February 13, 2026 4:21 pm
Roy won the Dhaka-3 seat with 99,163 votes, defeating his nearest rival, Jamaat-e-Islami candidate Md Shahinur Islam.
July 07, 2025 12:04 pm
Bangladesh’s ICT is an example of both right and wrong — it created a precedent for prosecuting genocide in South Asia, but it neglected due process. Sheikh Hasina is feeling its fallout now
September 13, 2024 7:33 am
The Jamaat-e-Islami could not get the ban against it lifted, several candidates backed by it withdrew, and not many are given much of a chance. But nobody is counting out the symbolism
August 28, 2024 5:58 pm
Jamaat-e-Islami has been barred from elections since 2013, when the Election Commission revoked its registration and the High Court upheld the decision, citing the party’s constitutional violations related to secularism.
August 27, 2024 9:29 pm
The banned outfit is also backing another Independent in J&K first phase polls; it proposed to field seven candidates for this phase, but three of them backed out
February 20, 2023 9:57 am
Starting his month-long, statewide yatra from today, M V Govindan says: "Centre stifling Kerala financially... denying aid to us citing high HDI"
September 16, 2022 5:30 am
Officials said two prominent religious clerics from south Kashmir — Mushtaq Ahmad Veeri and Abdul Rashid Dawoodi — were called to the police stations and detained. Officials said the clerics were later booked under the PSA and could be shifted to jails outside Kashmir valley.
June 20, 2019 3:06 am
The Tribunal has also issued a notification saying that anybody among the public can come and depose before them.
March 06, 2019 6:43 pm
Mufti, who had condemned the Home Ministry move to declare JeI an “unlawful organisation”, also demanded the release of the outfit's elderly members while warning of an escalation in their agitation.
March 01, 2019 12:24 am
A notification, banning the group under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, was issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs after a high-level meeting on security, chaired by PM Modi.



