Nearly 200 ‘aggrieved’ officers have sought a review of the recent promotions to the rank of joint secretary although the government has decided not to rethink their cases at the moment. ‘The aggrieved officers are submitting applications to the public administration ministry’s senior secretary…His office has so far received around 200 applications seeking a review of the promotion process,’ a […]
A worker was killed and seven others injured in a fire that broke out in a shoe factory at Islambagh of Chakbazar in the capital’s old part on Monday. The deceased was identified as Sabbir, 22, a worker of Shikder Shoe Factory. The injured workers Dipu, 14, Sentu, Sharif, Uzzal, Rubel, Shohel and Babu were admitted to Dhaka Medical College […]
The telecom regulator on Sunday sent a proposal to the telecommunications ministry for lowering the incoming call charge and revenue sharing from international gateway operators which would cause a loss of Tk 1,073 crore in government revenues every year. Officials of the post and telecommunications ministry said Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission had proposed to lower the international call termination charge […]
Some 70 people legalised around Tk 130 crore of undisclosed money through the stock market in the just-concluded fiscal year 2012-13, officials of National Board of Revenue on Monday said. They said money whitening facility by paying 10 per cent tax did not much attract the holders of undisclosed money last fiscal year and it also failed to prop up […]
A city unit leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party was shot dead by unknown gunmen in the capital’s Hazaribagh on Monday. He was identified as Ward-22 unit AL convenor Jasim Uddin, 45, also a hide trader. Hazaribagh police officer-in-charge Mohammad Iqbal said that Jasim was going to bazaar along with his son. As they reached the bazaar, two unidentified people […]
Bangladesh Railway is refusing to sell air conditioned first class tickets for Dhaka-Rajshahi and Dhaka-Dinajpur inter-city trains to ordinary passengers as those have been ‘reserved’ for influential people before the Eid festival. People who went to Kamalapur railway station on Monday said the BR staff had refused to sell tickets for berths and first-class coaches of the trains that would […]
The government’s not so friendly bid to reform the Grameen Bank has apparently suffered a slow down. The delay in submitting the final recommendations by a commission appointed by almost one and half years back resulted in slowing down the reform bids, said officials. Finance Minister AMA Muhith refrained from making a public statement on Grameen Bank and its ousted […]
The National Curriculum and Textbook Board is publishing textbooks for 2014 without reinserting the biography of renowned politician late Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani in the Bangla books for class V and VIII ignoring the recommendation of a parliamentary watchdog. The board, which is entrusted to develop curriculum and to print, publish and distribute free textbooks among schoolchildren, had dropped […]
State-run Petrobangla on Monday received a poor response from international oil companies in a re-tender process for oil and gas exploration in six shallow sea blocks as it received a lone bid from a joint-venture company. ‘Only Santos-Krisenergy joint-venture submitted a bid for shallow sea hydrocarbon block 11,’ Petrobangla chairman Hossain Monsur told New Age. Now Santos operates lone offshore […]
One of the two cases filed against college student Limon Hossain, who had to have the left leg amputated after being shot at by Rapid Action Battalion personnel in Jhalakati village, was withdrawn on Monday. The Jhalakathi Speedy Trial Tribunal 2 judge, Kiran Shankar Hawlader, ordered the withdrawal of the arms case following a petition filed by the public prosecutor […]
Supporters of Egypt’s ousted president called for new protests on Monday, threatening to deepen the country’s crisis as the EU foreign policy chief met both the government and the opposition. The Anti-Coup Alliance of Islamist groups organising protests against the ouster of president Mohamed Morsi urged demonstrators to march on security buildings on Monday night and called a million-man march […]
The High Court deferred till today (Tuesday) for issuing its order on the two writ petitions filed seeking a directive on the government and the Election Commission to announce elections schedule to hold the stalled mayoral elections in the two city corporations in Dhaka. The order was earlier scheduled to be passed on Monday. A bench of Justice Mirza Hussain […]
Rangpur district Awami League will demand the party ticket for Rangpur 6 parliamentary constituency for prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy in the next general elections. Rangpur district Awami League general secretary Rezaul Karim Razu stated this at a press conference on Monday ahead of the prime minister’s visit to Pirganj scheduled for Wednesday. Hasina was elected from […]
In his second day’s closing arguments prosecutor Sultan Mahmud Simon on Monday drove the point that all the documentary evidences confirmed beyond doubts the crimes Salauddin Quader Chowdhury had committed in 1971. Salauddin on trial for 23 counts of crimes against humanity was in the dock. Sultan submitted in the International Crimes Tribunal-1that not only the testimony by the prosecution […]
The High Court on Monday acquitted the death penalty of one and the life terms of four others for killing a landlord in Bogra in October 2006. On April 3, 2008, a Speedy Trial Tribunal in Rajshahi had sentenced M Alif Islam alias Milu to death and four others —Hadi alias Abdul Hadi, Ashikuzzaman alias Sajib Mondol, Mohammad Bappy, and […]
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Monday directed the counsel for condemned convict Jamaat leader Mohammad Kamaruzzaman to submit by September 17 the summarized argument on the appeal Kamaruzzaman filed against his conviction. A five-judge bench chaired by Chief Justice Md Muzammel Hossain set the date after Quamruzzaman’s counsel Abdur Razzaq had sought time to file the summarized […]
Speakers at a seminar on Monday said that the government would have to ensure proper monitoring of Zakat collection and utilisation of Zakat fund for poverty alleviation, economic development and boosting living standard of people. They said that the government should consider Zakat as a new tool to eradicate poverty. Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Centre for […]
Awami League general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam on Monday said that he did not have the ‘information’ which the prime minister’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy said he had, but added that he was sensing Awami League’s victory in the next polls. ‘I have no information but being a politician I have reason to believe that Awami League would return to […]
A court in Dhaka on Monday sent blogger Asif Mohiuddin, who was on bail in a case on charge of hurting religious sentiments, to jail again. The acting judge of the Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court, Md Akteruzzaman, passed the order rejecting Asif’s prayer for the extension of the bail that expired on Monday. The court also posted for August […]
The cabinet on Monday approved a proposal to issue 25 new licences for trawlers — 15 mid-water and 10 long-liners — to fish in the Bay of Bengal. The fisheries and livestock ministry placed the proposal at the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office with the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, in the chair. ‘The cabinet has endorsed the […]
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