JUCSU election: Voting resumes with long queues at Tajuddin Hall after brief pause
Voting at Tajuddin Hall, one of the 21 polling centres in Jahangirnagar University’s Central Students’ Union (JUCSU) election, resumed after a half-hour suspension, leaving voters waiting in long lines. The halt followed a brief incident when Sheikh Sadi Hasan, candidate for vice-president from the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal faction, attempted to enter the hall, triggering tensions among voters and polling agents. Professor Lutful Elahi, provost of Tajuddin Hall, confirmed the disruption around 11:45am and said voting resumed at 12:15pm once the situation was under control. Of the 947 registered voters at Tajuddin Hall, only around 350 had cast ballots by 2:30pm, forcing students to wait in long lines. Despite the brief interruption, polling continued across all 21 halls, reflecting a tense but largely orderly voting process in the university’s fiercely contested student union election.
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September 11, 2025 13:31 UTC
Bangladesh football team reaches home safely from Kathmandu
After days of uncertainty and tension, the Bangladesh national men’s football team has safely returned home from Kathmandu amid deadly anti-government protests. The Bangladesh Air Force’s special flight, carrying Javier Cabrera’s squad, landed at the Kurmitola Air Base, Bir Uttam AK Khandakar, at 4:40pm on Thursday. Parliament buildings and ministerial residences were set ablaze, a curfew was imposed, and the airport temporarily closed, leaving the Bangladesh team stranded at their hotel in Kathmandu. The Bangladesh government, in coordination with the Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) and the Bangladesh Embassy in Kathmandu, arranged for the team’s safe return. Journalists covering the Bangladesh-Nepal matches, who were also trapped in Kathmandu, also returned on the Air Force jet.
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September 11, 2025 12:06 UTC
14 senior police officials transferred in another reshuffle
The interim government has once again reshuffled 14 senior police officials at the levels of additional deputy inspector general and superintendent of police amid regular changes to the force’s leadership since the July Uprising. The Ministry of Home Affairs issued a notice to the effect on Thursday. The notice included orders reassigning the duties of eight additional DIGs and six SPs. Among the eight additional DIGs reassigned, two are from the Dhaka Metropolitan Police, one each are from the Chattogram Metropolitan Police and Barishal Metropolitan Police, and another is from the Chattogram Range. In addition, the list also contains the Chuadanga SP, the Railway SP, and several officials in the Police Bureau of Investigation at the SP level.
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September 11, 2025 11:44 UTC
Religion Advisor Khalid Hossain meets Pakistan Prime Minister Sharif
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has met with Religious Affairs Advisor AFM Khalid Hossain. It also added that Sharif referred to his recent meetings with Bangladesh’s chief advisor in New York and Cairo. Khalid handed over a letter from Yunus to the Pakistani prime minister. “In this difficult time, the people of Bangladesh stand by the brotherly people of Pakistan,” Yunus wrote, according to the press statement. Earlier in the week, Khalid met in Lahore with former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter, Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz.
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September 11, 2025 11:38 UTC
Apple growers in Indian Kashmir face crippling losses from floods, road closures
Kashmiri apple growers sort muddy apples in their water-logged orchards after heavy rain damaged the crop in Pulwama district, Indian Kashmir, Sept 10, 2025. REUTERSKashmiri apple growers sort muddy apples in their water-logged orchards after heavy rain damaged the crop in Pulwama district, Indian Kashmir, Sept 10, 2025. REUTERSApple growers in Indian Kashmir are staring at huge losses this year as floods and highway closures disrupt the peak harvest season, enmeshing growers and truckers in uncertainty, farmers and industry officials say. India’s apple production is concentrated in the mountainous regions of Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh, with most of the fruit consumed domestically. "My family is solely dependent on apple orchards, but the recent floods have devastated everything," said Shahid Ahmad, as he stood among trees spattered with mud and bruised fruit scattered in his orchard at the town of Pulwama.
