Wednesday, 19 August 2026

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Presidential election voting tomorrow, oath-taking Friday: Chief Whip

Voting to the country’s presidential election will be held tomorrow (Thursday) afternoon, while the newly elected president will take oath at Bangabhaban on Friday evening, Chief Whip of Jatiya Sangsad Md. Nurul Islam Moni said today. He disclosed this at a press conference at the Jatiya Sangsad Bha

PM declares Mirza Fakhrul as President candidate from BNP

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman formally declared Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir as the President candidate from BNP at a meeting of the party's standing committee today. When the Prime Minister proposed the name of Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir for nomination of the President candidate, the standing commi

6 police officers sack over unauthorized absence and desertion

Six police officers, including former Dhaka Metropolitan Police Joint Commissioners Biplob Kumar Sarkar and Sudip Kumar Chakraborty, have been dismissed from service over allegations of unauthorized absence from duty and desertion, according to separate notifications issued by the Ministry of Home A

Presidential Election: Mirza Fakhrul Finalized as BNP Candidate

Bangladesh Nationalist Party has finalised Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir as its candidate for the country’s next presidential election, according to multiple BNP leaders who confirmed the decision on Tuesday night. The formal announcement is expected on Wednesday or Thursday, ahead of the August 13 no

Bangladesh Sets Presidential Election for 20 August, EC Announces

Bangladesh’s Election Commission on Thursday announced the schedule for the presidential election, setting 20 August as the voting date. If more than one candidate contests, voting will be held from 2pm to 5pm in the Jatiya Sangsad chamber.

Former President Mohammed Shahabuddin Leaves Bangabhaban

Former Bangladesh President Mohammed Shahabuddin left Bangabhaban shortly before 2:30pm on Sunday, two days after resigning from office, and is expected to move into his own flat in Gulshan. Shahabuddin submitted his resignation letter to the Speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad on Friday afternoon, citin

President Mohammed Shahabuddin Resigns

President Mohammed Shahabuddin has resigned. Parliamentary sources said, with Speaker Hafiz Uddin Ahmed scheduled to speak at a 5pm briefing on Friday at the Parliament complex about receiving the President’s resignation letter. The information was confirmed by sources at the Parliament Secretariat.

Mirza Fakhrul Says Will Know Next President ‘In Due Time’

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said on Friday that it was not possible to say anything definitively about who would be the next president of Bangladesh, adding that the matter would become clear “in due time.”

President Mohammed Shahabuddin May Resign Within Days

President Mohammed Shahabuddin may resign within the next one or two days, according to multiple sources in the BNP and Bangabhaban cited on Thursday by Ajker Patrika. If he steps down, Speaker Hafiz Uddin Ahmed will discharge the duties of president in line with the Constitution. A Bangabhaban offi

Zia's assassination

40 officers raise their hands in support of General Manzoor's words

Major General Manzoor, then General Officer Commanding in Chittagong, summoned senior military officers to his office by 7am after being informed by Major Mozaffar that “The President has been killed.” In the meeting, Manzoor told 40 officers that some army officers had killed President Zia, after w

Zia's assassination

The entire operation took only 9 minutes

An investigative report says Bangladesh President General Ziaur Rahman was killed in a nine-minute military operation at Chittagong Circuit House in the early hours of 30 May 1981, after a group of army officers moved out of Chittagong Cantonment in heavy rain and launched an armed assault on the bu

Two blasts near Damascus hotel

Two explosions took place in central Damascus on Tuesday near the hotel where French President Emmanuel Macron spent the night, a Syrian security source told AFP. One of the bombs was placed in a dumpster and the other in a vehicle near the Four Seasons Hotel, the source said. The French president

Bangladesh plans four-dimensional military upgrade to face cyber and AI threats

Bangladesh’s armed forces are to be modernized into a "four-dimensional," technology-driven force to counter rapidly evolving security challenges, including cyberattacks and artificial intelligence-based risks, the country’s president has announced. President Mohammed Shahabuddin said the shift was