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Staff Correspondent BNP Chairperson and Leader of the Opposition Khaleda Zia at a meeting with party lawmakers yesterday discussed their strategy at the inaugural session of the ninth parliament today. She also selected her party representatives in the Business Advisory Committee, Privilege Committee and Housing Committee of parliament. Held at the party chairperson’s Gulshan office, ... Read more

bdnews24.com, Dhaka Speaker Jamiruddin Sircar on Saturday gave a new twist to the ongoing row over seat arrangements, overriding the government whips’ decision ahead of the inaugural sitting of the new parliament on Sunday afternoon. “The arrangement proposed by the chief whip proved to be wrong and it was righted by the Speaker,” Sircar, the ... Read more

Staff Correspondent At least 46 people, including 21 jail guards and 20 madrasa students were injured yesterday in a clash between the two sides over control of a playground in the capital’s Lalbagh area. Authorities of Govt Madrasa-e-Alia alleged that the jail guards ransacked six rooms at one of its dormitories near the

UNB, Dhaka As part of its efforts to resolve the country’s chronic power crisis, the new government appears to make it a priority to implement 10 power plant projects initiated by previous governments. According to official sources, moves had been initiated by the previous BNP-led coalition government and the caretaker government to implement these power ... Read more

Staff Correspondent Two senior most judges of High Court Division of the Supreme Court (SC) — Justice Shah Abu Nayeem Mominur Rahman and Justice Md Abdul Aziz– will be appointed judges of Appellate Division of the SC, law ministry sources said yesterday. They are being appointed as per recommendations of the Supreme Judicial Commission. The ... Read more

Staff Reporter At least four people were killed and nearly fifty others injured in the post upazila elections violence by the ruling party activists and supporters in different districts of the country yesterday. They also allegedly ransacked and set fire to the election offices of rival candidates. The incident of violence took place in Faridpur, ... Read more

Staff Correspondent Dense fog disrupted road and river communications across the country and caused the suspension of flight operations at Zia International Airport (ZIA) for hours yesterday. Ferry services between Paturia and Daulatdia, Paturia and Kazirhat and Mawa and Kawrakandi were disrupted for around 12 hours that left hundreds of vehicles and thousands of passengers ... Read more

Siddiqur Rahman Khan The government has failed to publish the English version textbooks for secondary courses for 2009 even about a month inside the academic year. The English version textbooks are sold to the students of the English medium schools which offer education in keeping with the board curriculum and a number of kindergartens. ‘We ... Read more

Staff Correspondent At least three people were killed and dozens injured in a spate of violence in different parts of the country during and after Thursday’s upazila elections, police said. An activist of the ruling Awami League was stabbed to death by rivals in Faridpur district while a supporter of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party ... Read more

Taskforce recommends blacklisting Huawei; punish BTTB officials Sharier Khan and Md Hasan A national taskforce blames Chinese telecom vendor Huawei for supplying substandard equipment and its failure to complete within deadline any of the government’s three telecom projects involving around $40 million. But Huawei got away with the substandard equipment supply and delay in project ... Read more

Third UZ polls AL-backed candidates win most upazillas Like December 29 national parliament elections, Awami League-backed candidates secured 304 seats of Chairman in Thursday’s upazila parishads election outplaying the BNP that got only 82 seats of Chairman, according to unofficial results. According to unofficial results, the AL bagged 304 seats while BNP got 82 and ... Read more

Staff Correspondent Rajshahi division Panchagarh: at sadar, Md Abdul Khaleq of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami was unofficially elected chairman, Belayet Hossain vice-chairman and Kajol Rekha vice-president (reserved for women). At Atwari, Tawhidul Islam of the Awami League was unofficially elected chairman, Kamruzzaman Golap vice-chairman and Lutfa Begum vice-chairman (reserved). At Boda, Md Abdul Aziz of the ... Read more

BNP will go to power in the next election: Nazrul Staff Correspondent BNP Secretary General Khanadker Delwar Hossain on Friday said Awami League wants to establish democracy at gun point. “Awami League is not a well mannered political party as it always wants to establish democracy at gun point. Polling agents can be ousted from ... Read more

Staff Reporter Step is under process to take legal action by the Election Commission (EC) against the election rules violators, including ministers and ruling party MPs, according to a highly placed source. The measures are being taken as allegations were made from different upazilas of influencing the polls and violation of election code of conduct ... Read more

Bishwajit Roy Shakib Al Hasan celebrated his ascent in the rankings with another all-round performance as Bangladesh won the fog-curtailed third and final one-day match against Zimbabwe by six wickets to clinch the series 2-1 at

Staff Correspondent Lawyers, academicians and human rights activists on Friday came down heavily upon the ruling party ministers and MPs for creating influence over the Thursday upazilla polls and demanded of the government to sack those ministers who were involved in acts of influencing election officials to work in favour of their party backed candidates. ... Read more

Staff Correspondent Awami League and BNP will hold their parliamentary party meetings tomorrow before inauguration of the ninth parliament. The newly elected legislature will convene at 3:00pm at Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban. Its first task will be electing a speaker and deputy speaker. In the opening session, it might also elect a successor to President Iajuddin ... Read more

Staff Correspondent Manpower export is likely to fall significantly affecting country’s remittance earning this year due to global economic recession. Talking to The Bangladesh Today, BAIRA President Ghulam Mustafa said “The manpower exporting sector sends abroad around eight lac people every year while the country earns $9 billion per annum. But the ratio of manpower ... Read more

Staff Correspondent At least five people were injured in a fresh clash inside Baitul Mukarram national mosque between the group loyal to the new Khatib and the people opposing his appointment before jumma prayers on Friday. The scuffles broke out when

Picks seasoned, high-powered envoys to ME, Afghanistan and Pakistan Afp, Washington US President Barack Obama on Thursday picked two seasoned and high-powered envoys to the Middle East and Afghanistan and Pakistan, making another swift break with Bush administration policy. In an aggressive push for peace in the world’s most intractable hot spots, Obama named Northern ... Read more