. 11 rally in Dhaka, with Secretary General Mia Golam Parwar warning the city's mood would change otherwise.
A decision by BNP's student wing to put male members in charge of the women's residence hall at Jamalpur Science and Technology University has triggered sharp criticism on campus.
Five leaders of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its affiliated groups were wounded in a shooting in Raozan upazila of Chattogram, with one in critical condition, police said.
Nine political parties are seeking to form a third alliance outside the electoral blocs led by BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami, the spokesman for Ganadhikar Parishad said.
Jamaat-e-Islami is preparing for next February's national election with new outreach to young people, women and Hindus, including events such as breast cancer awareness camps and motor rallies.
Jamaat-e-Islami expressed deep concern and condemnation over a shooting attack on BNP candidate Ershad Ullah during a campaign event in Chattogram that killed one person and wounded several.
Rival supporters of nominated former lawmaker Amjad Hossain and district BNP president Javed Masud Milton attacked each other's offices in Gangni, injuring at least 10 people and damaging a dozen motorcycles.
The BNP has announced preliminary candidates for 237 seats ahead of the next parliamentary election, with 63 seats believed to have been held back for coalition partners and allies.
BNP candidate Ershad Ullah was shot and seriously wounded while campaigning in Chattogram's Bayezid area on Wednesday afternoon, party sources said.
The BNP on Monday announced its candidates for five of the six parliamentary seats in Jashore, leaving one for an ally and tapping former student wing chief Kazi Rownakul Islam Srabon as a new…
A day after announcing its candidates for the next parliamentary election, the BNP on Tuesday suspended the nomination of Kamal Jaman Mollah in Madaripur-1, the party said.
BNP Chuadanga-1 nominee Sharifuzzaman Sharif urged supporters to forgo celebration and instead unite to secure victory for the party's 'sheaf of paddy' symbol.
Masud Parvez, a Jamaat-e-Islami candidate for the Chuadanga-1 seat, said his party would build a self-reliant, corruption-free welfare state if voted to power.
National Citizen Party (NCP) southern chief organizer Hasnat Abdullah said the Election Commission has not explained why it is withholding the water lily symbol, raising doubts about the body.
Attackers fired bullets and threw bombs at a BNP office near Khulna University of Engineering and Technology, killing a 55-year-old teacher and wounding three others.
TALA, Satkhira — Jamaat-e-Islami does not seize fish enclosures or land or extract sand anywhere in the country, party Central Secretary Professor Golam Parwar said Monday at a youth and student rally in Tala…
Sharif Uddin Juwel, a BNP nominee hopeful from Kushtia-1 (Daulatpur) and Dhaka North City Jubo Dal convener, said the people's votes will determine the country's leadership.
The seasonal tapping of date palms to collect sap for Jashore's GI-tagged date-palm jaggery has been formally inaugurated in Chougacha upazila, where trees are prepared for the winter sap harvest.
Eighty Hindu families in Jhenaidah's Shailkupa joined Jamaat-e-Islami at a ceremony Friday evening at a temple in Bhandaripara village.
Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general Mia Golam Parwar said a November referendum should be held alongside the implementation of the July charter, with national elections to follow in February.
Five people were injured when two BNP factions clashed at Kajdia Bazar in Khulna's Rupsa upazila on Thursday over rival nomination bids.
Md. Ruhul Amin, Jamaat-e-Islami's candidate for Chuadanga-2, met with print and electronic journalists at the Darshana Press Club on Saturday.
The Jatiyatabadi Mahila Dal stepped up campaigning in Chuadanga's Darshana municipality, going door to door for BNP nominee Mahmud Hasan Khan Babu.
Election Commissioner Md. Anwarul Islam Sarkar said the schedule for the next national parliamentary election will be announced in the first week of December, with voting in February.
MEHERPUR — Meherpur district BNP general secretary Kamrul Hasan led a leaflet distribution and public outreach in Komarpur Bazar to publicize the party's 31-point demand.
CUMILLA — A Bangladesh Nationalist Party union president from Chougachha in Jashore was killed in a motorcycle crash on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway, party officials said.
DINAJPUR — Jamaat-e-Islami has elected Maulana Abul Kasem as the new amir of its Nawabganj upazila unit in Dinajpur, party officials said.
JASHORE — Chougachha upazila BNP in Jashore district said it has taken a tough stance against misleading and offensive comments about party candidates on social media.
JASHORE — Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami held a protest march and rally in Chougachha to demand justice for the 2006 Oct. 28 killings.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party leaders met in Chougachha, Jashore, on Saturday, with Jashore district BNP president Sayed Saberul Haque Sabu as chief guest.
Police filed a case against six Bangladesh Nationalist Party leaders and activists accused of illegally extracting sand from a sea beach on Nijhum Dwip in Hatiya, Noakhali.
