Staff Correspondent : Chief adviser to the interim government Prof Muhammad Yunus’ Special Assistant Professor Dr M Aminul Islam, who was in-charge of the ministry of education with the rank of state minister, resigned today from his post. “The resignation letter of Professor Dr M Aminul Islam has been accepted by the president which will be effective immediately,” said a notification issued here this evening by the Cabinet Division. In November last year, Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus appointed three special assistants including Aminul with the rank of state minister to assist advisers in-charge of the ministries of Home, Health…
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Staff Correspondent : National Consensus Commission Vice-Chairman and Constitutional Reform Commission Chief Professor Dr Ali Riaz today expressed his optimism that more specific steps will be taken regarding the elections very soon. “Chief Adviser Professor Dr. Muhammad Yunus has made it clear that election will be held in December and the government has reiterated it multiple times. Personally, I hope that concrete steps will be taken regarding this matter very soon,” he told a press conference. The National Consensus Commission (NCC) organized the press conference at the LD Hall of the National Parliament here. Ali Riaz said there is no…
Staff Correspondent : The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) today approved charge sheet in six cases against ousted prime minister and Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina, her sister Sheikh Rehana and their four family members on charge of misusing power to obtain six 10-katha plots at Purbachal New Town Project. The charge sheets were approved by the three-member commission headed by ACC Chairman Dr Abdul Momen at its headquarters, Director General (DG) Prevention Md Akhter Hossain told the journalists. The four other family members are- Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy and daughter Saima Wazed Putul, Sheikh Rehana’s son Radwan Mujib Siddiq…
DJ Desk : When Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus flew back to Bangladesh in August, he was greeted by bleak scenes. The streets were still slick with blood, and the bodies of more than 1,000 protesters and children were piled up in morgues, riddled with bullets fired by police. Sheikh Hasina had just been toppled by a student-led revolution after 15 years of authoritarian rule. She fled the country in a helicopter as civilians, seeking revenge for her atrocities, ransacked her residence, reports UK-based The Guardian today. At 84, Prof Yunus – an economist who won a Nobel prize for…
DJ Desk : Australian utilities raced Tuesday to reconnect more than 120,000 homes and businesses still blacked out by gales and floods that bashed the east coast. Cyclone Alfred, which hovered just offshore before making landfall as a tropical low on Saturday, battered a 400-kilometre (250-mile) stretch of coast for five days. The wild weather claimed one life when a 61-year-old man driving a four-wheel-drive pickup was swept off a bridge into a flooded river Friday. The wind and rain have since eased across the coastline straddling Queensland and New South Wales but swathes of the country remained without power.…
DJ Desk : Ukraine will present the United States on Tuesday with a plan for a partial ceasefire with Russia, hoping to restore support from its key benefactor, which under President Donald Trump has demanded concessions to end the three-year war. The talks in Saudi Arabia will be the most senior since a disastrous White House meeting on February 28, when Trump berated Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky for purported ingratitude. Since Trump’s dressing down of Zelensky, Washington has suspended military aid to Ukraine as well as intelligence sharing and access to satellite imagery in a bid to force it to…
US President Donald Trump assumed holding a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. While en route from Florida to Washington, President Trump addressed reporters’ questions about meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. “I have a very good relationship with President Xi, very good. And at some point I’ll meet with him,” Trump replied. He was also asked whether to expect a deal to sell TikTok soon. “Probably. We’re dealing with four different groups, and a lot of people want to [buy TikTok], and it’s up to me to decide,” he stated. In February, Trump expressed confidence that a new trade…
Staff Correspondent : Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Adviser Dr. Asif Nazrul today categorically said that the government was firm to prevent violence against women, torture and anarchic activities in the country. “Violence, torture and rape that are being committed against women in Bangladesh in no way acceptable and will not be accepted in any way,” he said at a media briefing following law and order meeting at his ministry in presence of Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus this afternoon. Everyone in this government and its administration is determined to take all administrative measures to ensure justice in these cases…
Staff Correspondent : Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus today expressed dissatisfaction over the stalling of the two surface water projects for long 10 years and said over extraction of groundwater is putting the country’s environment at grave risk. “We are putting the environment at grave risk by withdrawing groundwater every day. Despite the fact that there were ways to come out of the crisis, this work has not been accomplished for so many years,” he told a meeting here. The Chief Adviser held the meeting with the authorities concerned to know the progress of the ‘Water Treatment Plant Construction Project…
