Put people before profits: HPM Sheikh Hasina urges businessmen

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday asked businessmen to put Bangladesh and its people before profits. “There is no Hawa Bhaban and development wing at the PMO to share your profits with,” she said. Sheikh Hasina was speaking at a meeting with importers and exporters of consumer goods. She said in the last 14 years during th...

PM Sheikh Hasina to open several development projects at Payra Seaport

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to inaugurate and lay the foundation stones of several development schemes at Payra Seaport tomorrow to ensure its smooth operations with better facilities. The development works include capital dredging of the port, inauguration of eight ships, the first terminal and construction of a six-lane approach ...

BNP’s politics of ultimatum

Dr Pranab Kumar Panday: Recent months have seen the political climate in Bangladesh shift toward an election year. Both the ruling and opposing parties have resumed their regular election-time operations. The progress made over the past 14 years is being presented to the public on behalf of the ruling party. The opposition parties have also...

BNP to face people’s uproar during month of victory

Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader today said BNP will face people’s oceanic uproar in December, the month of victory. He said this while addressing the triennial council of Narayanganj district unit of AL at Osmani Stadium here. Quader, also road transport and bridges minister, said people are not with BNP rather they ar...

BNP wants dead bodies to intensify movement: Obaidul Quader

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader today said BNP wants dead bodies to intensify its movement. "BNP tries to frighten people. If they incite killing, the government will not remain liable. We won't let them become successful," he told a discussion at Osmani Memorial auditorium marking the National Road Safety Day. He said if BNP...

Bangladesh’s Significant Role in UN Human Rights Council

Hiren Pandit Bangladesh has bagged a historic win in the election for the membership of the UNHRC for the term 2023-25, by securing 160 votes among 189 casted votes in the United Nations General Assembly. This prestigious win is indeed significant as this was the most competitive international election of all candidatures Bangladesh floated sin...

2001-2006: Khaleda Zia robbed thousands of crores of government resources from public works alone

After coming to power in 2001, BNP-Jamaat activists started looting across the country. Even BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia, the then-prime minister was among the perpetrators. Khaleda Zia herself allocated thousands of crores of wealth from the Ministry of Public Works to her relatives in the five years of her rule. She used the housing and public...

Hawa Bhaban, Tarique Rahman and commission trade of thousands of crores of taka

During the BNP-Jamaat alliance regime from 2001 to 2006, Dhaka’s top terror groups used to get contracts and tenders worth thousands of crores of taka from the Water Development Board (WDB) and the Road Transport and Highways (RTH) department. Soon after coming to power, the coalition government released these top terrorists on the instruc...

2001: Chhatra Dal's murder-rape-extortion under Tarique's support held the entire country hostage

Within six months into the formation of the government on October 20, 2001, BNP-Jamaat leaders and activists established a reign of murder-rape-grabbing-extortion-robbery across the country. Chhatra Dal and Shibir started armed showdowns in educational institutions. They started killing Awami League supporters and ordinary people. Chhatra Dal ca...

BNP-Jamaat politics: 8 murders in 10 days in one district in 2001, 3 more raped in public

BNP-Jamaat leaders and activists started a countrywide killing spree after forming the government on October 20, 2001. They committed shocking and horrific incidents like raping children and women in front of their parents and husbands. Besides extortion and torture, they continued illegally grabbing and occupying businesses and properties of or...

Persecuting minorities by BNP-Jamaat in 2001-06: BNP-backed CBA leader illegally occupied the cremation site to build luxurious leisure home

The period 2001-06 was a terrible time for the Hindu community in Bangladesh. From murder, rape, and land grabbing, they had to endure all sorts of torture. BNP leaders occupied not only the land of the houses but also the cremation ground of the Hindu community. On February 17, 2007, the Prothom Alo reported that Feroz Miah, President of Bangl...

BNP's misrule in 2001-2006: Farmers faced acute fertilizer crisis even during the caretaker government due to the BNP-Jamaat syndicate

Farmers in the country suffered a severe shortage of fertilizers during the BNP-Jamaat government in 2001-06. Many farmers lost their lives while protesting for fertilizers. The national dailies bear testimonies of how active the syndicate was even during the caretaker government in 2007. Fertilizer dealers in Bogra did not distribute the fertil...

Power sector during BNP-Jamaat tenure: Ministers blamed each other for graft, Tarique was at the centre of corruption in name of setting up electric poles

Power generation in Bangladesh declined to a great extent due to massive corruption in the five years since the BNP-Jamaat coalition came to power in 2001. The countrymen were fed up with 16 to 18 hours of load shedding every day. At one point, Iqbal Hasan Mahmud, State Minister for Power, was removed from office due to corruption. The new state...

Mess up in the land mutation process: BNP-Jamaat government attempted for grabbing the land of mass people

The land recording and mutation is a state service. But the BNP-Jamaat government turned this service into a breeding ground for the corruption of thousands of crores of money. From 2001 to 2006, the BNP-Jamaat leaders and activities created a chaotic situation in the land sector through both fake and original mutations for taking bribes from se...

BNP-Jamaat regime: Hawa Bhaban syndicate plundered Tk 3 lakh crores by manipulating commodity prices

During the BNP-Jamaat regime from 2001 to 2006, an undeclared and alternative government was operating from the Hawa Bhaban, the residence of the former prime minister's son, Tarique Rahman. The Hawa Bhaban ring looted Tk 2.86 lakh crores by manipulating the prices of daily commodities in the first four and a half years of the coalition governme...

HPM Sheikh Hasina for producing more food to tackle any challenge

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday (October 11) called upon the countrymen to produce more food to tackle any challenge as the world community is apprehending a deep crisis next year. "Food production has to be increased. It is now inevitable and the utmost importance issue for us," she said. The premier was speaking at the beginning of t...

Questioning Human Rights Situations in Bangladesh: Practise Before You Preach

Dr. Rashid Askari: While Joe Biden’s government along with its parasitical European allies and power-starved Bangladeshi political pawns are making allegations of human rights violations against Sheikh Hasina’s government, Sheikh Hasina remains the centre of attention on both the national and international political scene. She k...

BNP-Jamaat’s torture on voters in 2001: Murder threat to refrain minorities from voting

The violence and attacks on minorities increased at an alarming rate just before the 2001 elections. BNP-Jamaat terrorists beat and threatened more than half a hundred families to refrain from voting. According to a news report by the Prothom Alo on October 1, 2001, the leaders of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islam and Chhatra Dal-Shibir systematically thr...

BNP-Jamaat regime: Denmark withdrew Tk 264 crore aid for endless corruption

The BNP-Jamaat alliance started plundering countless money from the country's every sector including energy, power, climate, telecommunication, and shipping since they came to power in 2001. Denmark withdrew Tk 264 crores (USD 45.5 million) from the development of Bangladesh's shipping sector in 2002 due to the corruption of Khaleda Zia's shippi...

Celebration of festive and fearless Durga Puja

Dr Pranab Kumar Panday: Religious harmony is one of the hallmarks of the culture in Bangladesh. People of different religions have been enjoying the rights of their respective religions in this country since time immemorial. The spontaneous participation of people of other religions in the ceremonies of one religion has given a universal charac...