Jamaat-e-Islami held a day-long election campaign Saturday in Kaukhali upazila of Rangamati, led by the party's parliamentary candidate for the Rangamati-299 seat, lawyer Mokhtar Ahmed.
BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman backs teachers' ongoing protests but warned against efforts to exploit the movement to create unrest, a party statement said Saturday.
LAKSHMIPUR — Some 50 leaders and supporters of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party in Lakshmipur joined Jamaat-e-Islami at a ceremony in Sadar upazila on Friday night, led by BNP leader Hossain Ahmed.
DHAKA — The National Citizen Party did not sign the historic July Charter on Friday because the document leaves its implementation road map unspecified, party member-secretary Akhtar Hossain said.
DHAKA — Signing the July Charter has opened a new chapter in Bangladesh's political history, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said Friday after the signing ceremony at the National Parliament.
DHAKA — Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami stressed the need for a legal basis and a clear implementation process for the July Charter immediately after its signing Friday, with acting amir Syed Abdullah Mohammad Taher urging the…
DHAKA — Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus, members of the National Consensus Commission and leaders of political parties signed the long-awaited July National Charter on Friday afternoon.
Bangladesh's interim government chief Muhammad Yunus and leaders of 33 political parties signed the July Charter on Friday, capping a national agreement that bars any person from holding the prime minister's office for more…
Jamaat-e-Islami chief Dr. Shafiqur Rahman said it was shameful that supporters of the July uprising were beaten by police on the same day the July Charter was signed, addressing a labor rally in Dhaka's…
National Consensus Commission Vice Chair Ali Riaz said clause 5 of the July National Charter 2025 pledge had been amended after consultations with July fighters and political parties, reflecting demands from those wounded in…
Despite repeated meetings, parties remain divided on some core reform issues, with some religiously based political parties calling for simultaneous street programs as the consensus commission's term is extended again.
With Bangladesh's election approaching, young voters — many of whom will cast ballots in a transformed political environment for the first time — are weighing what a year of post-August politics has meant for…
Residents of Chuadanga staged a human-chain protest demanding the cancellation of Goutam Kumar Biswas’s appointment as the district’s police superintendent, calling him an ally of the former Awami League government.
Chhatra Dal’s vice-president candidate and his supporters entered Jahangirnagar University’s Hall No. 15 polling center and caused disorder over false rigging allegations, witnesses said.
Amanullah Aman, central organizing secretary of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, alleged at a news conference that members of Jamaat-e-Islami's student wing Chhatra Shibir have taken positions in left-wing student groups at Rajshahi University.
Dr. Mosleh Uddin Farid, Jamaat-e-Islami's nominated candidate for Jashore-2, said the party has worked since its founding for a society free of hunger, poverty and inequality, addressing a workers' rally in Chougachha upazila.
DHAKA — The Election Commission will formally announce the work plan for the 13th national parliamentary election on Thursday, Senior Secretary Akhtar Ahmed said Wednesday.
CHOUGACHHA, Jashore — Dr. Mosleh Uddin Farid, the Jamaat-e-Islami candidate for Jashore-2, presented a check for 200,000 taka Tuesday for the renovation and development of the Chougachha Upazila Press Club.
CHOUGACHHA, Jashore — Sports are essential to keeping body and mind healthy, Dr. Mosleh Uddin Farid, the Jamaat-e-Islami candidate for Jashore-2, said Saturday at a football tournament prize-giving in Chougachha.
NARAIL — BNP leaders and activists held a protest rally and news conference in Kalia after an Awami League-affiliated woman filed an extortion case against senior local BNP figures, which the party calls a…
DHAKA — The Election Commission will rely on postal ballots for Bangladeshi voters abroad, with the postal service contacting 192 countries to handle the process under Universal Postal Union rules.
The chief adviser's office has formally written to the Election Commission asking it to complete all preparations to hold the national election before Ramadan begins in February 2026.
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party held a rally and victory procession in Chaugachha upazila of Jashore on Tuesday to mark the first anniversary of the July uprising.
Interim government information adviser Mahfuj Alam said the footsteps of a one-eleven scenario can be heard, referring to the 2007 military-backed caretaker government.
A Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami delegation met with Education Adviser Chowdhury Rafiqul Abrar and demanded the nationalization of all private educational institutions and the inclusion of non-MPO teachers in the government pay scheme.
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami held a public rally in Chaugachha upazila of Jashore on Monday to mark the first anniversary of the July revolution.
DHAKA — Conspiracies are underway to undo the spirit of the July uprising, and those benefiting from it must be identified and removed from power, Jamaat-e-Islami Nayeb-e-Ameer Dr. Syed Abdullah Mohammad Taher said Sunday.
DHAKA — On the first anniversary of the one-point demand that toppled Sheikh Hasina's government, National Citizen Party convener Nahid Islam announced a 24-point manifesto for what he called a Second Republic.