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UNB, Dhaka Apparently in a subtle deviation from the country’s past foreign policy on the sensitive issue of giving transit to India, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr Hasan Mahmud Wednesday said transit is not a political but an economic issue that should be considered from the perspective of mutual benefit. “Some quarters want to ... Read more

Staff Reporter Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr. Dipu Moni yesterday said that the grand alliance Government would show “zero tolerance” to extra-judicial killing or torture and death in custody. “We do not condone any such incident and will bring the responsible official to justice,” the Minister made the comment while replying to a question at ... Read more

UNB, Dhaka Industries Minister Dilip Barua on Wednesday invited entrep-reneurs from both home and abroad as well as the expatriate Bangladeshis to invest in the country to help create massive employment opportunities. “The government will provide necessary support to facilitate investment,” he said, calling upon investors to tap the advantage of an investment-friendly environment prevailing ... Read more

bdnews24.com, Dhaka The government will spend Tk 340 crore to strengthen the state-owned petroleum exploration company BAPEX and ensure supply to the gas-starved port city of Chittagong. “We all know we are facing a gas supply crisis. The project is primarily meant to address the crisis,” the planning minister said on Tuesday after an ECNEC ... Read more

United News of Bangladesh . Munshiganj Two people, including a BNP leader, were killed and 15 others injured in a fierce clash between the activists of ruling Awami League and opposition BNP at Jazira village under Munshiganj sadar upazila Wednesday. The police said the clash ensued at about 5:00am as AL activists of Gazi group ... Read more

Our Correspondent, Thakurgaon Villagers beat a leopard to death at Bangaon village under Ranishankoil upazila in Thakurgaon yesterday afternoon. Police and local people said the animal, coming out of its hiding from a wheat field, suddenly attacked and injured five people at

Staff Correspondent A father drowned his two children in a pond at Purbo Mudaka village in Tongi on Tuesday night. Police arrested Abdul Huq, 32, a farmer, who admitted to killing his two-year-old son Ratul and four-year-old daughter Chhobi. Hearing the news, their mother Fahima Begum went unconscious. The villagers said Abdul Huq drowned his ... Read more

RTI among 44 picked to be made law; special JS body to review the rest Shakhawat Liton The special committee of the parliament yesterday okayed for ratification only 44 of the 122 ordinances promulgated just before and during the immediate past caretaker government’s regime. The committee will keep scrutinising the rest of the ordinances to ... Read more

Aminul Islam The average electricity generation during evening peak hours has decreased by around 200MW in the last one month resulting in increase in power outages because of ‘slack monitoring’ by the Power Division after the Awami League-led alliance formed the government, sources in the division said. Although the present government announced it would give ... Read more

Grassroots leaders gathered in headquarters for soul-searching UNB, Dhaka BNP on Tuesday kick-started a month-long reorganizing process of the former ruling party that went haywire after the 1/11 onslaught, gathering upazila, thana and pourshava-level leaders in the headquarters for a soul-searching. The bottom-up recasting process began through interviewing presidents, general secretaries and organizing secretaries or ... Read more

Govt sits idle as Shankharibazar houses get more vulnerable Pinaki Roy Monday night’s collapse of roof plaster at Shankharibazar is a chilling reminder that run-down buildings in this part of the city could cost lives any time and the government cannot afford delays in dealing with the looming

Staff correspondent Lawmakers of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led opposition continued to remain absent in the parliamentary sessions for the fourth day because there has been no solution to the stalemate on the seating arrangement till Tuesday. They could not decide on Tuesday whether to return to parliament for the current session as the leader of ... Read more

Staff Reporter Commerce Minister Faruq Khan yesterday said that the government was actively considering providing transit to neighbouring India and the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) is in the final stage of processing. “Transit to India is under active consideration of the government. If we find it benefiting the people of the country, we ... Read more

Staff Reporter Commerce Minister Lt Col (retd) Faruk Khan yesterday said the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina would visit Saudi Arabia shortly to sign an agreement aiming to enhance trade and investment between the two countries. Faruk Khan disclosed this while talking to the waiting reporters after a bilateral meeting with a Saudi business delegation at ... Read more

Grassroots also tell BNP to drop controversial leaders Rakib Hasnet Suman Grassroots level leaders of BNP yesterday proposed to party high-ups that it should not continue ties with Jamaat-e-Islami considering the new generation’s sentiment, and drop all controversial leaders from party committees at all levels. They also suggested that the party leadership reconstitute the committees ... Read more

UNB, Dhaka The publication of upazila election results is getting delayed due to omissions and commissions in the result sheets sent by returning officers, CEC Dr ATM Shamsul Huda said on Tuesday. “After scrutiny, it was found that the results announced by the returning officers at night had no similarity with the ones announced later ... Read more