Category: Lead News

Government job seekers who were demanding the cancellation of the quota system in recruitment to government jobs announced fresh programmes on Thursday to realise their demand would organise demos also today (Friday).

A legal notice was on Thursday served to the Election Commission (EC) asking for holding the much-delayed elections to the bifurcated Dhaka City Corporations (DCCs).

Dhaka, July 11 (UNB) – Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Thursday indicated not accepting a recent Chinese firm’s offer of investing US$ 2.4 billion for implementing the Padma Bridge project as he was not prepared to accept any fixed contract.

Opposition BNP on Thursday lodged a complaint with the Election Commission (EC) against Bangladesh Nationalist Front (BNF) for submitting an application seeking registration as a political party using BNP’s logo and portrait of its founder Ziaur Rahman.

DHAKA – About 20 people were injured as police was locked in repeated clashes with young government job seekers at Shahbagh intersection and on Dhaka University campus demanding immediate cancellation of the quota system in recruitment to government jobs.

State Minister for Law Quamrul Islam on Wednesday said the recent Transparency International TI report that branded politician and police most corrupt is aimed at assassinating the character of politicians and making the judiciary controversial.

Opposition BNP on Wednesday alleged that a government-backed syndicate of traders is pushing up the prices of essentials through market manipulation ahead of Ramadan beginning on Thursday.

If the Election Commission has its way, political parties will be empowered to cancel candidature in any constituency.

The Anti-Corruption Commission has filed three cases against Padma Oil’s Managing Director Abul Khayer and 92 others for corruption in appointment. ACC Deputy Director Mohammad Morshed Alam filed the cases with Sadarghat police on Wednesday.

Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury on Wednesday said the government has taken in hand a ‘special incentive programme’ to rehabilitate the farmers who were hard-hit by tropical cyclone ‘Mahasen’.

Admitting that there is corruption in the judiciary, Supreme Court Bar Association SCBA general secretary Barrister Mahbub Uddin Khokon on Wednesday claimed lawyers are in no way involved in it.

President of Bikalpadhara Bangladesh Prof Dr AQM Barruddoza Chowdhury and Krishak Sramik  Janata League chief Bangabir Kader Suddiky on Wednesday announced to form an alternative force to go to power.

Rejecting the Prime Minister’s remarks that the next general election will be held the way elections are held in other parliamentary democracies, opposition BNP on Tuesday urged the government to arrange it under a non-party caretaker government shunning its stubbornness…

Awami League presidium member Mohammad Nasim on Tuesday said that his party is neither frustrated nor worried by the defeat of five party supported mayoral candidates.

Political parties and police are the most corrupt sectors in Bangladesh followed by the judiciary, says a newly revealed report of the Transparency The report says about 60 percent people think that corruption has been increased in the country in…

Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad on Tuesday said that he did not make any mistake by extending his party’s support to Awami League-backed mayoral candidate of Gazipur City Corporation polls.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday invited Belarusian entrepreneurs to massively invest in Bangladesh availing attractive incentives, cheap labour and a huge domestic market of around 160 million people.

The government on Tuesday decided to withdraw both the cases filed by Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) against Jhalakati college student Limon Hossain, maimed by the elite force two years back.

State-owned China Poly Group International has promised to invest $2.4 billion in the 6.15 kms rail-road bridge, which Bangladesh wants to build with its own resources.

With days passing by both the defence and the prosecution counsel are getting intolerant slipping away from professional gesture during the trial of 1971 war crimes resulting in humiliation of witnesses on both sides.

Egypt’s interim leader has outlined his timetable for new elections, amid continuing unrest in the country.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday reiterated that the next general elections in Bangladesh would follow the other parliamentary democracies across the world.

Awami League joint general secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif on Monday said there will be no impact of the defeats of the party-backed candidates in recent elections poll to five city corporations on the next parliamentary polls.

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Indian Border Security Force (BSF) on Monday decided to strictly check smuggling and human trafficking through Satkhira frontiers.

A garment factory owner was shot and injured by an alleged local terrorist in the city’s Mirpur area on Monday.

The government has constituted a high-powered committee to further review the recently approved Labour Act following the withdrawal of GSP privilege by the US.

At least 51 people have been killed in violence outside the headquarters of the Republican Guard in Cairo, according to the head of Egypt’s emergency services.