The Election Commission (EC) has finally decided to exempt 39 political parties from submitting to it within the timeframe, audit reports on their financial transactions in the immediate past year, without amending the legal provision in this regard.
The government is going to take stern actions against 199 former and sitting members of parliament (MPs) as they have been identified as telephone bill defaulters. The MPs include those from the first Jatiya Sangsad (parliament, JS) to the eighth Jatiya Sangsad.
A parliamentary body today asked the Madrasa education board chairman to take action against the madrasas refraining from hanging portraits of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Awami League spokesperson Syed Ashraful Islam, rejecting BNP's demands to take action against Indian high commissioner Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty, said Thursday that the envoy did not overstep diplomatic norms in remarks about the Tipaimukh dam.
Commerce minister Faruq Khan has promised action against people who distorted and invented history of the independence war.
Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) Trusty Board Chairman Professor Muzaffer Ahmed on Monday called upon the government to conduct audit and take legal action against those responsible for additional expenditure during 9th parliamentary election in excess of the amount fixed by the Election Commission.
Riot police swing into action to break up students' rally demanding reduction of price of Dhaka University admission forms on the campus yesterday. NN photo
Ten people were injured when and the fought pitched battles at an inter-district bus station in the port city on Sunday, halting bus operations and stranding homebound people.
Rights activists yesterday demanded stern action against those who attacked indigenous people and grabbed their lands at Tarash in Sirajganj on September 15. They also demanded steps to ensure the indigenous people's right to land.
The demands were placed at a press conference organised by Bangladesh Indigenous Peoples' Forum, Bangladesh Adibashi Odhikar Andolon, Gano Kaylan Sangstha and Bangladesh Manobadhikar Bastabayon Sangstha at Dhaka Reporters' Unity auditorium in the city.
