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PM cautions Home Ministry on law and order Staff Correspondent High-ups of the Awami League-led Grand Alliance Government are reportedly anxious as a spate of serious crimes – including killing, robbery, mugging and extortion have increased in the capital and elsewhere across the country soon after it assumed office since January 7. The Prime Minster ... Read more

Taib Ahmed Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha on Tuesday extended the deadline by three months and a half more for applications of plots in Uttara and Purbachal projects. ‘The authorities have decided to extend the deadline for form collection and submission up to April 30,’ said Rajuk’s member (estate) Sukumer Chandra Saha. He, however, did not cite ... Read more

Staff Reporter Newly appointed Attorney General Mahbubey Alam yesterday said that he would take necessary steps to bring back the public money laundered by the bigwigs during the immediate-past BNP-led alliance government and keep special vigilance to prevent domestic wealth from being smuggled out. The Attorney Office will assist the Government in bringing back money, ... Read more

Vows to resolve judges’ appointment problems Staff Correspondent After being appointed attorney general yesterday, advocate Mahbubey Alam stressed the need to work out solutions to the problems regarding appointment of judges to the High Court. “A former chief justice had earlier commented that a storm swept the appointments of judges in the highest judiciary and ... Read more

Porimol Palma Several thousand Bangladeshi workers who went to Singapore with valid documents are being forced to return home in small groups as the Singaporean labour supplying companies allegedly cheated them by not arranging jobs for months. Strong syndicates of manpower businesses in both Bangladesh and Singapore have been using sophisticated ways to swindle the ... Read more

Staff Correspondent Finance Minister AMA Muhith yesterday said as per their election pledges the ministers and lawmakers of Awami League (AL) will make public their wealth statements next month. Wrapping up his first meeting with officials of National Board of Revenue (NBR), Muhith told reporters, “Of course it will be announced publicly. I consider this ... Read more

Staff Correspondent Election Commissioner Muhammed Sohul Hussain on Tuesday said that there was no mandatory rule that the inaugural parliamentary session would haveto be held with all its members, including the ladies who will be elected to the seats reserved for women. ‘The parliament will be formed with 345 Members of Parliament but there is ... Read more

Staff Correspondent Petrobangla has continued to allow the US company, Chevron to extract more than 450 million cubic feet of gas per day from the Bibiyana gas field ignoring the warning of its expert committee that the gas reservoir will be damaged if production exceeds 450mmcfd. Sources in Petrobangla said that the officials of the ... Read more

Reuters/Bdnews24.com . Taipei Political freedoms declined around the world for a third straight year in 2008, with Russia and Greece down over political incidents and Iraq and Malaysia up on increased pluralism, a US rights organisation said on Tuesday. Russia, docked for elections that were ‘neither free nor fair,’ and neighbouring Russian-influenced countries that had ... Read more

Suffering of passengers continue Two rounds of fuel price reduction have no impact on fares Staff Correspondent Latest round of reduction of fuel price especially diesel, did not have any impact on diesel run modes of vehicles including passenger buses in the city as well as across the country as bus owners were charging high ... Read more

DU Correspondent The Dhaka University students demonstrated on the campus yesterday in protest against Israeli massacre in Gaza. ‘Anti-Aggression Forum’, a platform of DU students, arranged a photo exhibition featuring Gaza tragedy at the DU ‘battala’ yesterday. The two-day exhibition titled ‘the blood thirsty face of Zionist wolves’ is open for all between 10am and ... Read more

bdnews24.com, Kurigram Changing stance yet again, in an ongoing drama, Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad has said that he wants to be president “once more”. “Sheikh Hasina has pledged that I will be president again, even if it’s only for six months,” said the former president at a JP workers rally in Kurigram on Tuesday. ... Read more

Pirojpur Road Graffiti on woman ban erased Staff Correspondent After The Daily Star ran a report yesterday on a self-proclaimed Pir who put graffiti on a wall by a Pirojpur road, prohibiting movement of women on that road, Mathbaria police removed the writings and are hunting for the Pir. Officer-in-charge of the Mathbaria Police Station ... Read more

Grameenphone Tri-series Tigers must win today Sports Reporter Rubel Hossain will make his international debut when Bangladesh play the last league match of the Grameenphone tri-nation tournament against Sri Lanka at the Mirpur Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur today. The young paceman has been included in the side in place of Nazmul Hossain as the ... Read more

Staff Reporter The new government has further reduced the prices of kerosene and diesel by Tk 2 per litre before the onset of Boro season as a part of its election pledge. The price of diesel and kerosene has been reduced to

Calls in reservists; 19 more Palestinians killed as Egyptian truce talks plod on Ap, Afp, Gaza City Israeli warplanes pounded the homes of Hamas leaders and ground troops edged closer to the Gaza Strip’s densely-populated urban centre yesterday, as Israel stepped up the pressure ahead of deciding whether to

Staff Reporter BNP candidate Barrister Mahbub Uddin Khokan was unofficially declared elected to parliament from Noakhal-1 constituency in the polls held yesterday. The results showed Mahbub with ’sheaf of paddy’ with 1,04,726 votes with grand alliance candidate HM Ibrahim of

200 teams formed for curbing syndicated offenders Staff Correspondent Secondary level students across the country are hard hit as they are not getting text books at the outset of the academic year due to an artificial crisis created by syndicates of textbook publishers and sellers. Expressing grave concern, guardians, teachers and students said “We all ... Read more

Shahidul Islam Chowdhury The Bangladesh Nationalist Party is likely to nominate AKM Hafizur Rahman, lawmaker-elect for the Bogra 2 constituency, for the position of the deputy speaker of the parliament, according to an aide to the party’s chairperson Khaleda Zia. Khaleda also blasted some party leaders for their proposal to nominate her eldest son, Tarique ... Read more

Changes in Awami League Reform going on without ‘reformists’ Sahidul Islam Rana The much-talked reform in the political parties – especially in ruling Awami League and BNP – is going on keeping out the so called ‘reformists’ leaders aside. The heavyweight political leaders of the two arch-rival political parties, who raised their strong voices against ... Read more