Faruque Ahmed
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called for national unity and reconciliation last week and invited all political party leaders particularly taking aiming at BNP and Oikyafront leaders to a dialogue or post-election meeting to exchange greetings. Party leaders say it aims at building trust and bridging the gap to ally opposition support behind the new government.
President Md Abdul Hamid has also made similar call for national unity at the opening of the 11th parliament on January 30. It went into session on expiry of the outgoing parliament on January 29 however leaving a writ pending behind in the High Court challenging how the members of the new parliament could take oath earlier this month before the expiry of outgoing parliament. Full Story
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Shakhawat Hossain
A Bangladeshi anti-drugs campaign, in which more than 300 people have died, has raised national as well as international concerns but the government has dismissed any suggestion of extra-judicial killings and said the crackdown had popular support in the country.
Likewise, in the Philippines, thousands of suspects were also killed since President Rodrigo Duterte took office two years ago. Duterte had also angrily rejected international concern about the violence there. Full Story
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Muhammad Quamrul Islam
The invitation card signed by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been sent to 75 parties to attend a tea-party on February 2, 2019 at Ganobhavan. The invitees are those who participated in Dialogue on different dates before the eleventh Parliamentary election.
This is garden party just a courtesy to exchange greetings and pleasantly, but not for any political dialogue of any sort, as clarified to the media by Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader, and PM’s political adviser HT Imam, and politician shown. Full Story
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Special Correspondent
Though first session of the 11th parliament began on January 31, Bangladesh, one of the world’s largest parliamentary democracies, has for the first time in recent history has experieed a strange problem of finding a suitable and acceptable opposition in parliament after the most controvercial one sided fixing national polls completed on December 30. Full Story
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Special Correspondent
The National Human Rights Commission of Bangladesh (BHRC) has said, apart from road accidents and cases of suicide, a total of 185 people have been killed—for various reasons—across the country, in the very first month of January 2019.
The commission shared the findings in a press release on Thursday. Full Story
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