report in The Daily Star, Dec 26, 2023Two members of the Criminal Investigation Department along with an accomplice were arrested on Sunday on charges of abducting a man from his residence in Dhaka and withdrawing over Tk 5 lakh from his bank account on October 8. The arrestees are: sub-inspector Rezaul Karim, 39, constable Abu Saied, 32, and Sharif Hossain, 26. A team of detectives arrested them from different areas in a case filed by…
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Report in The Daily Star, Dec 26, 2023Hundreds of RMG workers took to the streets yesterday, protesting the announcement of Crony Tex Sweater Ltd to lay-off workers of the sweater division due to a decline in work orders from foreign buyers. The workers brought out a procession on Dhaka-Munshiganj road in the morning after seeing the notice hanging outside the factory in the BSCIC Industrial Estate in Fatullah area. The notice said the global economic…
report in Prothom Alo, Dec 26, 2023The central office of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party has been under lock and key since 28 October. The party’s temporary and permanent offices also remain closed in all but eight districts across the country. The BNP has been waging anti-government for quite sometimes while the closure of the party offices started following the events of 28 October when their grand rally in Dhaka was foiled and two people including…
by Partha Pratim Bhattacharjee in The Daily Star , Dec 25, 2023The Awami League’s main focus will be on generating employment in order to make Bangladesh a developed nation by 2041, said several leaders involved in drafting of the party’s election manifesto. The party is likely to set a goal of creating 1.5 crore jobs in the next five years, which was also mentioned in the declaration adopted at AL national council in December last…
by Liakat Ali Badal in Dhaka Tribune 25 Dec 2023Jatiya Party (JaPa) Chairman and party candidate for Rangpur-3 GM Quader claimed on Sunday that northern Bangladesh, the Rangpur region in particular, has been facing discrimination and deprivation in both political and development fields for a long time. “The people of Rangpur have always faced discrimination in both politics and development as JaPa Party is the biggest political party of the northern region… the whole northern…
report in Dhaka Tribune 25 Dec 2023,A Dhaka court has set January 1 to deliver its verdict in a case filed against Nobel laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus, chairman of Grameen Telecom, and three others over labour law violation. Dhaka Labour Court 3 judge Sheikh Marina Sultana fixed the date on Sunday. Dr Yunus as well as the three other accused–Grameen Telecom CEO Md Ashraful Hassan, Managing Director M Shahjahan and Trustee Nurjahan Begum–were present in…
report in Prothom Alo, Dec 24, 2023The conflict over electioneering for the upcoming 12th parliamentary election has been escalating with campaigns and rallies of rival candidates being attacked, workers being beaten and threatened. A person was hacked to death in Madaripur’s Kalkini on Saturday. Independent candidate Tahmina claimed the victim to be her party worker. An incident of shooting took place at the house of a worker of an independent candidate in Munshiganj. Clashes took…
report in The Daily Star, Dec 24, 2023BNP leader Abdul Moyeen Khan distributing leaflets in front of Jatiya Press Club yesterday. Photo: CollectedBNP senior leader Abdul Moyeen Khan yesterday said the party will be on the streets until the fall of the Awami League government, which they vowed to bring about peacefully. “We’re carrying out the movement to get back people’s voting rights. We’re on the streets, and we will be there with this goal…
AFP report, Dec 24, 2023KUTUPALONG, Bangladesh: Fleeing brutal violence in Myanmar, Rohingya refugees had hoped to find safety in neighbouring Bangladesh, but many are risking dangerous sea crossings to escape hunger, kidnap and gang violence. Tears well up in Nur Kayes’ eyes as the mother of two speaks of struggling to feed her family in a squalid camp in southeast Bangladesh, where UN funding shortfalls have left refugees without enough to eat. “When neighbours eat…
by Rejaul Karim Byron in Daily Star,Dec 21, 2023Bangladesh’s debt service to revenue ratio is projected to cross the 100 percent mark for the first time owing to rising loans and lower tax and export receipts, highlighting the growing risk to the country’s capacity to repay. The debt service-to-revenue and grants ratio stood at 58.7 percent in the fiscal year of 2020-21 but it surged to 72 percent in FY22 and 71.8 percent in the…
report in Daily Star,Dec 21, 2023Just like twice before, the country is heading towards a “one-sided” parliamentary election, which will deepen the political and economic crisis, said speakers at a discussion yesterday. The election will not be acceptable at home and abroad, they added. “Whether we give it legitimacy or not, the country is heading towards a one-sided election. The results of the vote have been determined. But the election of seat-sharing is nothing new…