BNP Standing Committee member and head of the party’s election management committee Nazrul Islam Khan has said that an unusually large number of new voters have appeared in some areas over the past one to one and a half years.
Foreign Affairs Adviser of the interim government, Md Touhid Hossain, has expressed optimism that voter turnout in the upcoming 13th National Parliamentary Election will exceed 55 percent.
Jamaat-e-Islami has claimed that its Ameer’s X (formerly Twitter) account was not hacked; rather, the device used by him was compromised.
Agitated residents blocked the Dhaka–Chattogram highway at the capital’s Rayerbagh–Shonir Akhra area on Sunday (February 1) after gas supply remained cut for seven consecutive days, causing severe traffic congestion and public suffering.
A mild earthquake measuring 3.0 on the Richter scale was felt in different parts of the country. India’s National Centre for Seismology said the tremor struck early Sunday (February 1), at around 4:00am.
BNP Chairperson’s Adviser and Election Steering Committee Spokesperson Dr. Mahdi Amin has expressed skepticism over Jamaat-e-Islami’s claim that its Amir’s X (formerly Twitter) account was hacked following a controversial post about women, calling the explanation “unconvincing” and “delayed.”