Vice-Chairman of National Consensus Commission Prof Ali Riaz today said the commission wants to give a clear and structured form to the aspirations that emerged from the July–August 2024 mass uprising through a national charter. “We want to reflect the spirit of national consensus in a national charter so that every political party can play a role in realising its goals and objectives in future,” he said in a dialogue with Bangladesher Samajtantrik Dal (BSD) in the city. Commission members Justice Md Emdadul Haque, Dr Badiul Alam Majumdar, Safar Raj Hossain, Dr Iftekharuzzaman, and Dr Md Ayub Miah and the…
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The Trump administration is seeking to deport a Harvard scientist to her home country of Russia, which she fled fearing political persecution, her lawyer told AFP Wednesday. Kseniia Petrova, a researcher at Harvard Medical School, was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in February upon returning to the United States from a vacation in France. According to a criminal complaint filed February 16, Petrova was stopped by customs officers at a Boston airport for allegedly failing to declare biological samples she had in her luggage. She was subsequently told her visa was revoked and she would be sent back…
The Supreme Court today started hearing on a leave to appeal petition filed against the High Court judgment that acquitted all the people convicted by the lower court in murder and explosives substances act cases filed over the grenade attack on an Awami League rally in the capital’s Bangabandhu Avenue on August 21, 2004. A six-member Appellate Division bench of the apex Court headed by Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed started hearing the plea this morning. Additional Attorney Generals Mohammad Abdul Jabber Bhuiyan, Mohammad Arshadur Rouf and Aneek Rushd Haque argued for the state plea. The High Court on December…
The interim government instituted Health Sector Reform Commission (HSRC) to establish an institute to ensure a safe and respectful environment for women, children and adolescents. The HSRC on Monday submitted its report to Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus at his official Jamuna residence suggesting the formation of National Women’s Health Institute for overall healthcare and well-being of the target groups alongside outlining various other proposals. Officials concerned said the commission headed by Diabetic Association of Bangladesh president Professor Dr AK Azad Khan, proposed 32 key recommendations categorizing them as short and medium-term reforms. They said report laid an extra emphasis…
(BSS) – The Ministry of Finance today hoped that the country would receive around $3.3 billion in total loan support from the international development partners by this June including fourth and fifth tranches of $1.3 billion from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In a statement issued today, the ministry said that these funds, allocated as budget support, would help strengthen Bangladesh’s foreign currency reserves and stabilise the exchange rate. Among the IMF’s key policy recommendations related to the loan are reforms in revenue management and in exchange rate regime. The statement said the IMF’s fourth review was successfully completed and…
Bangladesh today pledged to deploy specialized military and police units, enhance female participation and introduce advanced technology solutions to strengthen United Nations peacekeeping operations. Foreign Adviser Md Touhid Hossain made the announcement while delivering Bangladesh’s national statement at the UN Peacekeeping Ministerial held in Berlin, Germany. According to a foreign ministry press release issued here, Bangladesh’s pledges included Deployment of specialized military and police units; ensuring 15 percent female participation in police contingents; implementation of an AI-integrated camp surveillance and response system; and installation of 1.8 MW solar panels in existing UN missions to support environmental sustainability. These commitments reaffirm…
Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus today urged students to dream of building a new world. “We have the capacity to build the new that we want,” he said while delivering his speech at the 5th Convocation Ceremony of Chittagong University (CU) on the university’s central play ground this afternoon. In his convocation speech, Prof Yunus said: “We will be able to build the world the way we want to build”. But everyone has to have a dream about what kind of environment and society he or she wants to establish, he added. Recalling the background of the establishment of Grameen…
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The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has been split to improve efficiency and broaden the country’s tax base, the interim government said today. “The interim government has announced a major structural reform: the dissolution of the National Board of Revenue (NBR), to be replaced by two distinct entities under the Ministry of Finance – the Revenue Policy Division and the Revenue Management Division,” said a statement issued by the Chief Adviser’s Press Wing this afternoon. “This decision aims to separate tax policy-making from tax administration to improve efficiency, reduce conflicts of interest, and broaden the country’s tax base,” it read.…
United Nations relief chief Tom Fletcher on Tuesday called on the UN Security Council to take action “to prevent genocide” in Gaza, delivering a scathing account of Israel’s actions in the Palestinian territory. Fletcher, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, demanded that Israel lift its aid blockade on Gaza, where its offensive has killed tens of thousands and reduced much of the enclave to rubble. “For those killed and those whose voices are silenced: what more evidence do you need now?” asked Fletcher. “Will you act — decisively — to prevent genocide and to ensure respect for international humanitarian law?”…
