Anwar, Aman, Mintoo surrender before courts
Senior Bangladesh Nationalist Party leaders MK Anwar, Amanullah Aman and Abdul Awal Mintoo surrendered before separate Dhaka courts in separate cases of arson attacks and vandalism.
Poorly-coordinated policies, political instability affecting investment
Experts and businesses at a discussion on Saturday said lack of political stability and poorly-coordinated government policies were the major problems for boosting the country’s investment. They said persistent uncertainty on the political front, increasing corruption and outdated policies were hurting the investment scenario and an immediate government attention to the issues was needed to achieve 8 per cent growth.
No change in BNP’s stand on election-time neutral govt: Khaleda
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson, Khaleda Zia, on Saturday said that her party had not changed its stand on holding of election under a neutral government. ‘We want to contest election, but that election has to be held under a neutral government,’ she said at an opinion exchange meeting with newly elected BNP-backed office bearers of Rajshahi Bar Association at her Gulshan office.
AUG 15 KILLINGS : Objective was to take revenge for defeat of Pakistan: Hasina
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Saturday said that the main objective of August 15, 1975 killings was to take revenge for the defeat of the Pakistani occupation forces in the War of Independence and for the establishment of a new country, Bangladesh.
LAND SWAP : National flag hoisted in 111 enclaves
Local administrations in Lalmonirhat, Kurigram, Panchagarh and Nilphamari on Saturday morning hoisted the national flag and played the national anthem in 111 enclaves, which became the integral part of Bangladesh from midnight past Friday, to mark the land swap with India.
Cyclone Komen makes landfall
Southeast region remain inundated
Resolve crisis of Swan Garments: workers’ leaders
Politicians and trade union leaders on Friday at a discussion meeting in the city called on the Awami League led government to take immediate steps to resolve crisis of the Swan Garments.
ENCLAVE SWAP: People celebrate freedom at midnight
Enclave dwellers both old and young, men and women celebrated ‘freedom from confined life’ of 68 years in a festive mood by lighting 68 candles in each enclave and hoisting the Bangladesh national flag at midnight past Friday, the very moment when 162 such territories in Bangladesh and India ceased to exist.
Those burnt people to death won’t be spared: PM
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Thursday reiterated that those hooligans of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-Jamaat-e-Islami who have burnt people to death and injured and damaged vehicles in the name of hartal and blockade would not be spared.
3 killed as Komen crosses Ctg coast
Houses damaged, croplands, fisheries projects washed away
