Search committee seeks five names from 31 parties each
The six-member search committee on Election Commission reconstitution on Saturday sought five names as potential election commissioners from each of the 31 political parties that held discussion with president Abdul Hamid on the much talked-about issue.
Dhaka won’t bow to outside pressures, says Menon
Workers Party of Bangladesh on Saturday said the country is not in a position that it would bow to the illicit interference by others into its domestic affairs.
Torture not to deter us from anti-Rampal movement: Anu
Member secretary of National Committee to Protect Oil-Gas, Mineral Resources and Power-Port Anu Muhammad on Saturday said the government would not be able to stop their movement against the Rampal power project through resorting to torture.
PM takes rickshaw-van ride in Tungipara
The residents of Tungipara in Gopalganj saw a rare as well as unprecedented scenario in the late morning of the day when prime minister Sheikh Hasina on a local rickshaw-van along with her family members had a round-about visit at her ancestral village to see for herself the condition of the villagers side by side enjoying the natural beauty.
BNP says partisan, AL claims neutral
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Friday said that the ‘controversial’ search committee could never form a neutral Election Commission while the ruling Awami League urged its key political opponent to keep confidence in the president.
Pvt univs unmoved amid deadlines
Most of the private universities display complete disregard for the law requiring them to have permanent campuses in seven
No case recorded against cops
No case was filed till Friday night against police officials for torturing two journalists of private television channel ATN News on Thursday when they were filming cops’ action against protesters against Rampal power plant project during general strike.
BNP accuses govt of giving ‘bond’ to India over Rampal project
Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday alleged that the government was desperate to implement the Rampal power plant project near the Sunderbans as it gave India a ‘bond’ to execute it.
Govt plans to introduce scouting at primary schools: PM
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said her government has decided to introduce scouting at primary schools as part of an intensified effort to promote the youth movement in the country to grow up future generation as efficient manpower.
PROTEST AGAINST RAMPAL POWER PLANT, Dozens wounded in police attack
More than 50 people, including two journalists, were injured as police attacked pickets, fired teargas shells and rubber bullets, sprayed hot water using water cannon and charged baton during the half-day general strike in the capital on Thursday.
