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A bipartisan group of US congressmen has voiced great worry about Bangladesh's worsening democracy and human rights situation, urging Secretary of State Antony Blinken to take action. In a letter to the state secretary, 22 legislators, led by Senator Edward J Markey and Representatives Jim McGovern and Bill Keating, cited recent deadly crackdowns on student demonstrators by Bangladeshi security forces and argued for urgent action. The legislators stated: "The Bangladeshi government has continued to take…

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Tuesday that international technical support will be provided to the government's judicial investigative committee, which is tasked with conducting a fair and standard investigation into the quota reform movement. "We will take foreign technical assistance for the judicial inquiry committee to make it appropriate, qualitative and highly standard," she said. The prime minister said as German Ambassador to Bangladesh Achim Troster visited her at her official house in…

Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Huq has said the government is set to ban Jamaat-e-Islami through an executive order by tomorrow. "We would do that through an executive order," the minister said while talking to newsmen at the ministry this noon. Anisul said he would hold a meeting with the Home Minister to fix the process. The decision to ban Jamaat-Shibir was taken at a meeting of the Prime Minister and the leaders of 14-party at the PM's official residence Ganabhaban on Monday…

Jannatul Fardous The presumptive nomination of Vice President Kamala Harris to run for the Democratic Party in November's presidential election continues to make waves in US politics. The Harris campaign team said on Sunday that in her first week since President Joe Biden dropped out of the race, and the party coalesced around her, the candidate raised over $200 million in donations. "In the week since we got started, Kamala Harris has raised $200 million dollars. 66% of that is from new donors. We've signed up…

Jannatul Fardous Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has won a third term with 51 per cent of the vote, the country's electoral authority said just after midnight on Monday, despite multiple exit polls which pointed to an opposition win. The authority said opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez won 44 per cent of the vote, though the opposition had earlier said it had "reasons to celebrate" and asked supporters to continue monitoring vote counts. Appearing before jubilant supporters at the presidential palace, Maduro…

A petition has been filed in the High Court seeking an order for the release of six reform movement coordinators from the custody of the Detective Branch of police. Additionally, the petition filed on Monday requested an order for authorities to stop shooting at quota reform protesters. Supreme Court lawyers Manjur Al Matin Pritam and Ainnunahar Siddika Lipi filed the petition in the High Court. Lawyer of the writ petitions Anik R Haque said, "A High Court bench comprising justice Mustafa Zaman Islam and…

"Do not ridicule the nation," the High Court commented during a hearing on Monday. The High Court made the comment during the hearing on a writ petition that sought the top court’s rule on immediate release of ‘so-called’ detained six coordinators of the anti-discriminatory movement, as well as on stopping the police firing on protesters at various places of the country. The High Court bench of Justice Mustafa Zaman Islam and Justice SM Masud Hossain Dolon started hearing the writ at 1:30 pm. At one stage…