Apologise or face the music, MPs to TIB
MPs from across the board on Monday lambasted the Transparency International Bangladesh for undermining parliament by terming it ‘stage for puppet show’. They also demanded the TIB apologise for its ‘derogatory’ remarks on parliament saying it is tantamount to sedition.
Online newspapers asked to get registered
The government on Monday asked publishers of all online newspapers to get registered with the Press Information Department under the information ministry.
Non-MPO teachers’ protest steps into third week
Non-MPO teachers’ sit-in agitation for realising the demand of inclusion of their educational institutions in the monthly pay order system stepped into third week on Monday. Teachers continued their sit-in programme for the 15th day on the day to press home their demands.
Children to be kept out of risky jobs
Speakers at a views-exchange meeting here on Monday underscored the need for stopping children from engaging in hazardous and risky jobs and ensuring equal rights to underprivileged children.
Rajon’s father says he was threatened, offered bribe
Samiul Alam Rajon’s father Sheikh Azizul Islam on Sunday expressed anxiety over security of his family members.
SAMIUL, RAKIB KILLINGS : 6 sentenced to death
Courts on Sunday sentenced six persons to death in separate cases of torturing and killing 13-year old Samiul Alam Rajon in Sylhet and 12-year-old Rakib Hawlader in Khulna earlier this year. The brutal killings of the two minor boys, who earned their living, caused huge outrage at home and abroad.
Businesses’ loan appetite sluggish amid uncertainty
The private sector credit growth inched up in September from that of the previous month, but still remained lower than the target set in the monetary policy as the businesspeople maintained a ‘wait-and-see’ approach amid political uncertainty.
AL shuts doors to BNP, Jamaat
The ruling Awami League has closed its doors to Bangladesh Nationalist Party and Jamaat-e-Islami activists apparently to stop their influx into the ruling party taking refuge to avoid repression.
Govt under pressure to admit IS existence: PM
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on said on Sunday that recent killings and attacks on foreigners, publishers and bloggers were pre-planned and her government was under tremendous pressure to acknowledge that militants of Islamic State existed in Bangladesh.
Export earnings from India surpass China in July-Oct
Bangladesh’s export earnings from India surpassed that of from China in four months of the current fiscal year 2015-2016, riding mainly on robust growth in export of raw jute to the neighbouring country, according to Export Promotion Bureau data.
