Education policy to uphold religious values: Naheed
Sun November 8, 2009 - 10:08pm BdSTEducation Minister Nurul Islam Naheed on Sunday said the national education policy would be finalised upholding religious values.
Education Minister Nurul Islam Naheed on Sunday said the national education policy would be finalised upholding religious values.
The government will need to continue with extrajudicial killing, commonly called ‘crossfire,’ until terrorist activities and extortion is uprooted, said a senior minister in Sheikh Hasina’s cabinet. ‘A time will come when it will no longer be required,’ said the shipping minister, Shahjahan Khan, as he answered a question at the BBC’s Bangladesh Sanglap at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre on Saturday.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today expanded her cabinet by inducting a minister and five state ministers in the council of ministers formed on January 6.
Water resources minister Ramesh Chandra Sen said on Monday accused the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party of trying to use the Tipaimukh dam issue for political gains saying that Bangladesh could even be benefited from the dam.
Dhaka court today sent former jute and textiles minister Shajahan Siraj to jail in a tax evasion case in which he was earlier sentenced to eight years in trial in absentia.
Indian Premier League (IPL) chiefs were Sunday defending themselves against government charges that the lucrative Twenty20 event in South Africa was "encouraging gambling and betting".
Local Government and Rural Development Minister Syed Ashraful Islam today said the government would not allow any more extra-judicial killing in the name of ‘crossfire’.
The construction of the railway linking Chittagong with Cox's Bazar will kick off before the Awami League-led government leaves power, Communications Minister Syed Abul Hossain said today.
The government on Saturday night barred the former state minister for power, Iqbal Hassan Mahmood Tuku, from going to Singapore.

‘জেনারেল মইন আব্রাহাম লিংকনের মতো মহামানব’ খাদ্য ও দুর্যোগ ব্যবস্থাপনা মন্ত্রী ড. আব্দুর রাজ্জাক এ কথা বলেছেন জানিয়ে এই শিরোনামে দৈনিক আমার দেশ ও আমাদের সময়ে প্রকাশিত খবরের প্রতিবাদ জানিয়েছেন মন্ত্রীর জনসংযোগ কর্মকর্তা জনাব গোলাম কিবরিয়া।