Friday, March 29, 2024

Shuktara take on Feni today

Club Cup Final Shuktara take on Feni today Shuktara Jubo Sangsad of Narayanganj will lock horns with Feni Soccer Club in the final match of the Bashundhara Champions Club Cup football tournament at the Cox’s Bazar Stadium today. The final match of the country’s first ever district champions club teams will kick-off at 3:15 pm. ... Read more

Muhith spells new formula

Plans to offer tax rebate for honest taxpayers, money-whitening at fixed rate of tax In the face of intense controversy over whitening of black money, Finance Minister AMA Muhith yesterday came up with a new formula to do justice to white money holders. Black money holders would be allowed to make investments by paying a ... Read more

Remuneration of MPs to go up

Allowance and emoluments of the members of parliament (MPs) will go up further, as Speaker Advocate Abdul Hamid believes that the present remuneration structure is not enough for them. “Each of the MPs will get an office in the capital and one or more offices in their respective constituencies at upazila level. Each of them ... Read more

Strong information commission sought

Govt vows to implement RTI law The government is committed to implementing the Right to Information (RTI) law, however challenging the task may be, ministers said in response to advice from members of civil society and NGOs at a conference yesterday. The civil society members and NGO officials also emphasised the need for a strong ... Read more

BNP frustrated at court ruling

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Sunday expressed its frustration at the High Court rule which said Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and not Ziaur Rahman, had proclaimed the independence of Bangladesh in 1971. The party’s vice-chairman MK Anwar at a briefing in the party chief’s office at Gulshan at night said, ‘If courts continue to pass judgements

Speaker starts allotting office rooms to MPs in JS complex

The speaker of Jatiya Sangsad, Abdul Hamid, on Sunday started allotting office rooms to the lawmakers in the parliament complex pledging more privileges for the legislators in the coming days. ‘We will try to increase perks and privileges for the lawmakers in course of time so that they can do their work easily,’ the speaker ... Read more

JS body to probe DCC corruption

A parliamentary sub-committee was formed yesterday to investigate alleged corruption of Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) Mayor Sadeque Hossain Khoka and others of the local government body. The parliamentary standing committee on LGRD ministry formed the four-member probe body to enquire into the allegations it received against the incumbent mayor and other senior officials of the

HC verdict not final: Moudud

BNP standing committee member Barrister Moudud Ahmed MP has said that the High Court judgment given yesterday on who proclaimed independence is not final, as the issue raised will be finally settled by the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court. Giving his reaction over cell phone to the news agency yesterday afternoon, the former Law ... Read more

Mayhem over illegal toll at Buriganga Bridge-2

50 hurt as CNG drivers, cadres clash for 6 hours Several hundred CNG-run auto-rickshaw drivers and hired cadres of the leaseholder of Buriganga Bridge-2 engaged in a series of clashes for six hours over collecting toll, injuring at least 50 people. Transport movement to the south and southwestern districts of the country was suspended during ... Read more

JMB took part in Kansat movement

A member tells The Daily Star In a sensational revelation, a member of Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) has said the militant group took part in the Kansat movement in April 2006 because they felt betrayed by the then BNP-led coalition government. The JMB part-timer or gayeri ehsar, interviewed by The Daily Star, also said the ... Read more

Eviction lost in confusion

The tenth day of the ongoing eviction drive against the encroachers of river Shitalakhya went almost wasted yesterday because of confusion and dubious survey by the authorities and their contradictory stance. Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) and Narayanganj district administration started the anti-encroachment drive at

Hasnat lands in jail

A Dhaka court yesterday sent Awami League leader Abu Hasnat Abdullah to jail after he surrendered before the court in a tax evasion case in which he was earlier sentenced to nine years’ imprisonment in absentia. Judge AK Roy of the Special Court-2 passed the order when Hasnat along with his lawyers appeared before the ... Read more

Ctg arms haul Court order to complete TI parade for Liakat

A court here on Sunday ordered to complete Test Identification (TI) Parade for detained former Deputy Director (DD) of the National Security Intelligence (NSI) Major (Retd.) Liakat Hossain, a prime suspect in hiring trucks introducing him as Abul Hossain in the sensational ten truckloads of arms and ammunition haul case in

30,000 people in Cox’s Bazar are in fear of eviction

June 21: More than 30 thousand people of Cox’s Bazar town are in fear of eviction. People of Nazirartek, Kutubdiapara, Fadhanardail, and Charpara slums adjacent to Cox’s Bazar Airport are in fear of eviction following a visit by the members of JS standing committee on Civil Aviation and Tourism to Cox’s Bazar from June-18 to ... Read more

Country has 2.65 million child workers

The number of child workers aged between five and 14 in the country is 2.65 million, according to Bureau of Statistics survey of 2002-3 which is the latest survey report. Of them, 0.56 million children are engaged in risky jobs, Labour and Employment Minister Engineer Khondakar Mosharraf Hossain said in reply to a question asked ... Read more

2 sisters acid-burnt over marriage refusal

Two sisters were acid-burned in the early hours Saturday in a sequel to their parents’ refusal to a marriage proposal about one and a half years ago. Asadullah Akash, a pickup truck helper of Bogra, threw acid on Mahmuda Akhter Shimu, 16, and her sister Masuma Akhter Shantona, 25, in Kishoreganj upazila, Nilphamari. Both the ... Read more

Bangabandhu is proclaimer of Independence : HC

The High Court on Sunday acknowledged Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as the proclaimer of 1971 Independence, declaring illegal the state-published documents naming Ziaur Rahman as its proclaimer. In a landmark judgment, a High Court bench comprising Justice ABM Khairul Haque and Justice Momtazuddin Ahmed ruled that Bangabandhu proclaimed the Independence of Bangladesh immediately before his ... Read more

BNP wants independent experts in Tipai team

BNP yesterday made it clear that it would not be part of the all party parliamentary team which is expected to visit the proposed Tipaimukh Dam project site in India if national level experts are not included in that committee. The BNP proposed five names of experts for inclusion in the team. They are Dr ... Read more

Cross digital divide to reach digital Bangladesh

Mobile operators told at The Daily Star roundtable The mobile industry in Bangladesh, which is still lagging at the bottom rung of tele-density in the region, is at the crossroads of growth where the huge untapped rural market beacons it. But the challenge is strong enough as the cost of owning a mobile set and ... Read more

Power outage turns severe

DST fails to improve supply situation Power outage turned severe across the country on Sunday and the daylight saving time introduced midnight past Friday failed to create any positive impact on the power supply situation. Most city areas faced outages for six to eight hours on the day, for one to two hours at a ... Read more