The LGRD and Cooperatives Ministry rejected the Election Commission's (EC) much talked about proposal for disqualifying political leaders holding party posts from contesting in elections to city corporations and municipalities.
Chief of Army Staff General Moeen U Ahmed yesterday dismissed the fear of 'silent famine' in the country, saying the government has overcome the fallout of consecutive floods and a devastating cyclone.
GMG Airlines in a landmark move yesterday unveiled its plan to buy six new generation aircraft from US plane maker Boeing at $900 million (Tk 6,200 crore) in a bid to expand routes and capture the growing market share.
সরব দুর্ভিক্ষ চলছে, দুর্নীতি বেড়েছে আড়াইগুণ
ড. কামাল হোসেন বললেন মুমুর্ষু দেশ আইসিইউতে চিকিৎসাধীন
শামছুদ্দীন আহমেদ: দৈনিক ইত্তেফাক আয়োজিত গোলটেবিল বৈঠকে অর্থনীতিবিদ ড. আবুল বারকাত বলেছেন, নিরব নয়, দেশে এখন যথেষ্ট সরব দুর্ভিক্ষ চলছে। ওয়ান ইলেভেনের পর দেশে দুর্নীতির হার ও ঘুষের পরিমাণ বেড়েছে আড়াইগুণ। গণফোরাম সভাপতি ড. কামাল হোসেন বলেছেন, মুমূর্ষু দেশ এখন ইনটেনসিভ কেয়ার ইউনিটে (আইসিইউ) চিকিৎসাধীন। এখনই নাড়াচাড়া করলে রোগীর মতো মারাও যেতে পারে।
Reaffirming American support to Bangladesh's electoral process, US Charge De Affaires Geeta Pasi Sunday laid emphasis on government's dialogues with political parties in the larger interest of holding a credible election.
" Government's dialogue with the political parties is very important towards holding an acceptable election. Also, the political parties have some responsibilities to arrange the election successfully," she said, in continuity of her latest political mediation effort. She was talking to journalists after a meeting with Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami at the Jamaat office behind the closed doors.
The 88th birth anniversary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman will be celebrated here and elsewhere of the country today in a befitting manner and with due respect to the great leader.
Bangladesh Awami League (AL) and its front organisations have chalked out a two-day programme to celebrate the day through holding discussion, among other programmes, on the life and struggling political career of Bangabandhu.
The chief adviser, Fakhruddin Ahmed, on Sunday arrived in London on a three-day official visit after attending the 11th summit of the Organisation of Islamic Conference in Dakar, Senegal.
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police authorities are going to introduce two new initiatives — formation of a special weapon and tactic team to launch drives against armed gangsters, and to make it essential for the hotel managers to keep details of each of the boarders with photographs — within a couple of months to check the increasing number of crimes in the capital.
The interim government is now considering a donor-funded move to turn the state-run Bangladesh Railway into a public limited company, officials said. ‘The government is seriously working on the proposal to turn the loss-making railway into a public limited company,’ the communications secretary, Mohammad Mahabubur Rahman, told reporters in his office on Sunday.
আনোয়ারুল করিম: সেনাসমর্থিত তত্ত্বাবধায়ক সরকারের মডেল স্বল্প সময়ের জন্য ভালো হলেও দীর্ঘমেয়াদে তা গণতন্ত্র ও অর্থনীতির জন্য ভালো নয়। জোর করে রাজনৈতিক নেতৃত্ব তৈরি বা পরিবর্তন করা যায়না। এ মন্তব্য করেছেন ঢাকা সফররত পাকিস্তানের মাসিক পত্রিকা ডিফেন্স জার্নালের প্রধান সম্পাদক ইকরাম উল মজিদ সেহগাল। তিনি বলেন, প্রাক-নির্বাচন পরিস্থিতির দিক থেকে বাংলাদেশ ও পাকিস্তানের অনেক মিল রয়েছে। পাকিস্তানের নির্বাচন বাংলাদেশের জন্য একটি সংকেত হতে পারে।
Military backed interim government in Bangladesh is gradually proceeding with its ultimate plan of planting non-political people as ‘people’s representative’ in order to attain the goal of ultimately depolitizing the country.
Cox’s Bazar: A family of four escaped to Bangladesh from Burma on Monday to apply for refugee status with the UNHCR after the Burmese military authority tried to arrest them for their involvement in the Saffron Revolution, reports one of the family members.
"We have come here to avoid arrest by the authority because I was involved in the Saffron Revolution," said Ma Moe Sanda.
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