Following a decisive victory in Bangladesh’s 13th national parliamentary elections, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its Chairman, Tarique Rahman, have received warm congratulations from leaders in neighbouring India. Notably, Mamata Banerjee, Chief Minister of West Bengal, extended her felicitations via the social media platform X, addressing Tarique Rahman as “brother” and conveying her […]

M A Kaiyum, a candidate in the Thirteenth National Parliamentary Election, has publicly questioned the credibility of the outcome in the Dhaka-11 constituency, asking how a contender unable to appoint polling agents at every voting centre could secure a substantial number of votes. Kaiyum, who contested the seat under the sheaf of paddy symbol representing […]

The defeated candidate of the Dhaka-14 from the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), Sanzida Islam Tuli, has formally alleged widespread irregularities in the recent parliamentary poll and called for the suspension of the declared result, along with a fresh election. On Friday afternoon (12 February), Ms Tuli visited the Election Commission headquarters in Agargaon, Dhaka, where […]

In the recent national referendum held alongside the 13th general parliamentary elections, the country overwhelmingly voted in favour of the ‘Yes’ option. However, the broader Chittagong region exhibited a markedly different pattern. In six constituencies, the ‘No’ vote prevailed by a substantial margin, signalling strong local dissent against the July 2023 certificates. Notably, in the […]

Hosne Ara Jemi For over a hundred years, the current of women’s emancipation in this land has flowed—not merely as a history of names or events, but as a struggle for the very self-identity of Bengali society. When, at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, female education was almost forbidden, Begum Rokeya took […]