When a new batch of civil service officers go to the Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre in Savar next year, they may well be joined by a number of young would-be-bureaucrats from India, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal Bhutan and Maldives.
Mayor of Sirajganj and BNP reformist expelled from the party today filed a case against BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and 18 others challenging the legality of convening the Sirajganj district council on November 19. Admitting the case of TRM Noor-e-Alam, assistant judge Alamgir Kabir set Wednesday (Nov 18) for hearing.
The Ministry of Communications is finally floating tender today for building an elevated expressway of 32.5 kilometres or more in Dhaka on a public private partnership (PPP) basis. The Bangladesh Bridge Authority (BBA) under the ministry will receive pre-qualification documents for this $2 billion project from interested bidders till January 20.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the UN and the advanced developed countries to give priority to the most vulnerable countries (MVC) and least developed countries (LDC) and keep them in a separate group to face the effect of the climate changes caused by global warming.
A UN commission has suspend further action on Myanmar's claim on the outer-limits of the continental shelf in the Bay of Bengal. An announcement of ministry of foreign affairs (MOFA) yesterday said that the Union of Myanmar submitted its outer-continental-shelf claim on December 16, 2008 to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS).
BNP Secretary General Khandaker Delwar Hossain summoned four top party leaders of Chittagong unit for making decision regarding city unit council, which was foiled on Monday due to intra-party clash, sources said. Party insiders said the high command took the matter seriously and decided to take stern actions to send a message to the squabbling party leaders across the country so that the plan to hold councils is not hampered.
The law-enforcing agencies will take special plans to prevent acts of sabotage over the announcement of the final verdict of Bangabandhu murder trial on Nov 19, the home minister said yesterday. "The law-enforcing agencies have been instructed to be watchful so that no unpleasant incident occurs following the verdict," Sahara Khatun told reporters after a meeting on the state of law and order at the Secretariat.
Commonwealth gold medallist shooter Asif Hossain Khan is soul-searching after a poor performance in the South Asian Games' preparation that eventually forced him out of the Asian Air Gun Championship squad.
German sport-goods giant Adidas has under taken a project to produce low-cost trainers for poor buyers, a London-based newspaper reported on Tuesday. Quoting an Adidas spokesman, the newspaper stated that the project was undertaken after being convinced by the noble laureate and founder of Grameen Bank, Mohammad Yunus.
Nobody can get benefit of law without surrendering to it, according to eminent criminal lawyer and principal Counsel of Bangabandhu Murder case Advocate Anisul Huq. Advocate Huq made this remark when his opinion was sought regarding exoneration of punishment of Sadab Akbar Chowdhury, son of Deputy Leader of Parliament Sajeda Chowdhury. He said the President by exoneration of the punishment of Sadab has committed an error.
Law enforcement agencies were on Tuesday asked to keep watch on all madrassahs and relatives of the convicts in the Sheikh Mujibur Rahman murder case and beneficiaries of the assassination until execution of the verdict in the case, said a lawmaker for a Dhaka constituency.
Grassroots leaders and activists of the opposition BNP became sharply divided in most of the party’s district units over holding council sessions to establish factional stronghold. With just 21 days left before the party’s national council session, no committee could be formed of any district unit and the first two attempts to hold council sessions at district levels were marred by in-party violence.
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