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Complaint against Menon, Inu with Hasina for committing genocide

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...

Collaboration on climate change with UK to be enhanced, says Syeda Rizwana

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.

Employments more important than GDP growth

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. Th...

City mayors removed, administrators appointed

The Local Government Division has removed mayors of the 12 city corporations and appointed administrators for those corporations. The Administrators were appointed in the vacated positions, said a gazette notification issued by the local government division today. The notification said, the mayors were removed from their offices as per the section 13(Ka) of the Local Government (City Corporation) (Amendment) Ordinance, 2024. The 12 city corporations are: Dhaka South, Dhaka North, Chattogram, Khulna, Rajsha...

Writ seeking ban on AL filed

A writ petition was filed with the High Court today, pleading to ban Bangladesh Awami League and cancel its registration as a political party for mass killing. Arifur Rahman Bhuiyan, executive director of rights group Sarda Society, filed the writ, pleading to rename all the institutions across the country named after ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina. The petitioner also pleaded for allowing the incumbent interim government minimum three years time to carry out the reform, transfer of all the contractual ...

323 mayors sacked, 60 districts get administrators

The Local Government Division has removed 323 municipality mayors across the country, according to an official notification issued here yesterday. The mayors were removed from their offices in application of section 32(A) of the Local Government (Municipality) (Amendment) Ordinance, 2024, the notification added. In another notification, the Local Government Division also appointed of 60 officers as Zila Paris...
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