An agreement has been signed between Shahjalal Islami Bank and Limited (SJIBL) and Election Commission Bangladesh (EC) on 14
th January 2016 at Election Commission office in Agargoan, Dhaka.
Mr. Farman R Chowdhury the Managing Director of Shahjalal Islami Bank Ltd. and Mr. Syed
Md. Musa Director (operation) of National Identity Registration wing signed on the agreement on behalf of their respective organization.
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I spent the past week in Bangladesh, visiting the countryside on a fascinating and heartening trip from the country’s massive capital, Dhaka, to the south, a region being hammered by climate change. I came to give some speeches and took the opportunity to see for myself how foreign aid and local sweat and equity are being used to fight the rising seas in a country so low that 30 million people may become refugees. For them to secure a livelihood in their home places, the developed countries need to be engaged, with our resources, our hands, and our minds. We simply cannot afford not to be here.
After being asked for years to come, I’d finally made the trip to attend the 2nd annual Gobeshona conference, a gathering of researchers seeking to understand the reality and best p...
In a statement, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has called upon the UN and all the world governments to take the words of the Chief Justice (CJ) of Bangladesh with utmost seriousness and exert all pressures to stop the Executive from usurping the powers of the Judiciary. Bangladesh’s Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha has made a rare public statement; he has said the Executive is usurping all the powers of the Judiciary. He called upon all the judges and lawyers to come forward and fight against the Executive’s attempt to control the entire State and its institutions and thereby usurp all the power of Judiciary, AHRC said.
Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha has publicly said:
“Beware of the executive; it is trying to take away all our powers. The judiciary and the legal p...
