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by Senior Correspondent in bdnews24.com, Apr 27, 2018 Law Minister Anisul Huq has said it will not be difficult to have Tarique Rahman ‘extradited’ even if he gives up his Bangladesh citizenship, but senior BNP leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain has dismissed it as a ‘wishful thinking’, Huq said the discussions were on to have an extradition treaty with the UK government in place. Mosharraf said Tarique would only come back when the people wanted him…

report in The Daily Star, Apr 27, 2018 Leaders of quota reform movement yesterday issued an ultimatum to the government to publish a gazette notification by this month abolishing the quota system in government jobs as per the prime minister’s announcement. Otherwise, a tougher movement will be launched next month, the leaders said at a press briefing in front of Dhaka University Central Library. “We want a gazette notification on prime minister’s announcement about scrapping…

by Fazlur Rahman Raju in Dhaka Tribune, Apr 25, 2018 at 10:59 PM The Awami League is to finalize its list of potential candidates for the 11th general election early in a bid to avert internal unrest at polls time over the ongoing feuds and clashes among party leaders at all levels. Following the high command’s directives, central leaders have been touring organizational districts nationwide to mediate in disputes before the polls, which are slated…

AUTHOR: Abul Barkat(ISBN: 987-984-34-3235-3, PUBLISHER: Muktobuddhi Prokasona, 2018 Reviewers: Shishir Reza & Matiur Rahman Book by Abul Barkat(ISBN: 987-984-34-3235-3, Muktobuddhi Prokasona): Review By Shishir Reza & Matiur Rahman ( Reza is Environmental Analyst & Associate Member, Bangladesh Economic Association, and Matiur is Research Consultant, Human Development Research Centre) Prof. Abul Barkat, who is known as “people’s economist,” has published a book on fundamentalism in Bangladesh from Muktobuddhi Prokasana. Titled Fundamentalism in Bangladesh: External and Internal…

Prothom Alo, Apr 24, 2018 at 23:35 hrs Ain-O-Salish Kendra (ASK), a national rights body, on Tuesday said that keeping the issue of border killing in India-Bangladesh border talks agenda are not enough, reports UNB. Rather, ASK said, there should be specific promises, policy and effective state-level administrative decision over the use of lethal and non-lethal arms in the border for stopping recurrence of the border killings, torture and harassment. The ASK has given its…

report in Prothom Alo, Apr 23, 2018 at 18:53 hrs Sushashoner Jonno Nagorik (Shujan), a civic platform, on Monday stressed on the need for army deployment in the next general election due late this year. Speaking at a roundtable at National Press Club, Shujan leaders said the authorities concerned should take the media reports about the election commission (EC) into cognizance otherwise it will be hard to establish people’s rights to franchise, reports UNB. Executive…

by Senior Correspondent on bdnews24.com, Apr 23, 2018 at 16:10 hrs The BNP has rejected State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam’s claim that Tarique Rahman has submitted his Bangladeshi passport. The party’s Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has also threatened legal action over the claim. “The state minister for foreign affairs lied completely,” Rizvi said at a news conference on Monday. “I challenge them to produce the Bangladeshi passport of BNP Acting…

report in The Daily Star, Apr 24, 2018 The trial run of a Bangladesh-India-Nepal bus service began yesterday in what is seen as a major development in cross border transport service among the three nations. Two buses carrying around 45 delegates from the three countries and Asian Development Bank left the BRTC International Depot at Motijheel in Dhaka around 9:30am. The delegation led by Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) Chairman Farid Ahmed Bhuiyan will reach…

by Arifur Rahman Rabbi in Dhaka Tribune, Apr 23, 2018 A man has been shot dead and at least five others sustained bullet wounds in a turf war between two rival Awami League factions at Bhatara’s Beraid Union in Dhaka. The incident took place in front of Crown Cement factory on the bank of Balu River under Bhatara police station around 4:30pm on Sunday, police said. The deceased was identified as Kamruzzaman Dukhu, 38, brother…

by Rejaul Karim Byron and Wasim Bin Habib in The Daily Star, Apr 22, 2018 Ahead of the national elections scheduled for December, the government is going to take up a Tk 7,595 crore project for constructing madrasa buildings in all the constituencies. Under the two-year project, 300 MPs would get allocations for the construction of five-storey buildings at six madrasas in each electoral area, said planning ministry officials. A total of 2,000 MPO-enlisted madrasas…