The rule of law does not exist in Bangladesh, said a statement of Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC). The statement says, the way the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) abducted seven men, including a senior lawyer and a member of the mayoral panel of the Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC), on 27 April 2014, and murdered them, allegedly on behalf of a feuding faction of the ruling party, in exchange for a 60 million Taka (US$ 774,000) bribe, is proof yet again of this fact.
The role of family members of a cabinet minister in masterminding the operation, police inaction in the face of knowledge of the abduction, and eyewash gestures at the highest levels of government confirm fears. The politics of blood and wealth reign supreme in Bangladesh; there is no space for the rule of law. A ‘cha...
Real Estate & Housing Association of Bangladesh (REHAB) has said it wants to build 22,000 apartments in the city’s Uttara and Kamrangirchar areas opposing the government plan to award the job to Malaysia.
A REHAB delegation, led by its president Mokarram Hossain Khan, on Sunday met Housing and Public Works Minister Engineer Mosharraf Hossain at his ministry office and placed the demand.
The REHAB president requested the minister to award the construction works to members of the association saying, “Now there’re some 22,000 flats of its members that remain unsold. So, such foreign investment will deepen the crisis in the country’s housing sector.”
Sudan expressed its interest to import jute, jute goods and pharmaceutical products from Bangladesh.
The non-resident Sudanese Ambassador to Bangladesh, Dr Hassan E El Talib, expressed this interest when he called on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her official Ganobhaban residence here on Sunday evening.
He also requested the Prime Minister to encourage Bangladeshi investors to invest in his country in shipbreaking industry.
PM’s special assistant Mahbubul Hoque Shakil briefed reporters after the meeting, reports BSS.
Dr Talib co...
Bangladeshi expatriates will soon find it easier to get machine readable passports (MRPs), the country’s embassy in Muscat has said.
The Bangladesh government will outsource the work of converting handwritten passports into machine readable ones to a private firm this year, it added.
International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) earlier notified member countries that it would not accept international passengers without machine readable passports after March 31, 2015.
“This project will significantly help replace the r...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Sunday blamed West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for India and Bangladesh failing to sign the Teesta water sharing treaty.
Bangladesh and India were all set to ink a deal on the sharing of Teesta waters during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s Dhaka visit in September 2011.
But the signing had to be cancelled following last-minute objections raised by the West Bengal chief minister, Hasina said.
The Indian prime minister had made positive remarks on the deal, she said.
Hasina c...
London has more billionaires than any other city in the world, and Britain has more billionaires per head of population than any other country, new data showed yesterday.
The survey of Britain’s super-rich compiled for the Sunday Times newspaper is likely to prompt debate in a country where many still struggle financially and where food banks are a fact of life, despite economic growth recently returning to levels not seen since the 2008 financial crash.
London is home to 72 of Britain’s 104 sterling billionaires, well ahead of Moscow in second pla...
