Bangladesh Government and International Development Association of World Bank (WB) signed a credit deal of Tk 274 crore on Wednesday morning.
Day: February 27, 2013
BGB deployment in city ahead of hartal
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel will be deployed in the city in the evening to prevent subversive activities ahead of Thursday’s hartal called by Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami.
Thursday’s SSC exams shifted to Mar 8
The government on Wednesday rescheduled Thursday’s Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations due to a countrywide dawn-to-dusk shutdown called on the same day by Jamaat-e-Islami.
Protesters to resist Thursday’s hartal
The protesters on Wednesday urged the people of the country to resist Thursday’s hartal called by Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami.
‘Shahbagh a ploy to cover up govt failure’
BNP’s Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday alleged that the government had ‘set up’ the Ganajagaran Mancha at Shahbagh ‘to cover up’ its failure over the past four years.
Jamaat’s countrywide hartal observed
The Jamaat-e-Islami has called for another dawn-to-dusk nationwide strike on Thursday , apparently to time it with a possible ‘war crimes’ verdict on party leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee.
Sayedee verdict Thursday
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 will issue the verdict in the war crimes case against Jamaat leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee Thursday.
Bahrain to recruit 20,000 workers
Bahrain is willing to hire manpower from Bangladesh under government-to-government arrangements following the footsteps of Malaysia and Hong Kong, the Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister said on Sunday.
Police file cases against Kishoreganj Islamists
Police have filed two cases following Monday’s violent clashes with the activists of 12 Islamist parties who alleged that the bloggers associated with the Shahbag movement are ‘defaming Islam’.