Amid resistance from environmentalists and locals, the government has withdrawn the decision to construct Kalabagan Police Station on Tetultala playground -- at Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s instruction.

When workers were busy constructing boundary walls under the supervision of police at Tetultala playground, leaders of different green organisations, socio-cultural organisations and right groups planted trees next to it this afternoon.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has not cleared up the confusion created over the ongoing construction of a police station at Tetultala playground in Dhaka’s Kalabagan, rights activists said today.

Twenty-two members of transgender community in Barguna received new houses as Eid gift from Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today.

The US Commission on International Religious Freedom has expressed deep concerns about the worsening religious freedom conditions in Bangladesh and other South Asian countries.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has said that the Kalabagan Police Station is being constructed at the city's Tetultala​​​​​​​ playground with permission of all the authorities concerned.

Despite resistance from environmentalists, human rights bodies, eminent citizens, local people and children, construction work of Kalabagan police station is going on at Tetultala playground.

Environmental organisations today demanded that the government withdraw the decision of constructing Kalabagan police station building on Tetultala playground and keep it open for all.

The proposed Mass Media Employees (Services Conditions) Bill conflicts with the prevailing judiciary, industrial law and the country’s labour law, said the Newspaper Owners’ Association of Bangladesh (NOAB) today.

Kalabagan police today picked up Syeda Ratna, who has been leading protests to save Tetultola playground in Dhaka, along with her son Mohammad Isha Abdullah this morning.

The draft data protection act, the anti-discrimination bill, the new social media and OTT regulations, and the mass media employees bill are meant to protect the rights of citizens, but none will do so, said experts.

The US is encouraged to see that people from different faith groups live together peacefully in Bangladesh, but there are some elements who divide and create conflicts, said US Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Rashad Hussain today.

The United States is aware of human rights violations and is trying to stand by the minorities who are persecuted around the world, US Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Rashad Hussain said yesterday (April 17, 2022).

The government yesterday said the US human rights (HR) country report “heavily underplayed” Bangladesh’s existing system of accountability over law enforcement agencies while Dhaka remains “intensely engaged” with the UN mechanism and US recommendations to protect human rights.

Fifteen-year-old Md Musa is one of the many child transport workers in Chattogram, employed as a helper of a human haulier on the Chawkbazar to Halishahar Baro Pool route.

Eminent citizens today (April 17, 2022) said discriminatory behaviour should be recognised as a "punishable offence" in the proposed “anti-discrimination law” to eliminate malpractice in the country.

State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam today said the government will ask for explanation from the US side on the recently published human rights report, noting that there are fundamental flaws in it.

The government’s draft regulation for digital, social media and OTT platforms will be a threat to freedom of speech and people’s basic rights, experts said yesterday.

The government’s draft regulation for digital, social media and OTT platforms will be a threat to freedom of speech and curb people’s basic rights, experts said today.

Eminent citizens yesterday said the long-anticipated anti-discrimination bill sparks hope, but it should undergo significant changes before it’s passed.