Under pressure from different lobbies and also for legal reasons, the government is considering refund of the money deposited to the exchequer following anti-corruption drives during the last caretaker government.
The High Court on Wednesday directed the government and the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) authorities to keep plots at Uattara 3rd phase reserved for 130 people whose allotment were cancelled during the caretaker government. The HC bench of Justice Shahidul Islam and Justice Syeda Afsar Jahan passed the order upon applications filed by five people whose plots were cancelled.
The BNP secretary-general has said it has no confidence in the Election Commission, saying it is being used as a political pawn by the government as it was by the caretaker government.
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, said the BNP-Jamaat government had politicised the administration severely while the caretaker government made the administration people panicked through its various aggressive activities.
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Sunday said that the military-backed interim government had tried various ploys during its two-year rule to mislead the people. But, she said, the people had foiled their designs by voting the Awami League-led alliance to power in the December 29, 2008 general elections to get rid of a nightmarish situation.
Employees of Bangladesh Shilpo Rin Sangstha (BSRS) urged the government not to implement the wrong decision of just departed Caretaker Government (CG) in merging the profit earning BSRS with the Bangladesh Shilpo Bank (BSB).
Two parliamentary standing committees working on graft and irregularities have decided to refer to their respective ministries the findings of their probe reports against former advisers Barrister Mainul Hosein and Anwarul Iqbal for passing on to Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) for legal action, competent sources said yesterday.
Port workers sacked during the caretaker government would be reinstated in their job in phases, Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan said today.
The blanket criticism of the 2007-2008 caretaker government will only stymie democratic progress, the ruling Awami League's general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam said today.
A number of fresh irregularities were found against the former adviser of caretaker government Mainul Hossain, a parliamentary sub-committee on housing and public works ministry said today. The allegations include purchasing of a flat and a plot in two different names of his wife, the committee said.
