Hannah Ellis-Petersen : It was earlier this month, as protests swept Bangladesh and bodies lay on the streets, that prime minister Sheikh Hasina hastily boarded a helicopter. She was unaccompanied by any political aides and did not tell any of her senior ministers she was leaving. In a matter of hours, she touched down in neighbouring India, where she has been ever since. The protests that led to Hasina’s downfall had quickly escalated from student demonstrations on campuses to a...
City Desk : Advisor of the interim government on power, energy and mineral resources Muhammad Fouzul Kabir Khan on Thursday said the interim government would follow open tendering procedure to ensure transparency in all procurement of power and energy sector. “The Public Procurement Act 2006 and Public Procurement Rules 2008 will be followed in all procurements in the power and energy sector,” he told a delegation of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) at his ministry conference room. Country Director of...
BSS : Anti-Discrimination Student Movement leader Sarjis Alam on Thursday issued a warning against those who will attempt to make a counter revolution in the country, saying their existence will be wiped out. “We want to warn that if they even make a little attempt to make a counter-revolution, they will no longer exist, with which they can stand in Bangladesh even 100 years later,” he said, pointing that they were receiving information from different quarters that Awami League, Chhatra...
City Desk : Social Welfare Advisor Sharmin S. Murshid on Sunday called upon all concerned not to be rushed in appointing people in the vacant positions of different sectors of the country.“We will capitalize the merit in reforming the ministry as well as to rebuild the country. The social welfare ministry will be running on merit”, the advisor told this while addressing the monthly coordination meeting of the ministry, reports BSS. The advisor said, “Mutual understanding is a must for...
City Desk : ‘Ganosanghati Andolan, a progressive political party, will publish a list of those who were martyred and injured or got missing during the student-people mass uprising from August 23 to 31, tomorrow. At the initiative of Mohammadpur Thana Committee of ‘Ganosanghati Andolan’, the list will be published in a programme at 3:30pm at Bengali Medium High School on 1/2 Nurjahan Road in city’s Mohammadpur area, a press release said on Thursday. With Mohammadpur Thana unit Organizer of ‘Ganosamhati...
City Desk : Social Welfare Advisor Sharmin S Murshid on Monday said the government will rehabilitate all the injured of the anti-discrimination student movement that launched on the maiden of last month. “The social welfare ministry will do everything for rehabilitation of the injured persons who participated in the anti-discrimination student movement from the space of morality”, she said, reports BSS. The social welfare Advisor made this comment while visiting the injured persons of the nation-wide anti-discrimination movement at the...
UNB : Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Adviser Dr Asif Nazrul on Saturday said that the interim government will remain as long as there is coordination between the people’s desire for reform and the desire of the political parties for election. He came up with the remark while taking charge of the office at the Secretariat. Asked about the tenure of the interim government, the law adviser said, “There has been no decision about the tenure yet. Please keep two...
City Desk : The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has announced a 100-day action plan, which includes initiatives to reform the pay structure for journalists. The announcement was made by Nahid Islam, Adviser to the Ministry, during a briefing at the ministry on Thursday (September 12). Key initiatives in the plan include the formation of an Independent Media Commission, the enactment of the Media Workers (Conditions of Employment) Act, and the Broadcasting Act. Additionally, reforms are planned for existing laws,...
Times of India : India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) submitted a remand note to a trial court seeking judicial custody of Sanjay Roy, the lone suspect arrested in the R G Kar Hospital rape-murder case. The remand note, presented on Friday, makes no mention of “gang rape” or the possible involvement of more than one person in the crime that took place on August 9.The parents of the victim, a postgraduate medical student, have alleged that their daughter was...
City Desk : Adviser of the interim government for the Ministries of Labour and Employment and Youth and Sports Asif Mahmud Sajeeb Bhuiyan said the mass upsurge has come for eliminating the long-lasting fascist system.“After necessary reformation, the interim government will hand over power to an elected government,” he said while talking to the journalists after inaugurating the newly established National Occupational Health and Safety Research and Training Institute (NOHSTRI) here on Tuesday, reports BSS. The adviser said massive rumors...
City Desk : BNP Standing Committee member Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan has warned of a potential conspiracy surrounding the National Mourning Day on August 15, asserting that “awakened students will confront any such plot.” He made these remarks while visiting students receiving treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on Tuesday, reports media. Dr Moin said: “The interim government has been formed through the choice of the students and the people. As a result, they will fulfil their responsibilities properly....