Dhaka Mirror

Staff Correspondent Prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s petition for quashing the Niko graft case was on Sunday dropped from the list of cases for hearing in the High Court. The petition was on the list since August 2008. The High Court bench of Justice Sheikh Rezowan Ali and Justice Md Rais Uddin de-listed the petition, after ... Read more

UNB, Dhaka A special parliamentary committee has okayed 54 ordinances out of 122 promulgated by the President during the immediate-past caretaker government for enactment as laws during the ongoing first session of parliament. The special committee, headed by Advocate Rahmat Ali MP of the ruling Awami League, will submit its scrutiny report on the ordinances ... Read more

BNP will strengthen Mohila Dal at grassroots Staff Correspondent BNP Joint Secretary General Abdullah Al Noman on Sunday said that among the reasons of defeat on Dec-ember 29, 2008 national election, is that BNP did not get sufficient votes of women though more than 50 per cent of total voters were women. “Like other front ... Read more

Staff Correspondent By-elections to seven parliamentary constituencies vacated by four top leaders will be held on March 30, the Election Commission (EC) announced yesterday. The constituencies are Kishoreganj-6, Bagerhat-1, Rangpur-3 and 6, Bogra-6 and 7, and Kurigram-2. According to the polls schedule, the deadline for filing nomination papers is March 2 while the scrutiny of ... Read more

bdnews24.com, Dhaka China will fully cooperate with Bangladesh in its bid to set up a nuclear power plant, the Chinese ambassador said on Sunday. “We welcome the Bangla-deshi side to communicate on this issue,” Zheng Qingdian said at a press conference at the Dhaka Reporters’ Unity auditorium in the city. Bangladesh and China had signed ... Read more

Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha . Dhaka The 25th death anniversary of Bangabir General Mohammad Ataul Gani Osmani will be observed today with due respect. General Osmani, the commander-in-chief of the liberation forces in 1971, died on February 16, 1984 at a London hospital. The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, and the leader of the opposition in parliament, ... Read more

Staff Reporter The opposition BNP has decided not only to abstain from attending the parliament sessions but also to avoid the special committee meetings from now on. The decision was taken at BNP Parliamentary Party [BNPPP] meeting held at its chamber in the House yesterday to protest against inclusion of two BNP MPs bypassing one ... Read more

Staff Correspondent Five-year-old boy Shuvo, who suffered fatal burns at the hands of his stepmother, died of his wounds yesterday morning after fighting for his life for almost a month. The woman Shuvo’s father married to take care of the motherless boy, killed the child instead. The chilling incident occurred at city’s Kachukhet Puranbazar area. ... Read more

Staff Correspondent Bangladesh Plastic Goods Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BPGMEA) has placed 5-point demand including withdrawing the bank guarantee, fixing up 3 per cent tax on local industry instead of 7 per cent and building up a plastic industrial city. The demands came when a delegation of BPGMEA, lead by its president Md Jashim Uddin ... Read more

WB invites RDA to present the model at its HQ on Feb 19 Hasibur Rahman Bilu, Bogra Rural Development Academy (RDA), Bogra, is to present RDA-Model of Water Management at the World Bank headquarters in Washington, DC on February 19 for its adaptation across the globe. The water management model uses underground pipes to irrigate ... Read more