Thursday, November 14, 2024

Black money legalising is against polls pledge: TIB

The government’s proposal to allow legalise black money is against its election pledge, said the Transparency International Bangladesh in a post-budget reaction on Friday. In a press release, TIB’s executive director Iftekharuzzaman said it was incompatible with good governance and prevention of corruption, the campaign promises of the ruling party. In an unprecedented measure, finance ... Read more

Plan to appoint 13 judges to SC

The government will appoint at least three judges to the Appellate Division and 10 judges to the High Court (HC) Division of the Supreme Court (SC) by June this year as a number of judges of both the divisions will retire this year and next year. The present government appointed 11 judges to the HC ... Read more

Left parties sceptical of budget implementation

Critical of money whitening provision Some left-leaning political parties and organisations on Friday termed the proposed budget for the 2009–2010 financial year ambitious and doubted if whether it could be implemented. They criticized the finance minister, AMA Muhith, for allowing black money to be whitened, saying criminals, looters and plunderers of national resources have been ... Read more

Hill women demand white paper on repression in CHT

Kalpana Chakma abduction anniv observed A section of ethnic minority women staged demonstrations in Rangamati Friday asking the government to publish a white paper on repression carried out in its different forms allegedly by the security forces on the ethnic minority groups. They made the demand along with a few others at a rally organised ... Read more

BMDA implements various need-based development projects

The Barind Multipurpose Development Authorities (BMDA) have been implementing various need-based projects to improve the socio-economic conditions and protect the environment in the vast Barind area in northern Bangladesh. Officials said here on Friday that implementation of some projects during the last nearly two decades came out with desired crop production side by side with ... Read more

1065 posts of teachers in govt primary schools lying vacant in Barisal division

Posts of 1065 teachers of government primary schools have been lying vacant in Barisal division for long, hampering primary education of the region. Barisal divisional education office sources said there are 5,597, including 3,479 government and 2,118 non-government primary schools in the division. Posts of 241 out of 3,479 headmasters and 824 out of 14,256 ... Read more

Realistic decision to be taken to reform national university

The National University will take realistic decision to reform the university through establishment of good administration in a bid to brighten the image of the university and increase the quality of education in college level. University Grants Commission Chairman Prof. Nazrul Islam said this while speaking at a seminar on ‘Bangladesh’s environment and foreign aggressive ... Read more