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Necessary documents, cash looted bdnews24.com, Dhaka A group of unknown attackers broke into Railway Bhaban in Dhaka on Sunday night, ransacking nearly 60 rooms, said officials. A four-member probe committee has been formed headed by railway engineering department chief Habib Ahmed to investigate the

Shahidul Islam Chowdhury and Partha Pratim Bhattacharjee The women leaders of the Awami League (AL), Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), Jatiya Party and their women organisations are lobbying hectically to win respective party nominations for 45 seats reserved for women in the ninth parliament. Many hopefuls are showing up in all party programmes to draw the ... Read more

Pays tribute to Martin Luther King Afp, Ap, Washington Barack Obama’s team vowed to lose no time remaking the nation and the world as a blazing constellation of stars kicked off a three-day inauguration party for America’s first black president Sunday. Once he takes office today, top aides said, Obama will immediately set in train ... Read more

Staff Reporter The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) yesterday observed the 73rd birth anniversary of party founder Shaheed president Ziaur Rahman with due solemnity and honour across the country. Party Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia along with central leaders, activists and supporters of BNP visited the grave of

Staff Reporter Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury yesterday warned that the government would not tolerate artificial crisis of fertiliser and diesel during ongoing Boro season. She was speaking it a dialogue on Boro Production: Immediate Tasks for the Newly Elected Government as a chief guest at CIRDAP auditorium. The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) organised the ... Read more

Upazila polls candidacy AL facing rival contestants in 116 upazilas 65 teams on field to settle intra-party feuds Sahidul Islam Rana With only two days left of the forthcoming Upazila Parishad election race, the Awami League failed to settle the factional rivalry inside the party. Apprehending a debacle in the polls slated for January 22, ... Read more

Staff Correspondent The anti-Corruption Commission has detected misappropriation of Tk 52.55 crore by officials and employees of the Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited revenue offices. The money was embezzled by issuing fake bills and vouchers, the ACC said on Monday. The commission’s director general Hanif Iqbal said at a news-briefing that it would sue the officials ... Read more

Staff Correspondent The leaders and workers of BNP and its associate organizations on Monday observed 73rd birth anniversary of late President Ziaur Rahman, founder of the party, in a befitting manner throughout the country. After placing floral wreath and offering prayer at Zia’s grave, Khandaker Delwar Hossain and Jamiruddin Sircar told journalists separately that BNP ... Read more

Nazrul Islam The election of the deputy speaker from the opposition, as offered by the ruling Awami League, is unlikely in the first sitting of the ninth parliament, going into its first session on January 25. ‘There might be two posts of deputy speakers in the parliament and making the provision to accommodate one from ... Read more

Staff Correspondent Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) will work with foreign countries to detect and recover the money siphoned off and assets made abroad illegally. “We are determined to detect the illegal money stored abroad and assets made outside the country…We will work with foreign countries and make necessary arrangements both bilaterally and multilaterally to detect and ... Read more

Senior lawyers term attorney general’s directive ‘contemptuous’ Star Report Attorney General (AG) Mahbubey Alam yesterday asked all attorneys recruited by the immediate past caretaker government to submit their resignation letters to him by Tuesday, sources at the AG office told The Daily Star. The top law officer of the state told the attorneys at a ... Read more

Five to six houses behind the crisis, plan to print more copies shelved Siddiqur Rahman Khan Short supply and higher prices of textbooks continue to hamper secondary education across the country, according to the findings of an official investigation. Against the backdrop of acute supply shortage, the education ministry on January 11 decided to print ... Read more

Second draft guideline published BTRC to award licences for IP telephony service operators soon Staff Correspondent The telecom regulatory body will award licences to private operators for providing Internet Pro-tocol (IP) telephony services in the country very soon to help Internet users make domestic and overseas calls at a cheaper cost, officials said. To this ... Read more

Design by next year Staff Correspondent The government in the first meeting of the cabinet committee on purchase yesterday appointed a consultant for construction of the Padma Bridge in line with the ruling Awami League’s one of the major election pledges. New Zealand-based Maunsell AECOM Ltd has been appointed as consultant for preparing design of ... Read more

Staff Correspondent An accumulation of clouds, sailing from Eastern ghat in Orissa, has spoilt the winter at its peak making the weather a bit warmer, met office sources said. The presence of clouds and associated moisture-laden air have not only pushed up the mercury but also contributed to recent spell of fog clouding the visibility, ... Read more

UNB, Dhaka The High Court on Monday issued rule upon a woman journalist of a weekly newspaper to explain why punitive action should not be taken against her for denying disclosing the source of news as asked in a contempt of court case. Issuing the rule, a division bench comprising Justice ABM Khairul Haque and ... Read more

Staff Correspondent The newly elected government yesterday transferred 10 secretaries and five joint secretaries in a major reshuffle in the administration. Fisheries and Livestock Secretary Syed Ataur Rahman has been transferred to the Ministry of Education, according to an official announcement. Privatisation Commission member ABM Abdul Huq Chowdhury has been made secretary of textile and ... Read more

Staff Correspondent Shaheed Asad Day will be observed today, commemorating his martyrdom this day in 1969 during the mass uprising against the Pakistani rulers that led the nation to independence. On this day 40 years ago, Asaduzzaman was killed in police firing in front of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital while leading a protest demonstration. ... Read more

Staff Correspondent The Awami League-led government has expressed unwillingness to kick-start the ailing Trading Corporation of Bangladesh, a public sector arm for market intervention, in a marked shift from its pre-polls pledge for a ‘multi-pronged approach to control prices and monitor the market’. Making public the government’s position on the corporation, the commerce minister, Faruk ... Read more

Shahiduzzaman The expert committee formed to examine the ordinances made in the past two years on Sunday finalised its report recommending that 30 ordinances should be approved, 53 should be scrapped and 39 others should be left for the parliament to decide. ‘The expert committee has finalised its report, which will be placed in the ... Read more