After coming to power in 2001, Arafat Rahman Koko, the younger son of then Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, used to regularly receive a percentage from all major government contracts and tenders in the country till 2006. This son of Ziaur Rahman used to pressure his mother to give the projects to the preferred company as per the demand. After the car...
During the BNP-Jamaat regime, the Hawa Bhaban office of Tarique Rahman misappropriated bank money in name of taking loans in a very well-planned way. Approximately Tk 400 crore were embezzled from the Ramna and Narayanganj branches of Sonali Bank as loans. Thousands of crores of money were stolen from the bank using the names of various companie...
During the last days of the BNP-Jamaat coalition government, Public Works Affairs Minister Mirza Abbas illegally leased two acres of railway land, worth Tk 51 crores then, to an unnamed and fake association without tendering. This BNP leader, who is close to Tarique Rahman, completed the entire process in just 14 days on instructions from Hawa B...
During the BNP-Jamaat government from 2001 to 2006, Chhatra and Shibir terrorists killed around half a hundred people and injured thousands during every Eid over extortion. During Eid al-Adha in 2003, Shibir cadres shot two Awami League leaders to death inside a madrassa while they were in a meeting to collect rawhide for children in orphanages....
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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