Directors of some of Bangladesh’s biggest business conglomerates, including the Summit, the Square, and the United group of companies, own or have owned offshore companies in the secretive tax haven of the British Virgin Islands, New Age can reveal. Information about their offshore company ownership is contained amongst the 2.5 million electronic files which were leaked to the International Consortium […]
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its allies lamented the absence of Awami League leaders from the iftar party hosted by BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Saturday. Khaleda Zia hosted the iftar to the country’s politicians on the premises of LD hall of the Jatiya Sangsad. BNP said it had invited all political parties to the iftar. Apart from the leaders […]
Saudi Arabia Saturday urged elderly and chronically ill Muslims not to perform the Hajj pilgrimage, to curb the spread of the MERS coronavirus which has killed 38 in the kingdom. The health ministry issued a set of conditions for people wanting to perform the annual Hajj, which this year falls in October, or the year-round omra or minor pilgrimage. They […]
Short listed construction firms asked for the assurance of foreign currency from the government as a pre-condition for bidding in the international tender it had floated for building the Padma Bridge, officials said. They said the Bridge Division requested the government to make $2.03 billion available as early as possible to ensure participation of the short listed international companies in […]
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Saturday deplored the remarks Hefajat-e-Islam chief Shah Ahmad Shafi had made on women in a recent religious meeting in Chittagong. Shafi’s remarks irked many as they said it was derogatory and belittled women, their freedom, education and employment. Addressing a function at Ganobhaban, the prime minister wondered that how a person, who was born […]
The Public Service Commission will publish results, reviewed in keeping with the previous system, of the 34th Bangladesh Civil Service preliminary tests today. In the face of movement of some unsuccessful candidates, the Public Service Commission in a statement on Saturday evening said that the results reviewed based on the previous system would be published. The commission decided to review […]
At least 300 teachers and employees of non-government secondary schools are reported to have managed salary from the state exchequer in June although they are not supposed to get the monthly pay order facility, according to a New Age investigation. Most of the educational institutions in Bangladesh are set up on private initiatives and they later start getting government financial […]
The 18th session of the 9th parliament resumes this morning after an 11-day recess. Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury announced the adjournment on July 2. On June 30, parliament passed the Tk 2, 22, 491 crore national budget for the new fiscal 2013-14 with the adoption of the Appropriations Bill, 2013 amid walkout by the opposition. This was the first time […]
At least 50 people including cops were injured and traffic remained suspended for two hours and a half as garment workers blocked Kaliakair-Nabinagar highway Panishail of Kaliakair in Gazipur on Saturday. The agitated workers also damaged the windowpanes of at least 15 factories in the area throwing pieces of bricks. The worker of Macihata garment factory told newsmen that for […]
A marine police patrol arrested 62 asylum seekers from Myanmar, Bangladesh and Nepal aboard a ship off the coast of Karawang, West Java on Friday. The undocumented migrants were taken to the Karawang immigration office for questioning, reported various international online media. Forty-one of the migrants from Bangladesh, eighteen from Myanmar, three from Nepal and two Indonesian crewmen were arrested. […]
The flood waters began to recede in the northern districts of Thakurgaon, Lalmonirhat, Kurigram, Dinajpur and Panchagarh on Saturday. In the Brahmaputra-Jamuna river basin the floods began to recede. But the Ganges-Padma and the Meghna rivers continued to swell. The Brahmaputra-Jamuna might remain steady while the Ganges-Padma and the Meghna could rise further in the next 48 hours, the Flood […]
Bhutan’s main opposition People’s Democratic Party won a majority of seats in parliamentary elections Saturday and will take over power in the tiny Himalayan nation. The PDP won 32 seats in the 47-member National Assembly, according to results posted on the official website of Bhutan’s Election Commission. The ruling Peace and Prosperity Party won only 15 seats. Chief Election Commissioner […]
Irked by ‘unnecessary’ criticism, prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said she will go for a tit-for-tat policy against those criticising the government relentlessly over the quick rental power plant issue. ‘Let the holy Ramadan be over, let the holy Eid pass by, I’ll do that …I’ll do that after open declaration,’ she said while delivering her speech at the […]
Transparency International on Saturday ruled out any possibility of twisting the results of its Global Corruption Barometer 2012 that found political parties in Bangladesh, also elsewhere, were the most corrupt institution. The executive director of the Bangladesh chapter of the global corruption watchdog, Iftekharuzzman, in response to a question from a participant in the BBC Bangladesh Sanglap, said there was […]
Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Abdul Moyeen Khan on Saturday said that the Rampal power plant agreement would be cancelled if the BNP was voted to power. He made the pledge as a discussion organised by Save the Sundarban at the National Press Club pressing for halting Rampal power plant to save Sundarban. The government already signed a deal with an […]
The Communist Party of Bangladesh’s Khulna district unit on Friday announced their six candidates for six parliamentary constituencies of the district for the next general elections. The candidates are Ashok Sarker, CPB Batiaghata upazila unit general secretary for Khulna-1, HM Shahadat, city unit president for Khulna 2, SA Rashid, CPB Khulna district unit general secretary for Khulna 3, Nishikanta Baroi, […]
Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Moudud Ahmed on Saturday hoped that the incumbent government would reach an agreement with the opposition over the issue of an election-time caretaker government. Otherwise, he warned that the Awami League would be the loser. ‘Awami League as the ruling party is passing through a grave crisis. We hope it would reach an understanding avoiding the […]
Bus owners and workers went on an indefinite strike on all routes of the district on Saturday afternoon protesting at a terrorist attack on two bus workers. The district was virtually cut off from the rest of the country due to the strike that began around 3:30pm, causing immense sufferings to commuters. District Bus-Minibus Workers’ Association president Kahar Mia said […]
Bangladesh has remained actively engaged with all concerned, both at home and abroad, for the speedy and safe release of the seven Bangladeshi crew members, now detained in Somalia. In addition to the series of steps taken by the ministry to get them released, it has been continuously maintaining communications through informal channels with relevant authorities, including Maritime Piracy and […]
Different left leaning political parties and women’s rights on Saturday in separate statements condemned the derogatory comments on women by Hefajat-e-Islam amir Allama Ahmed Shafi. The central steering committee of the Democratic Left Alliance, a combine of eight left leaning political parties, at a meeting termed the remarks of Shafi ‘vulgar and ill motivated’ which, they said, had shamed the […]
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