The Law and Religious Affairs Advisor and three other advisors formed a committee on their own Mar. 27 to review the Women Development Policy 2008 to see if anything goes against Islamic rules. Human rights bodies queried their right to form a committee, since the policy was adopted Mar. 5 by the Advisory Council. […]
The 37-storey City Centre in Motijhil has developed large cracks in its front wall and a side wall on th ground floor has curved in alarmingly. Police on Mar. 29 evacuated all who live and work there. The building is to be an office block and a 10- storey car park. It is a joint […]
The ACC okayed the charge sheet against Tarique Rahman and his wife for concealing wealth worth Tk 2,16,48,087 in their financial statements and amassing an amount of Tk 2,74, 93, 087 beyond their known sources of income. There has been criticism over the slow progress of the case, since it was already filed six months […]
A Chittagong court sentenced four Islami Chhatra Shibir activists to death on Mar. 27 and three to life imprisonment for killing eight people on July 12, 2000, including six Bangladesh Chhatra League activists in Bahadderhat, Chittagong. The court also fined them Tk 50,000 each or in default another extra year in jail. Thirteen accused were […]
Special Court 7 on Mar. 27 sentenced businessman Giasuddin Mamun to 10 years and his wife to 3 years r.i. for amassing a huge amount of illegal wealth. He was also fined 10 lakh or one more year if he defaults. The Tk. 141,74 crore assets are to be confiscated. His wealth reached this huge […]
A full bench of the SC upheld the High Court judgement quashing two graft cases against Khaleda Zia by refusing govt. leave to appeal against it. They gave as a reason that govt. clearly delayed many years in filing the leave to appeal. One case was filed in 1996 for illegal appointment of 746 sub-inspectors […]
The law adviser on Mar. 20 stated that govt. will form a National Security Council (NSC) to make decisions “not only regarding law and order but also about other national crises like disasters and food security issues.” The home ministry is to prepare a draft of the ordinance.
The main criticism is that NSCs are […]
Presently ex-lawmakers are occupying about 160 NAM (Non-aligned Movement) apartments in Dhaka. The home ministry sent several letters to the Parliament Secretariat to cancel the allotments and re-allot the apartments, but the PS gave no response. The ministry began renting out 90 vacant apartments for Tk 12,000 a month and Tk 15, 000 per month, […]
Two Sub-inspectors, one from Paltan P.S., the other from Pallabi P.S., were the leaders of a gang who met Ripon Mia, a Bangladeshi working in Saudi Arabia, who brought 86,000 Saudi riyal from his bari in Kishorganj on Mar. 21 to cash into taka in Dhaka. They forced him into their microbus and drove him […]
This year there has been a bumper crop of potatoes in the Munshiganj area but only the middlemen will profit from it. As usual they have bought up early all the available space in the 74 cold storages, creating an artificial shortage and forcing the farmers to sell to them at below producer costs. Potatoes […]