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NBR seeks  S Alam, family’s bank accounts

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has sought details of the bank accounts of industrialist Mohammad Saiful Alam, popularly known as S Alam, and his family members. In a letter issued on Wednesday, the Tax Zone-15 of the revenue board asked 91 banks and non-bank financial institutions to provide details of accounts of S Alam's wife Farzana Parvin, mother Chemon Ara Begum, and brother Abdullah Hasan. Besides, the revenue board also sought details of the bank accounts of their parents, children, sisters, other fa...

Ensure full autonomy of Bangladesh Bank

The Bangladesh Bank Officers Welfare Council today called upon the interim government to amend the Bangladesh Bank Order 1972 for ensuring complete autonomy of the central bank. They made the demand in a memorandum submitted to the finance adviser of the interim government and later informed journalists about the demand in a press conference at the central bank headquarters in the city. The council recommended that Bangladesh Bank should be kept free from political interference and influen...

Hasina charged with murder for firing from helicopter

Another murder case was filed against 16 persons, including former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, as a fourth grade student died in random firing from helicopter over the protesters at city's Mohammadpur on July 19. Victim's uncle Abdullah Abu Sayeed Bhuiyan filed this case in Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Rajesh Chowdhuri's court today. The court accepted the statement of the plaintiff and ordered Mohammadpur Police Station to register the complaint as a first information report (FIR). The other accused in the c...

To probe atrocities UN team due next week

The United Nations (UN) is sending a fact finding team here next week to probe atrocities committed in Bangladesh during the Student Revolution in July and early this week, said an official release of the chief adviser's press wing. UN human rights Chief Volker Turk announced the move as he called Chief Adviser to the Interim Government of Bangladesh Professor Muhammad Yunus late Wednesday, it said. This will be the first time the UN is sending a fact finding mission in Bangladesh since its independence in 1971 t...

UN to begin probe into killings of protesters

UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk has informed Bangladesh's interim government Chief Adviser, Professor Muhammad Yunus, that the UN will soon launch an investigation into the killings of protesters during the recent "student revolution." In a phone call on Wednesday, Türk conveyed that a team of UN experts would visit Bangladesh shortly to initiate the investigation. Professor Yunus expressed his gratitude to Türk and his long-time friend, UN Secretary-General António Guterres, for their support of the Bangla...
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