Staff Reporter BNP candidate Barrister Mahbub Uddin Khokan was unofficially declared elected to parliament from Noakhal-1 constituency in the polls held yesterday. The results showed Mahbub with ’sheaf of paddy’ with 1,04,726 votes with grand alliance candidate HM Ibrahim of
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Secondary students affected by text book crisis
200 teams formed for curbing syndicated offenders Staff Correspondent Secondary level students across the country are hard hit as they are not getting text books at the outset of the academic year due to an artificial crisis created by syndicates of textbook publishers and sellers. Expressing grave concern, guardians, teachers and students said “We all ... Read more
BNP prefers Hafizur Rahman as dy speaker
Shahidul Islam Chowdhury The Bangladesh Nationalist Party is likely to nominate AKM Hafizur Rahman, lawmaker-elect for the Bogra 2 constituency, for the position of the deputy speaker of the parliament, according to an aide to the party’s chairperson Khaleda Zia. Khaleda also blasted some party leaders for their proposal to nominate her eldest son, Tarique ... Read more
Reform going on without ‘reformists’
Changes in Awami League Reform going on without ‘reformists’ Sahidul Islam Rana The much-talked reform in the political parties – especially in ruling Awami League and BNP – is going on keeping out the so called ‘reformists’ leaders aside. The heavyweight political leaders of the two arch-rival political parties, who raised their strong voices against ... Read more
Pirojpur road off limits to women
Self-claimed ‘Pir’ imposes the ban; administration yet to act Rafiqul Islam, back from Pirojpur Schoolteacher Jahanara Begum was rushing her sick son to a doctor around noon but she was halted by an elderly man when she was on Mathbaria Bara Masjid Road. She was told the road was off limits to women. As time
Govt plans to ‘depoliticise’ police, says minister
Nazrul Islam The Awami League-led alliance government is considering ways to restore professionalism in the police department which it thinks was politicised by the past government. ‘The government will do everything necessary to infuse professionalism into the police force. Their performances will be taken into consideration, nothing else’, the state minister for home affairs, Tanjim ... Read more
BNP’s move to revamp organisational strength
Talha Bin Habib The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has taken move to revamp its organisational capacities aimed at creating a new leaderships to be picked up from the grass roots levels. To this effect the party would soon hold council meetings of all committees from upper to grass roots levels. Party sources said the high ... Read more
4-party MPs-elect likely to take oath tomorrow
Staff Reporter MPs-elect belonging to the BNP and its allies-Jamaat-e-Islami and Bangladesh Jatiya Party are likely to take oath tomorrow (Wednesday). Outgoing Speaker Barrister Jamir Uddin Sircar made the broad hint while talking to reporters yesterday. “I’ll administer oath to the BNP MPs-elect on Jan 14, as per constitutional guidelines,” he mentioned. The Speaker said ... Read more
No govt interference in ACC activities
Staff Correspondent The Anti-Corruption Commission’s spokesman on Monday hoped the commission would work independently and it had so far faced no interference from the political government. ‘The commission has so far faced nothing from the political government which can influence [its activities],’ the commission’s spokesman Hanif Iqbal, also director general (administration), said at its regular ... Read more
Job seekers return home after being cheated
Staff Correspondent Twenty-six Bangladeshi job seekers returned to Dhaka on Monday night from a six-month ordeal in Singapore after being cheated by manpower agents. They arrived at the Zia International Airport by a Best Air
Death of Bangladeshi, Pakistani sparks protest in Athens
Agence France-Presse . Athens Hundreds of people protested Sunday in central Athens against the Greek authorities’ treatment of immigrants, following the recent deaths of two Asians near a police headquarters. Organisers said a 24-year-old Bangladeshi man died on January 3 when he fell into a ravine after a scuffle near a immigration police station in ... Read more
ACC yet to see Tk 1300 cr bribe allegations against Coco, others
bdnews24.com, Dhaka The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) has yet to receive reported allegations against Arafat Rahman Coco, former BNP alliance ministers and others, involving some Tk 1300 crore in bribes, an ACC statement said on Monday. “The Commission will probe any such allegations once it receives them,” the statement said. ACC Director General Colonel Hanif ... Read more
AG Salahuddin resigns
bdnews24.com, Dhaka Attorney General Salahuddin Ahmed resigned his position on Monday. “I have submitted my resignation in line with the tradition that the attorney general resigns after a new government takes over,” Salahuddin told bdnews24.com after handing a letter to the law ministry at around 3pm. “I ubmitted my resignation letter to the law minister ... Read more
Horrible hostel, hostile to study
Days and woes of Polytechnic girls suffering from acute seat crisis Durdana Ghias Rima wakes up at five in the morning to start her day standing in a queue with 60 other girls in front of the washroom. The room
BRTA move for ‘speed governor seal’ hits a bad patch
Shahnaz Parveen Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) is facing difficulty in implementing the decision to install ‘speed governor seal’ in all automobiles as the mechanism is only available in diesel-run vehicles. A separate mechanism has to be built for vehicles run with gas, octane and petrol engine, which has become a major obstacle in implementing ... Read more
Edn minister spots syndicate behind textbook crisis
Staff Correspondent The education minister, Nurul Islam Nahid, on Sunday visited Banglabazar book market in Dhaka and found a powerful syndicate behind the artificial crisis of secondary textbooks. As soon the minister entered the market in the afternoon, a number of retailers who went to the market
She died to save neighbour from killers
Quazi Amanullah, Khulna She died showing a rare courage of braving bullets and bombs of miscreants to save her neighbour. Parvez Howlader, 30, an activist of Awami League, died on the spot on the night of January 4 at Pabla Palpara under Daulatpur Police Station in Khulna city as miscreants sprayed bullets and threw bomb ... Read more
Past glory of port city to be revived
BSS, Chittagong Ministers, Lawmakers and Leaders of the Mohajote in greater Chittagong region at a public meeting here on Saturday said they would work together for bringing back the past glory of the port city as the country’s economic and industrial hub. In this respect, they sought wholehearted cooperation of the people to free Bangladesh ... Read more
400 students sued
Staff Correspondent More than 400 students of the Government Titumir College were sued for vandalising vehicles at Mohakhali and its surrounding areas in Dhaka on Saturday. The police sub-inspector, Nur-e-Azam, filed the case with Gulshan police against over 400 unidentified students of Titumir College. None was, however, arrested till Sunday evening in connection with the ... Read more
Exports post 13pc rise
Kawsar Khan Exports went up by 13.37 percent in November of the current fiscal year bagging $1.3 billion against the same month last year, and diffused the fear of a long-term effect of global recession in export assumed through the negative export growth in October. In October of fiscal 2008-09, the country’s export earnings dipped ... Read more