With the recent change in government on August 5, a new development has emerged: a feature film about BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has been announced. Titled "Mother of Democracy," the movie has already been registered with the Directors' Guild by director MK Zaman. The film is being produced by Akand Entertainment PLC, with the script reportedly completed and pre-production work in progress. Filming is scheduled to begin on September 25.
Director A K Zaman explained: "This decision wasn't made overnight. We've been working on this film for quite some ti...
The Dhaka metro rail is set to resume operations as workers who had been on strike have now returned to their duties. The metro rail was initially scheduled to resume operations on Sunday after a month-long closure. However, the workers' strike caused a delay in the reopening.
The workers resumed work on Tuesday, and the Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL), which operates the metro rail, plans to relaunch services within the next four to five days.
However, due to recent student protests that turned violen...
The Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) on Monday asked banks to freeze the accounts of Zahid Maleque, former health minister, and Mohammad Ali Sikdar, chairman of Computer World BD, along with their family members.
Other persons are Zahid Maleque's son Ahad Maleque, daughter Sinthia Maleque, and Liakat Ali Sikder's wife Mahmuda Ali Sikdar.
Besides, the BFIU also asked to freeze the bank accounts of Computer World BD. Mahmuda Ali Sikdar is also the company's chief executive officer.
According to a circular from the agency, the BFIU has asked to freeze the bank accounts for the next 30 days in the initial phase.
Sources said that the instruction came after the BFIU received reports of suspicious transactions in accounts under their names.
A complaint was filed today with the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) against 27 people, including ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, former ministers Obaidul Quader, Rashed Khan Menon and Hasanul Huq Inu for committing alleged genocide and crimes against humanity.
The other prominent accused in the complaints are- Anwar Hossain Monju, Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, Anisul Huq, Hasan Mahmud, Jahangir Kabir Nanak, Mohammad Ali Arafat, Kamal Ahmed Mazumder and former inspector general of police (IGP) Abdul...
Syeda Rizwana Hasan, Adviser on Environment, Forest, and Climate Change, announced that Bangladesh and the UK will deepen collaboration on climate change and environmental conservation. She emphasized the need for capacity building, rainwater harvesting, and desalination initiatives, ensuring that these benefits reach the people. Rizwana Hasan called for the doubling of the $100 billion in climate financing to address the growing needs, stressing the importance of securing a better world for future generations.
Putting utmost priority on generating more employments and stabilizing the economy, Adviser to the interim government on
the Ministries of Planning and Education Dr Wahiduddin Mahmud today said that generating more employments is now more important than boosting the GDP growth.
"Massive problem now exists centering the GDP and it won't work only with increasing the GDP growth. Qualitative standard was not ensured over the years and our priority is now to generate more employments and stabilizing the economy," he said.
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