10,387 SSC, equivalent examinees absent, 24 expelled
On the first day of this year’s Secondary School Certificate and equivalent examinations on Saturday, 10,387 students were absent and 24 were expelled.
EC rejects Shafin’s nomination, accepts Atiqul’s, four others’
The Election Commission on Saturday rejected the nomination paper of Jatiya Party mayoral aspirant Shafin Ahmed and accepted that of five others, including Atiqul Islam of Awami League, for the by-polls to Dhaka North City Corporation.
BB files case against RCBC
Bangladesh Bank has filed a case in New York against a Philippine bank to recover stolen fund worth $81 million by unidentified hackers from its account at Federal Reserve Bank nearly three years ago.
JOF formally regrets PM’s invitation to tea party
The Jatiya Oikya Front sent a letter to prime minister Sheikh Hasina informing her that the opposition alliance regretted her invitation to a tea party at Ganabhaban on Saturday. The letter was signed by Oikya Front steering committee member and Gono Forum executive president Subrata Chowdhury.
‘Living some sort of captive life,’ bemoans PM
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina lamented her inability to roam around the Amar Ekushey Book Fair freely, saying that she was now living a life full of restrictions.
Home minister meets Hefazat chief Shafi
Home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal met with Hefazat-e-Islam chief Allama Shah Ahmed Shafi at Al-Jamiatul Ahlia Darul Ulum Moinul Islam, also known as Hathazari Madrassah on Friday.
PM urges speaker to be supportive of opposition
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday requested speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury to be supportive of the opposition as Jatiya Party co-chairman GM Quader sought the speaker’s support to make parliament effective.
President urges nat’l consensus
President Abdul Hamid on Wednesday called upon political parties to forge national consensus on core issues like democracy, the rule of the law and continue the socio-economic development efforts. As peace and progress cannot be durable without national unity, president Hamid in his inaugural address in Parliament called upon all the political parties and people irrespective of opinion to forge consensus on the key issues. President Hamid congratulated Sheikh Hasina for taking the oath as prime minister for the fourth term. He also congratulated the Speaker, the deputy speaker, the new MPs as well as the countrymen. The president said both the treasury and the opposition benches should play their due roles to ensure transparency, accountability, human rights, the rule of the law and to realize the dreams of the people. The president said fresh spirit had been infused in various spheres of life after the new government took office. He expressed the hope that the multidimensional initiatives of the government would expedite economic development. Bangladesh’s march on the path of peace, democracy, development and prosperity should be uninterrupted, he said. The president said, ‘The nation will celebrate the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the golden jubilee of country’s independence as a middle-income country.’ The nation expects that Bangladesh would have a developed economy by 2041, he said. In his 158-page prepared speech, the president highlighted the government’s achievements in economy, trade and commerce, agriculture, power, foreign affairs and other spheres. He said that the brightest sons of the soil sacrificed their lives to present the independent Bangladesh to the people. ‘Our responsibility is to speed up pace of development to build Sonar Bangla by uprooting militancy, violence, corruption and drug abuse,’ he said. ‘We have deeply indebted to millions of martyrs of 1971. Irrespective of faith and opinion let’s honour the martyrs by strengthening democracy and socio-economic development,’ he added.
BNP calls for fresh JS polls in six months
Opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party leaders on Wednesday called for fresh parliamentary polls under a neutral government within the next six months cancelling the new parliament formed through ‘fake vote’.
Ex-AL MP’s son jailed for life
A Dhaka court on Wednesday sentenced former member of parliament and Awami League leader Pinu Khan’s son Bakhtiar Alam Rony to life term imprisonment for killing two people at the capital’s Eskaton area on April 13, 2015.
