Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged the Malaysian government to provide maximum facilities for Bangladeshis working in Malaysia. She made the call when a five-member delegation led by Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Dato’ Haji Muhyiddin bin Mohd. Yassin paid a call on her at her hotel suite here.
State Minister for Law Advocate Qamrul Islam on Tuesday asked the Awami League leaders and workers not to bring out any procession or hold rally after the final verdict on Bangabandhu assassination case on Thursday. After a meeting at the home ministry, the state minister told reporters that they asked the party men to stay calm and not to get over-excited over the verdict.
Russia will build a complete 1000 megawatts nuclear power plant in Ruppur charging a minimum cost from Bangladesh. The government informed it at a meeting of the parliamentary standing committee on Science and Information Technology yesterday.
Bangladesh has shown a remarkable progress in eliminating corruption as it has been placed 139th among 180 countries in the Transparency International’s (TI) annual Corruption Perception Index (CPI) for 2009. Bangladesh has moved eight steps up from last year’s 147th in the index with an increase of 0.3 point on a scale of 0-10, according to the report released in Dhaka on Tuesday at a press briefing.
Finance minister AMA Muhith has turned down the proposal for restoring the banking division in the finance ministry as the number of the government-run banks has diminished in the last few years and the ministry does not need to have much of a say in their affairs and operation, said officials.
Bangladesh is all for closer relations with India, especially with the tribal community of the India's northeast states as both of them share a unique close bond due to geographical contiguity, uniform culture and ethnic resemblances. Bangladesh Minister of State for Cultural Affairs Promode Mankin Sangma made this observation when he set his feet in Meghalaya for the first time after assuming the charges of a ministry under new Awami League government under the Prime minister Sheikh Hasina.
Inefficient and inappropriate use of natural gas in different sectors have incurred losses of Tk 4,074.6 crore per year in the country, an independent investigation by The New Nation Staff Reporter Shamim Jahangir.
The government cancelled all daily leases of riverbanks used for storing sand and brick for commercial purposes, now that an eviction drive is on to free the country's rivers from occupiers following a binding High Court order. After a meeting of the Task Force on maintaining navigability of major rivers at the ministry of shipping Sunday, the shipping minister, Shajahan Khan, told reporters that 'the yearly and long-term leases will also be cancelled'. He said BIWTA had been asked to reclaim the occupied lands in those areas.
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Dr ATM Shamsul Huda here on Sunday said, election to the Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) will be held in March and the municipalities in May next year. He also said, election to the Union Parishad may be held in September-October. He, however, said no date has yet been finalized or announced but we are doing some projections in this regard.
Civil-military relationship is needed to be coordinated and integrated to strengthen democracy of the nation, said HT Imam, an adviser to the prime minister. Imam made the remark while inaugurating a four-day workshop on national security and civil-military relation in Bangladesh.
