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Only 12 out of the 20 former advisers of the two caretaker governments in 1996 and 2001 are available at present. As two persons including Barrister Syed Ishtiyak Ahmed and Syed Monjur Elahi acted as the advisers to both the caretaker governments in 1996 and 2001, in total 18 persons served as the advisers in these ... Read more

The US ambassador in Dhaka, Dan W Mozena, on Monday said that proposals over election-time government made by prime minister Sheikh Hasina and leader of the opposition Khaleda Zia opened the door for a constructive dialogue. He made the remarks after meeting with Khaleda Zia, also the Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson, at her Gulshan

Gulshan Highrise No respect for HC stay? North city corporation, developer go ahead flouting rules Brazenly defying a High Court stay order, Dhaka North City Corporation and a real-estate developer are going ahead with the construction of a highrise near Gulshan-2 without environment or height clearances. Work on the building’s interior is on and a ... Read more

BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s chief security officer Col (Rtd) Abdul Mazid along with three others were assaulted by police in front of party central office at Naya Paltan when Khaleda Zia went there to visit party’s ailing joint secretary general Rizvi Ahmed at around 11 pm on Monday. During this time police also picked up ... Read more

The British high commissioner in Dhaka, Robert W Gibson, on Monday welcomed the positive aspects of the BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s speech, and hoped that all sides would approach the dialogue in a spirit of compromise and trust. ‘We hope that the suggestions made in her (Khaleda) speech will be considered by the government and that ... Read more

Visiting Bangladesh 7 countries issue alert for their citizens The governments of at least seven developed countries have asked their citizens not to visit Bangladesh due to political instability. Developed countries including USA, UK, Germany, France, Japan, Canada and Australia have issued notice on the website of their respective foreign ministries in this regard. Bangladesh Tourism Board ... Read more

Bangladesh promises priority for sanitation services to hardcore poor The fifth South Asian Conference on Sanitation begins here on Tuesday with an aim to promote sanitation and hygiene practices in the region and thereby ‘achieve poverty eradication and acceptable standards of public health.’ In Bangladesh, almost half of the population still remain outside the improved sanitation, ... Read more

China will provide 600 million RMB as development assistance for Bangladesh next year, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has said, reports UNB. The offer came during a bilateral meting between Wang Yi and visiting Foreign Minister Dr Dipu Moni in Beijing Sunday, said a Foreign Ministry release

The new wage structure for the garment industry workers will be announced on October 27. Justice AK Roy, Chairman of the Wage Board for RMG workers told this to reporters on Monday after holding its sixth meeting at the Naya Paltan office “The board earlier decided that the

She addresses meeting of professionals BNP chairperson and leader of the opposition, Khaleda Zia, on Sunday reiterated her commitment of not participating in any election under the Awami League. She also made a strong commitment of staying on the streets, along with the agitating people, even if all other political leaders leave her. “Stay beside me ... Read more

Exports of the country’s jute sector have faced severe setbacks in recent weeks as export earnings from the sector have declined by more than 52 per cent in the first quarter of the current fiscal (2013-14). Jute exports, according to sources, have declined considerably because of a dull international market and the steep fall of India’s ... Read more

The trial court will pronounce the verdict on October 30 in the country’s largest ever case of killings in connection with the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) mutiny that occurred at the Bangladesh Rifles Headquarters at Pilkhana in the city on February 25 and 26, 2009. After the arguments were completed

AL-JP Meet Polls likely by year end The government is planning to have the next parliamentary election in late December or early January fearing further delays could create political complications. The Election Commission will announce the polls schedule by the second week of November. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina unveiled the plan

The movement Jahangirnagar University teachers have carried out against vice-chancellors in two years has almost paralysed the campus creating fears among students for a prolonged academic life. There has been several rounds of movement against vice-chancellors on the campus since December 2011. Groups of teachers rallying against

News Analysis Hazaribagh Tanneries Forex earning at what cost?  After decades of persuasion, tanners, mostly based in Hazaribagh area of the city, have finally agreed to speed up relocating their industries from Dhaka to Savar by December next year. The tanners, who exported leather goods and leather worth nearly US 1 billion dollars in the ... Read more

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s resolve and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s intervention finally made it possible for a pro-BNP convention to take place in the capital despite a police ban on political gatherings. Tension ran high throughout yesterday morning over the fate of the convention of Bangladesh Sammilito Peshajibi Parishad, a platform

The first bone marrow transplantation centre in the country was opened on Sunday at Dhaka Medical College Hospital to provide better cancer treatment and extend research on cancer. The health minister, AFM Ruhal Haque, inaugurated the centre at the new extension building of the hospital in the morning. He called all related with the

Reckless driving claimed another life as a college girl was killed when a bus knocked her down and ran over her in the capital’s Kamalapur area on Sunday morning. The deceased Marjana Jahan Munmun, 17, was a higher secondary student at Central Women’s

The United Kingdom and the United States have welcomed the indications of willingness by the ruling party and the opposition to have a dialogue for resolving the impasse over the election period government. “We welcome the announcement of the Honourable Prime Minister and other indications from political leaders over the last few days that the ... Read more

BNP chairperson and leader of the opposition Khaleda Zia will unveil her party’s position on Premier Sheikh Hasina’s offer to form all-party election-time interim government at a press conference scheduled for Monday afternoon. Khaleda Zia, also chief of the 18-party alliance, may put forward an alternative proposal over the poll-time administration at