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
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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
2nd ‘Made in Bangladesh’ trade show in New York Oct 2-6
Staff Correspondent US-based company First Multipurpose Services and Bangladeshi communication agency Mattra, in association with the Export Promotion Bureau, will organise a trade show ‘Made in Bangladesh 2009’ in New York of the USA in October 2-6. ‘The five-day trade fair will be held at the Penn Plaza Pavilion Exhibition Hall of Manhattan,’ announced Hossain ... Read more
Dhaka stocks open week downbeat
Staff Correspondent Dhaka stocks lost steam on Sunday, the first trading day of the week, due to a selling pressure from investors, depressed by the last week’s bearish trend, market operators said. The general index of Dhaka Stock Exchange lost 33.69 points, or 1.22 per cent, to close at 2726.98, while its blue chips index, ... Read more
Formation of Price Commission to check price hike of essentials vital
NATION BUSINESS REPORT A leading economist has suggested a price commission be set up involving the ministries of commerce, agriculture and finance to bring down prices of essentials within the reach of common people in a short span of time. Welcoming the government’s decision to cut diesel price at its first cabinet meeting, Chairman of ... Read more
Ouster for failure
PM Gets Down to Task Ouster for failure Hasina warns ministers over poor job, graft allegations; tells top bureaucrats not to clutch at excuses M Abul Kalam Azad Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday categorically warned her cabinet colleagues that she will not hesitate to remove them from offices if they fail to fulfil her party’s ... Read more
US, UK seek govt coop in recovering $200m bribe money
Staff Correspondent The United States and the United Kingdom have sought the cooperation of the government, law ministry, attorney general’s office and the Bangladesh Bank to recover $200 million allegedly taken by a dozen Bangladeshis, including former BNP ministers, leaders and businessmen, in bribe from different international companies in exchange for help in obtaining contracts, ... Read more
Fighting rages in Gaza
Israel hints at ending ‘war on Hamas’; 26 more Palestinians killed; Death toll nearly 900; UN aid agency resumes operation Afp, Ap, Gaza City Israel indicated for the first time yesterday that an end was in sight to its war on Hamas, amid some of the heaviest clashes of an offensive that has killed nearly ... Read more
Arafat not a party to Siemens bribes case, claims BNP
Staff correspondent Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Sunday denied there was any case pending in the United States against Arafat Rahman, youngest son of the party chief, Khaleda Zia, for allegedly taking kickbacks from Siemens, a German telecommunications giant. ‘We have seen reports in newspapers naming Koko in the Siemens bribes case. But, according to the ... Read more