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September 11, 2025 11:21 UTC
Bangladesh buys more power from India, lifts fuel oil use as electricity demand rises
Bangladesh buys more power from India, lifts fuel oil use as electricity demand risesBangladesh is boosting power imports from India and output from fuel oil-fired power plants in a scramble to meet rising electricity demand as it grapples with constraints on gas supply and coal plant maintenance, industry officials and analysts say. Natural gas accounted for about two-thirds of Bangladesh's power demand in the decade that ended in 2020, but the country has been boosting power imports and local coal-fired generation due to gas infrastructure challenges and to cut costs. A senior official of the Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) said many gas-fired plants were not running at capacity because of pressure-related technical problems, while coal-fired power output was lower due to maintenance outages. "When power demand started increasing since March, they had to increase imports and fuel oil-based power generation," said Shafiqul Alam, a Bangladesh-based analyst at the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis. Still, gas-fired power generation fell 1.2 percent, according to government data.
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September 11, 2025 10:12 UTC
JUCSU votes manually following Chhatra Dal complaint
The Election Commission of Jahangirnagar University has decided to count votes manually in the ongoing Central Student Union (JUCSU) election, following allegations raised by the Chhatra Dal student group. Professor Mafruhi Sattar, a member of the JUCSU Election Commission and faculty of the Pharmacy Department, confirmed the development to bdnews24.com on Thursday afternoon. “We had initially planned to count the votes using ballot papers and the OMR machine,” he said. “However, a student organization—Chhatra Dal—fialed a complaint regarding the use of the OMR machine. He said that after informing the university administration, the authorities, under pressure, decided to switch from machine-based counting to manual counting.
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September 11, 2025 10:04 UTC
Stranded in Nepal amid unrest, Bangladesh football team depart for Dhaka
The Bangladesh national football team, stranded in Kathmandu amid anti-government protests and escalating violence while on a friendly tour, has begun its journey back to Dhaka. From road blockades to arson and widespread unrest, we were deeply concerned for the safety of the Bangladesh football team.”Ensuring the team’s safe return became the top priority. The operation to return the team was coordinated jointly by the Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF), the Bangladesh Embassy in Kathmandu, and the government. The Bangladesh team remained trapped at their hotel. On Wednesday, a statement from the Ministry of Youth and Sports emphasised “maximum effort” for the team’s safe return.
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September 11, 2025 09:50 UTC
JUCSU votes to be counted by hand after Chhatra Dal complaint
The Jahangirnagar University Central Students’ Union (JUCSU) Election Commission has decided to count votes by hand following a complaint by the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD). Commission member and Pharmacy teacher Prof Mafruhi Sattar confirmed the decision to bdnews24.com on Thursday afternoon. He said, "Initially, we decided to count the ballot papers using Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) machines. “In response, we, as a commission, decided to count the votes manually." Under pressure, the administration immediately decided to count votes by hand instead of using OMR machines," he said.
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September 11, 2025 09:42 UTC
JUCSU vote: JCD central leader detained from Rabindranath Tagore Hall
A central Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) leader has been detained at Bishwakabi Rabindranath Tagore Hall during the ongoing Jahangirnagar University Central Students’ Union (JUCSU) election. The detainee, Hafizur Rahman Sohan, is serving as the vice president of the central JCD committee. He was a student from the 36th batch (2006-07 academic year) at the university, reports bdnews24.com. The JCD leader was detained in a hall room around 11:00 am on Thursday.
