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Bishop, activists critical of anti-militancy drive

Christian leaders including a Catholic bishop have criticized and cast doubt over the effectiveness of an ongoing anti-militancy drive that has seen thousands of arrests in Bangladesh over the past three days. Police arrested more than 8,500 suspected terrorists in the weeklong crackdown that began June 11. Instead of mass arrests, the government needs to prevent attacks on minority communities, Farabi-640says Bishop Gervas Rozario More than 2,000 leaders and activists from the main opposition Bangladesh National...

US embassy shares tips on visa application

US embassy in Dhaka today shared tips on applying for U.S. visas and avoiding fraud as it stressed the importance on providing high standard of customer service to visa applicants. Consul General of the U.S. Embassy in Dhaka Elizabeth Gourlay through a video presentation US Visashared the tips on U.S visa application in an effort to educate Bangladeshis about visa fraud and scams at the embassy premises in the city, said a US embassy press release. “Each year, thousands of Bangladeshis successfully apply for a U.S. visa. ...

NHRC submits annual report-2015 to President

President Abdul Hamid today urged the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to be more active to make the government more responsible, reports BSS. He said this when an eight-member delegation of NHRC, led by its chairman Prof Dr Mizanur NHRCRahman, submitted the annual report-2015 of the commission to him at Bangabhaban here, President’s Press Secretary Joynal Abedin told BSS. President Hamid observed that the commission can play an important role in ensuring transparency and accountability of the activities of the governmen...

Challenge remains in minimising urban-rural disparity

The proposed national budget for 2016-17 has seen a slight rise in allocation for water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector, however, the challenge remains in minimising urban-rural disparity. Per capita allocation in urban area is Tk 1,121 against   Tk 55 for the rural. A massive 86% of the WASH allocation has been earmarked for big cities. Good news is a project amounting Tk 500 crore has been proposed for hard-to-reach areas, however, it is yet to be funded. Although three new special projects for remote and disadvantaged communities and arsenic-prone areas has been proposed but no allocation has

Stocks continue downtrend

The broader index of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) continued to maintain falling trend for the second consecutive day of the week on Monday as the day finished 4 points down at 4405.40 which was 9.58 points down at 4409.40 on Sunday. The blue-chip DS30 also saw downtrend to close at 1736.52. But the Shariah DSES slightly gained 1.71 point to finish the day 1885.19. dseChittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) also closed the second day of the week down, with its major CSCX index closing about 16.19 points down at 8246.86. The daily turnove...

BNCC draft gets cabinet nods

The cabinet has given final approval to the draft of “The Bangladesh National Cadet Corps (BNCC) Act-2016” and a proposal for ratification of the WTO agreement on trade facilitation. The approval was given in the weekly meeting of the cabinet held at the cabinet room of Jatiya Sangsad with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair. Briefing reporters later at Bangladesh Secretariat, cabinet secretary M Shafiul Alam said the draft on BNCC proposed for giving legal shape to the organization which is entrusted with the task of grooming youths from educational institutions as future leaders.
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