Dhaka Mirror

bdnews24.com, Dhaka The long-overdue Dhaka City Corporation elections will be held in April, chief election commissioner ATM Shamsul Huda said on Wednesday. EC officials say they are likely to be held in the second week of April. “We are thinking of holding them in April, but before fixing the schedule we will take the opinion ... Read more

Stabs 3 others before fleeing A Correspondent, Kishoreganj A sub-inspector (SI) of police was stabbed to death and three other policemen, including another SI, were injured by a mugger at Bhairabpur of Bhairab upazila headquarters last evening. The deceased was identified as SI Mustafizur Rahman while the injured were SI Mizanur Rahman, constables Ruhul Amin ... Read more

Hasan Mahmud tells CNN-IBN Star Report Bangladesh has for the first time admitted that its territory and porous borders may have been used by terrorist groups to target India and says it is committed to acting against them. The Harkat-ul-Jehad (Huji), the anti-Indian militant group, continues to function in Bangladesh though it has been banned, ... Read more

Bdnews24.com . Dhaka The founder of Facebook says the social network will return to its previous terms of service regarding user data, according to BBC Online. In a blog post Mark Zuckerberg said the move was temporary ‘while we resolve the issues that people have raised’. Users had complained after new terms of service seemed ... Read more

A Correspondent, Dinajpur A truck loaded with goods worth Tk 5 lakh was looted allegedly by the activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), the student wing of Awami League (AL), at Ghoraghat in Dinajpur on Tuesday. The cumin-laden truck was heading for Bogra when the BCL activists came from behind on four motorcycles and stopped ... Read more

Cabinet okays numerous ordns, legal amendments UNB, Dhaka Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said those who were involved in formulating the voter list ahead of the cancelled January 22, 2007 election should be brought to justice as it was “full of fake voters”. She made the remark at Monday’s marathon cabinet meeting at Bangladesh secretariat, which ... Read more

JS special body states in draft report; blasts Iajuddin for stepping beyond constitution Shakhawat Liton A draft report of the parliament’s special committee calls the formation of immediate past caretaker government and many of its activities extra-constitutional. The report is likely to be placed in the House today. It also accuses immediate past president Iajuddin ... Read more

JU Correspondent At least 40 activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) of Jahangirnagar University (JU) unit were injured in clashes between the two rival groups of the organization yesterday turning the campus into a virtual war field. To avert any

Fresh bill being drafted to cover Jan 22 polls, let MPs meddle in development activities Shakhawat Liton The efforts to free the local government bodies from political control might go in vain as provisions in the ordinances concerned requiring the public representatives-elect to resign from their party positions before taking oath are likely to be ... Read more

Bdnews24.com . Dhaka The leader of the opposition in parliament, Khaleda Zia, has accused ruling party of failing to show broadmindedness despite its huge majority in parliament. ‘We want to cooperate with the government by joining the current session of parliament. But the ruling party is barring us from contributing by snatching our seats,’ the ... Read more

Primary Education in Shambles-3 Govt faces big task to get total literacy 7 lakh new teachers, 30,000 schools needed Suranjith Deabnath and Raihan Sabuktagin The government faces a great challenge in realising its election pledge of total literacy in the country by 2014 because of the heavy dropout of children from primary schools and acute ... Read more

Staff Correspondent Most of the Dhaka city shops are violating the government ban on daily business after 8:00pm, adding to load shedding while the SSC examinees are being the worst sufferers owing to power outages during the evening hours. Most of the big shops and shopping malls in the Dhanmondi, Mohammadpur, Mirpur, Maghbazar, Khilgaon and ... Read more

MACHINE-READABLE PASSPORTS, VISAS Govt takes fresh move Asif Showkat The government has initiated a fresh move to introduce machine-readable passports and visas as the international deadline restricting travel without them expires at the end of March 2010, said the planning ministry’s officials on Monday. ‘The project proposal for introduction of the much-discussed machine-readable passports and ... Read more

Govt planning to enter into water sharing agreements for other 53 rivers Staff Correspondent Bangladesh is deprived of proper share in Ganges water as per treaty as India is not providing expected flow of water as required by the agreement signed between two countries in 1996. Article 2(2) of Sharing of the Ganges Waters stipulates ... Read more

Staff Correspondent Number of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) bearers may reach a threat-level abruptly as around 6.5 million people are drug users as well as the number is rising in the country alarmingly while 0.4 per cent of total injecting drug users (IDU) are infected with HIV. Around 15,000-25,000 people are infected with HIV and ... Read more

UNB, Dhaka After a relentless movement, the government yesterday assured the unsuccessful candidates of the controversial 27th BCS examinations of job in accordance with the first phase results. Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid and Textile and Jute Minister Abdul Latif Siddiqui said that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina instructed them to inform that they will get ... Read more

Syful Islam A move is afoot to start direct banking arrangement and border trade to accelerate business between Bangladesh and Myanmar. A Bangladesh delegation led by Deputy Governor of Bangladesh Bank Ziaul Hasan Siddiqui will visit Myanmar from February 19 to 26 to have detail discussion with proper authority. Other members of the delegation include ... Read more

Rakib Hasnet Suman The initiative for ensuring local government bodies’ transparency and accountability and the balanced development across the country is likely to be hampered as the local government commission (LGC) is set to lose its effectiveness. The parliamentary special committee recommended not to ratify the ordinance on LGC, which the caretaker government promulgated last ... Read more

Rejaul Karim Byron The much-awaited machine-readable passport (MRP) and visa project will be placed at a meeting of Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) today. The five-year project will be implemented at a cost of Tk 350 crore although the last BNP-led alliance government attempted to undertake the project with an estimated cost ... Read more

Staff Correspondent The cabinet yesterday approved in principle 10 of the 54 ordinances the parliamentary special committee recommended for making into laws. More ordinances out of the remaining 44 are likely to get the cabinet nod Wednesday, sources said. The special committee, formed to examine the ordinances promulgated by the last caretaker government, recommended 54 ... Read more