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The Election Commission on Monday registered the controversial Bangladesh Nationalist Front as a political party with ‘television’ as its election symbol. Former minister Nazmul Huda breaking away from the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party had floated the party. He had, however, already

Rokia Afzal Rahman has been re-elected president of Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI), Dhaka, for 2014. The election took place at the first meeting of the chamber’s new committee yesterday, the leading trade body said in a statement. Chair of Arlinks Ltd, Rokia has investments in RR Cold Storage Ltd, Aris Holdings Ltd, ... Read more

Qatar’s construction sector is rife with abuse, Amnesty International (AI) has said in a report published as work begins on Fifa World Cup 2022 stadiums, reports BBC. Amnesty says migrant workers are often subjected to non-payment of wages, dangerous working conditions and squalid accommodation. The rights group

Heath minister AFM Ruhal Haque told parliament on Monday that the maternal mortality rate reduced by 40 per cent in last nine years. Quoting the Bangladesh Maternal Mortality and Health Care Survey 2010, he said that maternal mortality came down to 194 in 2010 from 322 per one lakh in 2001. Replying to a question ... Read more

Customs officials seized at least 15 kilograms of gold from an incoming flight Monday morning and arrested one in connection with gold smuggling. The arrested was identified as Khairul Bashar. The customs officials recovered 128 gold bars from his possession. Assistant commissioner of Chittagong customs Moshiur Rahman said that a Biman flight BG-048 from Dubai ... Read more

Amu, Tofail of AL, Menon of WP, Rawshan Ershad, Anisul Islam Mahmud of JP likely to be inducted Members of the cabinet in the much-hyped poll-time government to oversee the next general election take oath at 3pm on Monday. “Only the new ministers will take oath on Monday afternoon at Bangabhaban as part of the ... Read more

Mamun gets 7yrs jail term for money laundering A Dhaka court on Sunday acquitted BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman, son of opposition leader Khaleda Zia, and sentenced his business partner, Giasuddin Al Mamun, to seven years of imprisonment in a high-profile money laundering case. The court found Mamun guilty of siphoning

Visiting US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha Desai Biswal met Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina, opposition leader Khaleda Zia, Nobel laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus and BGMEA leaders, besides members of the business community and civil society on Sunday. Biswal told Hasina that the US government wants to see credible

Several senior leaders of the BNP-led 18-party alliance have rejected the government move to form a poll-time interim cabinet, saying that it’s nothing but a mockery. “The government move to form this so-called poll-time government is a mockery with the people,” BNP Acting Secretary General Mirza

The High Court on Sunday stayed the trial court order that remanded five senior BNP leaders in police custody for eight days. The trial court on Thursday put three BNP lawmakers– Moudud Ahmed (73), MK Anwar (81) and Rafiqul Islam Miah (71)– and BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s adviser Abdul Awal Mintoo (65) and her special ... Read more

Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad on Sunday met Hefazat-e-Islami chief Shah Ahmad Shafi and gave him an assurance that the JP, if voted to power, would help implement all demands of the 13-point charter of demands of the madrassah-based group. In another development, JP presidium member

Red carpet was rolled out as Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak and his spouse Rosmah Mansor arrived here this evening on a three-day official visit to Bangladesh. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina received them at the VVIP Terminal of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 8.05 pm. Two tiny tots presented bouquets

Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus has discussed Bangladesh’s ongoing political unrest and shared his concern about Grameen Bank with Nisha Desai Biswal, US assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asian affairs. “Naturally, the political issue came up. But there was no discussion on dialogue,” Yunus told reporters after a meeting with the visiting

At least 50 people, including 10 police men, were injured on Sunday as garment workers demonstrated and clashed with law enforcers at Jamgarah, Zirabo, Narasinghapur, of Ashulia and Konabari of Gazipur demanding early implementation of new monthly wages at Tk 5,300. Fearing vandalism, owners suspended production for Sunday at more than 25 factories

The government is scheduled to take a unanimous decision to install the country’s first floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal at Maheshkhali Island in the Bay of Bengal under the Speedy Supply of Power and Energy (Special Provisions) (Amendment) Act, 2012. To ensure that the idea materialises, policymakers of the energy sector will sit down today at

The cabinet on Sunday approved a draft policy recognising those belonging to the age group of 60 years and above as elderly people. The social welfare ministry placed the draft of the national elderly people policy 2013 at the weekly cabinet meeting with the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, presiding over at the secretariat. ‘The policy would help ensure

Illegal workers in Saudi Arabia can legalise their visa status The illegal expatriate workers, who were registered in the last general amnesty in Saudi Arabia, would be able to legalise their visa status or return home till December 3, said Nazmul Islam, consul general of Bangladesh Consulate in Jeddah, yesterday. Since the expiry of the ... Read more

The police recovered nine pieces of body parts of a youth on Sunday evening from Murapara Motherghat area under Rupganj upazila in Narayanganj. The deceased was a youth aged about,30 years, the police said. The beheaded body was dumped in a sack

Dhaka and Washington are expected to sign the Trade and Investment Cooperation Forum Agreement (Ticfa) on November 25. A Bangladesh government delegation comprised of officials of foreign affairs and commerce ministries will leave for Washington on November 22 to ink the much-awaited trade deal, foreign ministry sources said yesterday.

As the country’s bickering political parties seem nowhere close to any understanding over the polls-time government, a sub-committee of the House of Representatives of the US Congress is set to organise a hearing on the political situation in Bangladesh on Wednesday. The sub-committee on Asia and the Pacific