Wednesday, November 27, 2024

PM seeks UN support to try war crimes

bdnews24.com, Dhaka Prime minister Sheikh Hasina has sought assistance from the United Nations in holding trial of war criminals, the PM’s office said on Tuesday. “Prosecuting the war criminals has become a national demand and we have included the issue in our election manifesto,” said the prime minister in a meeting with UNDP’s resident representative

Administration cringes at lobbying

Promotion, Posting, Contract Administration cringes at lobbying M Abul Kalam Azad The government officials, including those who were ‘deprived of due promotion and postings’ during the BNP-led coalition government are now lobbying frantically at the secretariat for getting better postings and promotion in the administration. Some retired bureaucrats, who maintained close contacts with Awami League ... Read more

US not your enemy

Obama tells Muslim world Afp, Washington US President Barack Obama Monday told the Muslim world that “Americans are not your enemy” and renewed his pledge to travel to make an address in the capital of a major Muslim nation. Obama noted that he had lived in Indonesia for several years while growing up, and said ... Read more

HC asks Jamaat, EC to explain registration as political party

Staff Correspondent The High Court on Tuesday asked the Election Commission, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami amir Matiur Rahman Nizami and the party’s secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojahid to explain in six weeks why the registration of Jamaat as a political party would not be declared illegal. The High Court bench of Justice ABM Khairul Haque and ... Read more

Ijtema begins Jan 30

Talha Bin Habib The three-daylong annual Biswa Ijtema, the second largest congregation of Muslims, is going to be held from January 30 at the bank of Turag river at Tongi in Gazipur. Tabligh Jammat sources said all preparations for the ijtema are almost near complete. Devotees of local and different countries started coming to the ... Read more

MIU teams also to work in other divisional cities

Asif Showkat The government on Tuesday decided to form Market Intelligence Unit teams for the divisional cities of Chittagong, Rajashahi and Khulna also to monitor the market prices of essential commodities, said official sources. On Monday the commerce ministry issued a circular announcing the revival of the MIU after 16 years, and formed three teams ... Read more

Govt to engage 1,500 BADC dealers to distribute fertiliser

Porimol Palma The government has decided in principle to incorporate around 1,500 seed dealers of Bangladesh Agriculture Development Corporation (BADC) temporarily into the fertiliser distribution system for ensuring uninterrupted supply of the agri-input during the current boro season. “We are examining the procedures because agriculture production should not be hampered by any means, even if ... Read more

Global meltdown downs revenue

14pc less income at import level in December Rejaul Karim Byron Revenue income at import level dropped by about 14 percent in last December due to the impact of the global economic recession creating an apprehension whether the country’s revenue target will be achieved or not in the current fiscal year. Due to the meltdown, ... Read more

Law to compensate coal mine affected people soon

Shamim Jahangir The government is going to prepare a law for compensation of the affected people at coalmine projects. “The Government is thinking to compensate the affected people at coalmine areas. For this, the government is going to prepare a law styled ‘Compensation Act’,” Adviser to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Energy, Power and Mineral ... Read more

Ctg mayor reiterates call for giving transit to neighbours

Staff Correspondent . Chittagong The mayor of Chittagong city corporation, ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury, has made a fresh call for giving transit facility to the neighbouring countries through the Chittagong port for spearheading the nation towards economic prosperity. Mohiuddin made the call while addressing a reception as chief guest in the port city, which was hosted ... Read more

Tarique’s bail in bribery case extended for 5 months

Staff Correspondent The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Tuesday extended bail for five months to Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s chairperson Khaleda Zia’s eldest son, Tarique Rahman, in connection with the Tk 21 crore bribery case. The four-member Appellate Division bench, chaired by Chief Justice MM Ruhul Amin, passed the order after hearing a petition ... Read more

ACC doesn’t have anything against political bigwigs, says Hanif Iqbal

Staff Correspondent The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has nothing to do with the corruption charges against the top brasses of different political parties including incumbent Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia due to the stay order issued by respective courts on cases against them. “Many top leaders of different political parties ... Read more

Most passengers’ sheds in city grabbed by occupants

Staff Correspondent Most passengers’ sheds in the capital have been occupied by a section of hawkers, drug traders, shopkeepers, floating people and counter men of bus services in the absence of steps by the authorities concerned to evict them. As a result, passengers and pedestrians have to suffer a lot mainly during the rainy and ... Read more

Two held, 2250 Yaba tablets seized in city

Staff Correspondent The Rapid Action Battalion arrested two suspected drug traders at a flat in the city’s Shyamoli area early Tuesday and seized 2,250 Yaba tablets from their possession. The battalion said that a RAB-3 team raided the flat on Shyamoli Ring Road upon information about trading of the contraband drugs at about 1:30am and ... Read more

Slum dwellers passing inhuman life in city

“It is not a life” Staff Correspondent The rootless people now living in city’s at least 4200 slums have been passing days without food, pure drinking water, sanitation and treatment. “We don’t have any land in our village. We want to do work. We have lost everything due to various natural disasters like flood, storm ... Read more

Hydraulic horns of 13 vehicles seized

Noise Pollution Hydraulic horns of 13 vehicles seized Staff Correspondent Department of Environment (DOE) yesterday filed cases against 24 vehicles in the city and realised Tk 19,000 in fines for violating sound pollution rules. The DOE team also seized hydraulic horns of 13

Three hill councils without woman members for 20 yrs

Monirul Islam Monu, Bandarban Ignoring constitutional provision to ensure representation and participation of women in every sector, three Hill District councils (HDC) have been running without female members since their inception in 1989. To ensure participation of each indigenous ethnic community, the then government in 1989 introduced three specialized local government organizations — Bandarban Hill ... Read more

BNP man killed in post-polls violence

Our Correspondents . Jessore and Bogra A BNP leader was killed in Jessore while Awami League activists looted leather goods worth Tk 2 lakh from a warehouse of a BNP-backed union parishad member in Bogra as post-polls violence continued on Monday. In Jessore, a BNP leader was killed allegedly by the Awami League activists at ... Read more

Angry locals call Bodi another ‘Hazari’

AL MP annoys all in Ukhia-Teknaf  A Correspondent, Cox’s Bazar With allegations of torture and repression on opposition activists and violation of election rules in the recently concluded upazila election, Awami League lawmaker Abdur Rahman Bodi has made himself controversial in less than a month of his election from Cox’s Bazar-4 (Ukhia-Teknaf). Aggrieved with his ... Read more