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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today laid emphasis on strengthening global solidarity and adopting coordinated response to address crisis as she placed four recommendations in this regard joining the G20 Summit here. “Here G20 and international financial institutions have crucial role to play, and Bangladesh is ready to support their efforts for tailoring actionable recommendations to […]
She gave the nation a new vision – Vision 2021, transforming Bangladesh into a middle-income country. She gave Bangladeshis the dream of Digital Bangladesh- an IT-based country. Four decades into independence, she has brought solace to 3 million martyrs and their families by initiating the much-awaited war crimes trial. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina led the […]
Nineteen years ago on 21st August, the nation was about to burst against the state-sponsored militancy, in the capital. Ironically, shortly after, the anti-militancy protesters themselves became victims of the country’s most gruesome militant attack masterminded by then BNP-Jamaat government. The anti-militancy campaigners in their hundreds and thousands thronged Bangabandhu Avenue to protest the killings […]
One of the biggest militant attacks in Bangladesh’s history was the grenade attack on Awami League President Sheikh Hasina’s rally at Bangabandhu Avenue on August 21, 2004. The then opposition leader and now prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, had become the target of a terrorist attack on an anti-terrorism rally. Twenty-four people were killed in that […]
On 21 August 2004, several military grade grenades were hurled at an Awami League rally in Bangabandhu Avenue, Dhaka. Twenty-four leaders and activists of the Awami League and its associate bodies were killed and over 300 others suffered splinter injuries in the August 21 attack. Among the dead were Ivy Rahman, then Mohila Awami League […]
It was a long, dark plot. A chilling conspiracy was getting final touches in an eerie August of 2004, a month that brings to mind the memories of a past bloodbath. The plot for a high-profile assassination was awaiting approval, again. On August 14: At Hawa Bhaban — the alternative powerhouse of the BNP-led coalition […]
Awami League (AL) General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader today said the ruling AL wants peaceful elections in the country, but BNP wants to disrupt the polls. “BNP is known as a terrorist party… It is to see – to whom sanctions and visa policy would be applied,” he told a […]
Brandishing firearm a local BNP leader fired bullets on activists of Jubo League and Bangladesh Chhatra League in Natore today while they were holding a peace rally, rising the specter of violent politics BNP Jamaat combine demonstrated back in 2013. A video of the attack shows, the acting convener of BNP’s local unit, Sahidul Islam […]
Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader on Wednesday said that if BNP gets power again, there will be no spirit of Liberation War in the country. “We cannot hand over power to BNP, which is the patron of communal forces and militancy,” he said. He made the remarks while joining a discussion meeting organised in […]
