Bdnews24.com . Chandpur The Chandpur police on Friday retrieved 300 abandoned ballot counterfoils from a ditch close to Chandpur Akkas Ali Government Primary School. Chandpur Sadar model police sub-inspector Monir Ahmed told bdnews24.com Jihad, a seventh-grade student of the primary school went to the school ground for playing cricket with his friends in the morning. ... Read more
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Cost of living goes up by 9.4pc in 2008: CAB
Kazi Azizul Islam The cost of living in the past year went up by 9.42 per cent with the increase in prices of essential commodities by 12.54 per cent, said a release of the Consumers’ Association of Bangladesh on Thursday. While conducting a study, the CAB took into consideration the annual cost of living basing ... Read more
People want development of Barisal Div under newly elected government
Our Correspondent The people of Barisal Division want development of Barisal Div under newly elected government and they made such expression while observing the 16th founding anniversary of the division on January 1. The people hope that the regional development programs in the region will be rightly taken by the newly elected government as soon ... Read more
Banks make record operating profit despite global recession
NATION BUSINESS REPORT In spite of the collapse of many banks in the United States and Europe amid global financial meltdown, the country’s private commercial banks (PCBs) attained higher operating profit in 2008. The initial figures of operating profit of at least 10 PCBs indicated that they have earned profits in 2008 following higher import ... Read more
RMG breezes past 2008
Looking Back 2008 RMG breezes past 2008 Refayet Ullah Mirdha Bangladesh’s ready-made garment (RMG) business was well in 2008, although some national and international anti-business issues marked the year as a turbulent one. However, on the onset of the year, the country was faced with a severe competition in the global RMG
Lawmakers-elect likely to take oath Sunday
Nazrul Islam The outgoing Jatiya Sangsad speaker Jamiruddin Sircar is expected to administer oath to the lawmakers-elect to the ninth parliament on Sunday. ‘I wish to administer oath to the lawmakers-elect to the parliament on Sunday, provided the official gazette on the election results are available by Saturday,’ Jamiruddin told reporters in his office on ... Read more
CEC urges all to respect people’s verdict
He leaves Khaleda’s allegations of stage-managed polls for people to judge, UZ polls as per schedule Staff Correspondent Terming Monday’s elections free, fair and credible, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) ATM Shamsul Huda on Thursday called on all to show respect to people’s verdict. He said the EC is satisfied with holding such an election that ... Read more
Young MPs-elect to rule AL cabinet
Prominent old guards may be sidelined in charter for change Hasan Jahid Tusher Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina may pick younger, educated and deft leaders in the party as cabinet colleagues to implement her party’s electoral pledges at the earliest. Party sources said the AL chief might opt for a small cabinet comprised of ... Read more
Fate of 3 MPs-elect hangs in the balance
Shakhawat Liton The Supreme Court’s (SC) verdict and Bangladesh Bank’s (BB) probe report will decide the fate of three MPs-elect as two of them contested Monday’s national election following an interim SC order and the other is an alleged loan defaulter. The lawmakers-elect might lose membership of parliament if the court verdict and probe report ... Read more
ACC’s chief prosecutor Mukul quits
Staff Correspondent The Anti-Corruption Commission’s (ACC) Chief Special Public Prosecutor (CSPP) ABM Sharfuddin Khan Mukul yesterday resigned on “personal” grounds. Mukul told The Daily Star that he submitted his resignation letter to the ACC chairman at noon. “I have moved the corruption cases on behalf of the Anti-corruption Commission against Awami League President Sheikh Hasina, ... Read more
Graft cases must be disposed of
Staff Correspondent Shujan opposes dropping of charges against MPs-elect The authorities must complete the trial of the cases the new members of parliament are facing, instead of withdrawing the charges, to end the practice of impunity, Shushashoner Jannoy Nagorik (Shujan) said yesterday. “The cases must be settled in the court. We do not want them ... Read more
Agro-credit disbursement up 27.22 pc in Jul-Nov
Staff Correspondent Agricultural credit disbursement recorded a robust growth of 27.22 per cent in the first five months of the current fiscal as the central bank took some measures including relaxation of rules and regulations of loan payment. Eight state-owned banks and financial institutions along with the private commercial banks (PCBs) disbursed Tk 33.77 billion ... Read more
100 BNP men injured in post-poll violence
Staff Reporter At least 100 people, the activists and supporters of BNP, were injured in post-election violence in seven districts yesterday. Reports from different districts said over 20 people were injured in Patuakhali while 10 in Khulna, 12 in Kishoreganj, 14 in Satkhira, 15 in Thakurgaon, 10 in Natore and one at Jagangirnagar University. Meanwhile, ... Read more
UN help for trial of war criminals assured
Staff Reporter Ian Martin, an special envoy of the United Nations’ (UN) Secretary General, yesterday assured Awami League (AL) President and coming Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for providing all possible support for bringing war criminals under trial. Martin pledged this during a meeting with Sheikh Hasina at the Sudha Sadan residence at Dhanmondi. Talking to ... Read more
33 parties together get 3.84pc of votes cast
Khadimul Islam None of thirty-three political parties could not get even one per cent of the total votes cast, which is one of the pre-conditions for being eligible for getting registered by the Election Commission. Five political parties secured 96.16 per cent of the votes, 148 independent candidates bagged 2.95 per cent of the votes ... Read more
Indian Muslims under pressure in Mumbai aftermath
Reuters/Bdnews24.com . New Delhi In a government morgue in Mumbai lie the bodies of nine Islamist militants responsible for killing 172 people in a bloody attack on India’s financial hub. The deadly rampage happened in November, but India’s Muslims have refused to bury the gunmen, distancing themselves from the killings in a country where Hindu ... Read more
Fixing of rice price depends upon cost of agri-inputs
A.T.M.Nurun Nabi The fixing of rice price depends upon many factors. Among them, the easy availability of agricultural inputs including fertilisers, their cost, fair distribution, and borrowing of loans by the marginal and sharecroppers from NGOs, money lenders and banks are to be accounted for as well. It has been observed that the price of ... Read more
Mobile network in 3 hill dists to be expanded
Staff Reporter Bangladesh Government has decided to expand mobile network in three hill districts of Khagrachari, Bandarban and Rangamati. Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) Chairman Maj Gen (Retd) Manzurul Alam said that the people of hill districts were deprived of mobile phone benefit though people of other parts of the country got the opportunity. “The ... Read more
Asia’s stocks end painful year
Afp, Hong Kong Asia’s markets closed Wednesday to bring down the curtain on a miserable year that saw them lose half their worth in the wake of the global financial meltdown. Despite a number of bourses gaining some ground over the past few days, the overall picture for 2008 has been one of gloom as ... Read more
Capital market ends a topsy-turvy year
Sadat Sayem Heavy inflow of liquidity and entry of fresh investors in the first half of 2008 helped Bangladesh’s stock market sustain the bull run it witnessed in 2007, surpassing all the records in market indicators made during a boom from January 14 in the previous