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Ershadul Huq No more nervous parents write to their children staying far a way from them in cities or towns asking them to come home at least for a few days to be with them. And children are also not doing so to remove the unrest of minds of their parents. The worried wives do ... Read more

Staff Reporter Awami League (AL) Joint Secretary and spokeman Syed Ashraful Islam yesterday warned all including his party men to refrain from indulging in violence and attacking their political opponents. Addressing a press conference at the party;s Dhanmondi office, Ashraful said his party does not believe in the politics of revenge.” We have already sent ... Read more

Unb, Dhaka Awami League President Sheikh Hasina has condemned the ongoing Israeli attacks on Gaza and expressed her profound shock at the deaths of innocent civilians in the attacks. Hasina expressed her condemnation when the envoys of seven Arab countries–Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Morocco, Kuwait, Libya and Qatar–called on her at Sudha Sadan yesterday. Briefing ... Read more

Staff Correspondent Four fugitive convicts in the Awami League leader, Ahsanullah Master, murder case were arrested in Kolkata of West Bengal state, a senior official of CID said in Dhaka. A special team of Kolkata CID arrested the four fugitives — Nazrul Islam Dipu alias Nurul Islam Dipu, Shahadat Hossain, Obaidul Islam Tipu and Zakir ... Read more

Begunbari-Hatirjheel Work slows down on land acquisition hitch Helemul Alam The road-embankment work of Begunbari-Hatirjheel development project is being delayed as the process of acquiring land has not been completed yet. Sources said the work of only 2.70 kms of the road-embankment has so far been completed out of about 11 km because of delay ... Read more

Staff Correspondent The new government should start the process of setting up a war crimes tribunal in the very first session of the national parliament and seek help from the United Nations, said War Crimes Facts Findings Committee Bangladesh. Addressing a press conference yesterday at it office, the committee presented terms of reference for trial ... Read more

Staff Correspondent Unidentified gunmen shot dead a Swechchhasebak Dal leader at Bijoynagar in the capital while another gang of miscreants stabbed a Jubo League activist to death in Bogra yesterday. The deceased, Nazrul Islam, 35, president of Swechchhasebak Dal’s ward-56 unit, was also the general secretary of Bijoynagar Bahumukhi Babosayee Samobay Samiti. Police and family ... Read more

Demands punishment to war criminals Staff Correspondent Congratulating Sheikh Hasina for AL-led grand alliance’s landslide victory under her leadership in the 9th parliamentary election, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) President Colonel (retd) Oli Ahmed called upon the coming Premier not to allow in the cabinet those persons who were involved in corruption earlier. “I am calling ... Read more

Staff Correspondent Bangladesh Telecommu-nication Regulatory Commi-ssion (BTRC) with the help of law enforces yesterday seized 2,000 illegal SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) cards of mobile phones at a stall in Dhaka International Trade Fair. In a statement the BTRC said an unlicensed call centre named “Awal Call Centre” distributed leaflets among visitors to sell World SIM, ... Read more

JP accepts Zillur’s nomination for presidency, Hasina visits him with flower, sweets; cabinet to be formed tomorrow Hasan Jahid Tusher The Awami League-led alliance is likely to form the new cabinet tomorrow with representatives of its major components as the AL and key ally Jatiya Party (JP) overcame the differences of opinion on

Staff correspondent The Bangladesh Nationalist Party has called a meeting of its MPs-elect for January 7 to decide when they will take oath, according to party leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury. The party will play a constructive role in parliament, he said. ‘The party has called a meeting of its MPs-elect in Dhaka for January 7,’ ... Read more

Staff Reporter The Election Commission has been taking full preparation for holding the upazila polls on January 22 and would start sending the election materials from January 12. The Commission, however, will not deploy army during the upazila polls. “Additional police and BDR will be deployed during the upazila elections, not army,” Election Commissioner Brig ... Read more

Shakhawat Liton The Election Commission (EC) plans to hold the long over due Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) polls in March this year, launching a series of local government elections across the country. Following the DCC polls, the EC plans to hold elections to over 300 municipalities, and then the long over due polls to over ... Read more

Mustafizur Rahman The military-controlled interim government is going to end its two-year tenure with most of the initiatives it undertook initially to reform civil bureaucracy fading away gradually. After assuming office in January 2007, the government of Fakhruddin Ahmed embarked on an ambitious plan to infuse ‘dynamism, accountability and transparency into the administration’, but towards ... Read more

CA holds farewell meeting; thanks people, govt staff M Abul Kalam Azad Advisers to the caretaker government are wrapping up their pending official tasks as the country’s administrative hub, Bangladesh Secretariat, prepares to receive new ministers after over two year’s wait. Bureaucrats yesterday bade farewell to a number of advisers who took charges of different ... Read more

10 killed, 270 injured so far Staff Correspondent Despite deployment of a huge number of law enforcers, post-polls violence continued in different parts of the country on Sunday, raising the death toll to 10 and the number of injured people to 270. An elderly woman, Subhashini Das, who was injured in an incident of post-poll ... Read more

bdnews24.com, New Delhi India hopes the new government in Bangladesh will crack down not only on terrorist groups but also ensure that insurgent groups from northeast India do not find shelter in the country, the Indian prime minister has said. “We hope the new Bangladesh government will take appropriate steps to ensure that Bangladeshi soil ... Read more

Azad Majumder. Chittagong Vice-captain Mashrafee bin Murtaza scored a defiant half-century to help Bangladesh avoid the follow-on, but that was only just as the hosts were all out for 208 runs handing Sri Lanka a 176-run first innings lead on Sunday. The visitors stretched their lead to 189 after ending the second day with 13-0 ... Read more

‘Grand’ alliance lawmakers take oath; AL chief picked as parliamentary party leader, she warns MPs against bad report; Zillur AL’s choice for presidency Shakhawat Liton and Hasan Jahid Tusher Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina, who was unanimously elected majority party leader

Staff correspondent The MPs-elect of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led alliance will not take oath today, according to the alliance sources. The party chairperson Khaleda Zia made the decision after a meeting with her party’s two senior MPs-elect— MK Anwar and Salauddin Quader Chowdhury— at her Dhaka Cantonment residence Saturday night. ‘The BNP MPs will not ... Read more