Some Juba League leaders with the connivance of businessmen at Bangabazar are constructing a ‘market’ on the footpath at Gulishtan and selling ‘possessions’ for Tk 10 lakh each. The syndicate, however, claimed that they have ‘approval’ from the Dhaka South City Corporation for the market construction and they would provide businessmen with required documents in support of their legal allocation. […]
The government on Tuesday ordered the authorities concerned to suspend registration of motorbikes for one month in Dhaka with effect from today in a move to restore discipline in the city traffic system. ‘The number of unregistered motorbikes is double or may be triple the number of registered ones…We will conduct a survey to assess the actual situation as such […]
The government has finally decided to begin construction of much-talked about Dhaka Elevated Expressway in August under the Public-Private Partnership project to ease traffic in the capital. The decision came about three years after the cabinet of Sheikh Hasina had approved the PPP project under the communications ministry as the five-year tenure of the Awami League government ends in January, […]
The government is extending the tenure of the Grameen Bank Commission by about two months to prepare the final recommendations on the Nobel peace prize winning micro-credit entity and its sister concerns. Finance ministry officials said that the commission that was assigned more than a year ago to recommend the government reforms in Grameen Bank had already sought the time […]
The Anti-Corruption Commission chairman Ghulam Rahman on Tuesday said that former communications minister Syed Abul Hossain would have been sued if investigation had found him involved in the Padma Bridge ‘corruption conspiracy’. ‘The World Bank panel of experts asked us to file a case against him [Abul]. But we did not sue him as our investigation did not find enough […]
The World Bank in its final report on the investigation of the ‘conspiracy of corruption’ in the Padma Bridge project said that there was ‘no legal reason to exclude former communications minister’ Syed Abul Hossain from the Anti-Corruption Commission’s investigation list. Abul Hossain was on the list of suspects of the the WB external panel that former chief prosecutor of […]
The course of investigation into the Padma Bridge kickback conspiracy by Anti-Corruption Commission will not change, as the government is preparing its reply to the World Bank, the finance ministry officials said Tuesday. There would be no change in the course of investigation into the graft conspiracy despite WB’s reservations, ACC chairman Golam Rahman told New Age after a meeting […]
Two field officers of the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence were hospitalised with critical injuries after Ansar members beat them up at Ashiyan Lands Development office in the capital’s Gulshan on Monday evening. The field officers—corporals Abu Taher and Saiful Islam—are currently stationed at the Dhaka Detachment of the intelligence agency, officials said. They were admitted to a military hospital […]
The excessive hot weather accompanied by high humidity is likely sweep across the capital and rest of Bangladesh until the next week, forecasters said on Tuesday. Bangladesh has been grappling with the hot weather for last few days. Normal life was hampered across the country due to sweltering heat with the ambient temperature virtually remaining unchanged throughout the day. The […]
A noisy scene occurred in the court room of the International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Tuesday as war crimes accused Salauddin Quader Chowdury, MP, stood to testify as the first defence witness in his case for the second day. It all began as Salauddin and the lawyers on both the sides entered into altercations. Salauddin faces trial on 23 counts of […]
The government has submitted to the High Court a list of 124 houses allotted to government high-ups and its offices and officers. The directorate of government accommodation and the housing and public works ministry submitted the list to the bench of Justice Mirza Hussain Haider and Justice Muhammad Khurshid Alam Sarkar on Tuesday in compliance with an order issued on […]
The authorities declared holiday at two garment factories in Gazipur for Tuesday amid workers’ strike — over rumour on ghost at a factory and for wage hike at the other. Witnesses and the police said that the workers of Norf Knitting Factory at Islampur of Gazipur sadar uapazila enforced strike at the factory alleging that the management took no step […]
Opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party lawmakers on Tuesday told parliament that the government would face peoples’ wrath unless the provisions for election-time non-party caretaker government was restored. Taking part in the general debate on the proposed budget, the BNP lawmakers also said that Awami League president Sheikh Hasina had invented the caretaker government system and the nation learned the expression `caretaker […]
The High Court on Tuesday directed the lawyer for the Anti-Corruption Commission’s chairman Ghulam Rahman to submit to court today the letter of his appointment to the commission, the statement of his first month’s salary and the letter of his resignation from the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission. A bench of Justice Mirza Hussain Haider and Justice Muhammad Khurshid Alam Sarkar […]
A court on Tuesday granted bail to a teacher of Central Girls High School hours after he was arrested at Lakshmibazar in the Old Town of Dhaka on Monday night for allegedly molesting a student. Metropolitan magistrate Sabrina Ali granted bail to the teacher, Basudev Kumar Roy, 38, also a resident of Kazi Abdur Rauf Road at Sutrapur, as the […]
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, has expressed Bangladesh’s abiding commitment to Commonwealth’s fundamental values and principles such as promotion of democracy, rule of law, gender equity and freedom of expression. The prime minister said this when visiting Commonwealth secretary general Kamalesh Sharma called on her at her office in the city Tuesday. Sharma is now in Dhaka to attend 10th […]
A court in Narayanganj Tuesday indicted Harkat-ul-Jihad leader Mufti Hannan and six others for bomb attack on Chashara Awami League office that killed 20 people and injured several others on June 16, 2001. The court also issued arrest order against the fugitives and simultaneously ordered for shifting the ‘explosives case’ to the trial court. Senior Chief Judicial Magistrate of Narayanganj […]
The families of the people who disappeared after being picked up allegedly by law enforcers or state agencies decided on Tuesday to build up a network of such families to protest against enforced disappearance. They made the decision at a meeting of the families of the victims of enforced disappearance organised by rights organisation Odhikar at Young Women Christian Association […]
A group of Bangladesh Chhatra League activists on Tuesday vandalised the officer of the vice-chancellor of Islamic University in Kushtia demanding removal of his personal secretary Zillur Rahman and assistant registrar (transport) Harunur Rashid. The activists alleged that the two officers had earlier engaged outsiders to beat up former Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-backed Chhatra League university unit convener Saifuzzaman Patla. According […]
A former Directorate General of Forces Intelligence official on Tuesday told a speedy trial tribunal that the intelligence agency usually did many ‘assignments’ other than the official assignments. The agency’s former general staff officer Lieutenant Commander Mizanur Rahman made the statement in cross-examination by a defence counsel in the cases for the grenade attack on Awami League rally on August […]
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