The government plans to go for legal battle with the Supreme Court to rescind the High Court verdict that acquitted six former military personnel of the killing of four national leaders in jail on November 3, 1975.
The government is going to install 'i2 software system' and 'vispec 4 plus in documentation analysis centres' in all international airports of the country, sea ports and the land ports to stop cross border terrorism and smuggling.
The government on Thursday decided to withdraw 293 more ‘politically-motivated cases’ mostly against members of the ruling Awami League. The decision came at the ninth meeting of the national review committee on withdrawal of politically-motivated cases at the home affairs ministry with state minister for law Quamrul Islam in the chair. The meeting did not recommend withdrawal of any such cases against leaders of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led alliance.
The government recently took approval of the parliament on an anti-begging law with the commitment to uproot the phenomenon of begging in the city streets within five years. The law says anyone who asks for charity in public, or displays handicaps or mutilations in order to obtain money, will be punished with three months in prison.
The government is planning to issue a gazette notification stating that any future mutiny and other offences in paramilitary Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) will be tried under the army act. Home Secretary Abdus Sobhan Sikder confirmed The Daily Star that the matter has been under the government's consideration.
The new work hours for government, semi-government, autonomous and private banks, financial corporations or institutions to control chaos on the streets of the capital will be enforced from Sunday (Oct 18). Secondary, higher secondary and English medium schools will follow the new schedule from Nov 1.
The government has decided to shut down all industries in the country, which do not have effluent treatment plant (ETP), State Minister for Environment and Forest Dr Hasan Mahmud said today.
Commerce Minister Faruk Khan today said the government is likely to announce a stimulus package for the garment sector this month. The minister said this while talking to reporters after inaugurating Centre of Export and Product Development (CEPD) at the BGMEA Institute of Fashion and Technology (BIFT) at Uttara this morning.
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.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said the government will take necessary measures to stop use of children in political activities as they are often used for it. "Children would be aware of politics but should not be used in the political activities," the prime minister said while inaugurating a programme on the occasion of World Children's Day and Child Rights Week 2009.