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September 11, 2025 08:13 UTC
BD takes first step to count unpaid domestic, care work in GDP
Bangladesh has for the first time put a value on unpaid household and care work, in a move seen as a step towards recognising women's invisible contribution to the economy.The Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) and UN Women Bangladesh have launched a new Household Production Satellite Account (HPSA), developed with support from the Asian Development Bank under the global Women Count programme.The HPSA estimates that activities such as cooking, cleaning, childcare and caring for the elderly or disabled contributed Tk 6.7 trillion ($56bn) in 2021 - equivalent to 18.9 percent of the country's GDP.Women carried out 85 percent of that work.The initiative follows the interim government's pledge in the 2025-26 budget to reflect unpaid labour in official economic data. The estimates draw on the 2021 Time Use Survey and the 2022 Labour Force Survey.The report recommends changes to laws and budgets to recognise unpaid care, the creation of care-related jobs in the private sector, and the introduction of family-friendly workplace policies.It also urges efforts to engage men and boys in caregiving to reduce the disproportionate burden on women.Women and Children Affairs Advisor Sharmeen Murshid said the findings would help shape gender-responsive policymaking and shift public attitudes towards recognising the care economy.UN Women's Country Representative Gitanjali Singh described unpaid care as "an investment, not a cost".ADB's Principal Statistician Mahinthan Joseph Mariasingham said the estimates provide evidence to address wage gaps and can act as a guide for investment in care services. �"bdnews24.com
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September 11, 2025 07:09 UTC
Bangladesh football team to set off for Dhaka from Nepal at 3pm
Bangladesh football team to set off for Dhaka from Nepal at 3pmThe Bangladesh national football team, which had gone to Kathmandu to play their Nepali counterparts in friendly matches only to be caught in the country’s political unrest, are finally headed back home. The arrangements for their return were made through the combined efforts of the Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF), the Bangladeshi Embassy in Kathmandu, and the Bangladesh government. The Bangladesh football team went to Nepal on Sept 3 to play two friendly matches. Amid the unrest, the Bangladesh football team was stranded in a hotel in Kathmandu. A statement from the Ministry of Youth and Sports on Wednesday said, “The government is making the greatest possible effort for the safe return of the Bangladesh national football team stationed in Nepal.
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September 11, 2025 05:54 UTC
JUCSU polls: Low turnout in first hour
Voting got underway at the JUCSU polls at Jahangirnagar University slightly after the scheduled time. Following the election at Dhaka University, all eyes have turned to the JUCSU polls at the campus in Savar, near Dhaka. The candidates also called for everyone to come and cast their ballots at the polling centres. This could be a factor in the election, students believe. Jamin Haider, a voter in the JUCSU polls, expected 60 per cent of the votes to be cast.
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September 11, 2025 05:47 UTC
Nepal's young protesters back former chief justice as interim head
Nepal's former Chief Justice Sushila Karki looks on during the launch of her autobiography "Nyaya" at a ceremony in Kathmandu, Nepal, Sept 22, 2018. REUTERSNepal's former Chief Justice Sushila Karki looks on during the launch of her autobiography "Nyaya" at a ceremony in Kathmandu, Nepal, Sept 22, 2018. Sushila Karki, 73, who was the first woman to be appointed Nepal's chief justice in 2016 and is now retired, has been the frontrunner to become interim leader of the impoverished Himalayan country, which is wedged between India and China. Local media reported that Karki was in talks with President Ramchandra Paudel and army chief Ashok Raj Sigdel. 'FEARLESS' LEADER"We see Sushila Karki for who she truly is — honest, fearless, and unshaken," said Sujit Kumar Jha, a 34-year-old company secretary.
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September 11, 2025 04:53 UTC
Advisor Sakhawat suspends two BIWTA officials over bribery allegations
The Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) has suspended two officials following bribery allegations. In a statement on Wednesday, the Ministry of Shipping said the action was taken on the instruction of Advisor M Sakhawat Hussain. The suspended officials are Md Abdur Rahim, additional director (marine) of the preservation and operations division, and deputy director Obaidul Karim Khan. The ministry said the case involved bribery linked to awarding fuel supply contracts. Departmental action will follow against the officials concerned, while legal measures have been directed against any others found involved,” the statement added.
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September 11, 2025 02:32 UTC