UN asks people to give $1 each for Syrian refugees
The World Food Program launched an unusual campaign Wednesday to raise $1 contributions from 64 million people around the world so it can restore food vouchers to Syrian refugees who won’t be getting any UN help in December.
Derailment in Comilla disrupts Dhaka-Ctg-Sylhet train services
Train communications on Chittagong-Dhaka and Chittagong-Sylhet routes were suspended as two wheels of a passenger coach of an inter-city train derailed at Jangalia near Mynamati rail station under Sadar Dakkhin upazila in Comilla on Thursday morning.
Corruption increased in Bangladesh: TI
Corruption has increased in the country again in 2014, showed Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index 2014, released globally on Wednesday.
Jabbar verdict any day
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on completion of trial of absconding war crimes accused, former Jatiya Party MP, engineer Abdul Jabbar on Wednesday announced that the verdict would be delivered later.
China to launch 50 bln yuan fund to fight pollution
China plans to launch a 50 billion yuan ($8.13 billion) environmental protection fund in stepped-up efforts to reduce widespread pollution, the official China Securities Journal reported on Wednesday.
Egyptian court sentences 185 to death for attack on police
An Egyptian judge sentenced 185 people to death on Tuesday over an attack on a police station on the outskirts of Cairo in 2013 in which police officers were killed.
Mojaheed’s death sentence appeal hearing January 14
A five member Appellate Division bench headed by the chief justice set the date after Attorney General, Mahabubey Alam sought a date for hearing on the Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general, Mojaheed’s appeal.
Promotions to all levels in admin under way
Many officials are now found busy trying to get ‘blessings of policymakers’ in civil bureaucracy as the government has initiated a fresh move to give promotions to all levels from the rank of deputy secretary to secretary, according to officials.
All ministries to sign performance agreements with cabinet division to increase efficiency
The government in a frantic move is seeking to boost the activities of its entire machinery and increase accountability and decided to strike performance agreements with all ministries amid weakening governance that hit its popularity base.
Trial of 3 Bagerhat war crimes suspects begins
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 began trial of three Bagerhat war crimes suspects, Sirajul Haque allies Siraj Master, Abdul Latif and Akram Hossain, on Tuesday.
