The government has decided to deploy over 500,000 security personnel across the country to ensure peaceful holding of elections in 481 upazila parishads on January 22. Sources said the home ministry has already laid out a security plan for the polls and members of Bangladesh Rifles (BDR), coastguard, Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and Armed Police […]
BNP to join parliament on first day
BNP lawmakers-elect last night in a meeting decided to take oath and join the first session of the parliament. However, party sources said the BNP lawmakers-elect might attend the first day’s proceedings of the ninth parliament. "We shall join the first session of the parliament for the sake of democracy, the country’s interest, and to […]
Hopes, goals and ambitions In conversation with Close Up 1 champion Liza
"And the winner is…Liza." "When I heard my name being announced, it took a while to register. I went running to the MC Putul Apu and asked her if she was calling me,” said Sania Sultana Liza, recalling the moment when she was crowned the winner of "Close Up 1 2008". The grand finale was […]
Hasina readies cabinet portfolios
Prime Minister-elect Sheikh Hasina has today nearly readied the list of her new cabinet, party sources told The Daily Star. It has been learned that in her new cabinet Motia Chowdhury will hold the food ministry while Obaidul Quader commerce, Syed Ashraful Islam LGRD, AK Khandker foreign, Col (retd) Faruk Khan social welfare, Dipu Moni […]
Impartial anti-graft drive to continue Hasina tells visiting UN team
Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the new government to be formed by her party-led alliance will continue the ongoing anti-graft drive to build a country free of corruption. She also said they want to make the next parliament effective and for that the post of the deputy speaker as well as some […]
Khaleda unveils BNP’s poll manifesto, promises changes in CG system
Unveiling election manifesto with a slogan ‘save the country’ ‘save the people’, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia today said her party will bring amendment to the caretaker government system and will scrap the Special Powers Act 1974 if voted to the power. "Amendment will be brought to the caretaker government system after detailed discussions in parliament […]
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