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
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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
Govt-Opposition talks inconclusive: Speaker opts for new seat plan
Staff Reporter Speaker Abdul Hamid has decided to make a new sitting arrangement for the Members in the House after his futile effort to resolve the row over the seating plan made by former speaker Muhammad Jamiruddin Sircar. The Speaker held a meeting with treasury and opposition benches over the rearrangement of the House’s seating ... 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