PRIYO

Unidentified burglars have taken away valuables worth over Tk 3.5 lakh breaking open the bureau offices of five private television channels in Rajshahi city.

The government is going to change the local government (municipal) law over area demarcation, clearing the way for elections to Dhaka City Corporation, municipalities and union councils, an election commissioner says.

A local government ministry statement signed by its secretary Manzur Hossain reads that the ministry has agreed to resolve the complicated issue.

The Section 16 (1) of the municipality law says ward population must not differ by more than 10 per cent of each other, suggesting that it would require delimitation of the constituencies.

The Anti Corruption Commission on Sunday filed 13 cases against 12 engineers and officials, including the chief engineer, of Chittagong Development Authority and 13 of its contractors for misappropriating project funds.

The government on Sunday decided to recommend quashing of 178 more ‘politically-motivated cases’, mostly against leaders and activists of ruling Awami League, filed between 2001 and 2008.

A two-day meeting senior officials of eight SAARC countries here on Sunday adopted a ‘draft report’ on the charter of democracy for the regional grouping, for consideration by the foreign secretaries, when they meet in December.

The government’s decision not to make ministers’ wealth statements public ‘is a clear violation’ of the election manifesto of the ruling Awami League, cross-section of people believe.

Awami League MP Nurunnabi Chowdhury Shaon is guilty of not keeping with him his pistol, used in the killing of his associate Ibrahim Ahmed, the state minister for law, Quamrul Islam, has said.

President M Zillur Rahman hosted an Iftar party in honour of Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina, Cabinet ministers, Members of Parliament (MPs) and elite of the society at Bangabhaban Sunday, reports BSS.

The ruling Awami League’s acting general secretary, Mahbubul Alam Hanif, has said the party would henceforth devise its political programmes in the light of the ideology of defunct Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League, better known as BKSAL.

Election Commissioner M Sakhawat Hossain has blamed the influence of the political parties for disrupting the execution of the Commission's activities, reports UNB.