Kamaruzzaman lives to see another day
A two-hour-long drama outside the Dhaka Central Jail last evening – occasioned by a remark by State Minister for Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal – kept everyone in anticipation of developments inside the prison with respect to the execution of convicted war criminal Muhammad Kamaruzzaman.
Until then, it was official that Kamaruzzaman had not given a final decision on seeking presidential mercy when two magistrates visited him in the morning.
11 return home from Yemen
The first group of 11 Bangladeshis including eight women and children stranded in Yemen arrived Bangladesh yesterday from Djibouti by an Emirates flight.
Those 11 Bangladeshis reached the Shahjalal International Airport at 5:30pm yesterday, an SMS from State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam confirmed the news of their arrival.
‘Insult to victims of 26/11’: Lakhvi walks free from Pak jail, angering India
India has lodged a strong protest after the main accused in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks case, Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi, was released from Adiala Jail in the garrison city of Rawalpindi on Friday following the Lahore high court’s dismissal of his detention orders issued by Punjab government in mid-March.
The operational head of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), parent organization of Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), Lakhvi, 55, was released from prison early on Friday morning after furnishing Rs 20 lakh in surety bonds.
PM says Iron fist to grip firmly until BNP-Jamaat’s subversion vanishes
The government will continue to take the hard-line against the subversive activities of the BNP-Jamaat led 20-party alliance, warned Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina before going on to chair an Awami League Advisory Committee meeting at the Gonobhaban yesterday evening.
“Unless we can entirely uproot the evil deeds of BNP-Jamaat, we will not let loose. The treatment will remain firm, unforgiving. Everyone involved in directing, executing and funding these activities will all have to face the music,”the PM said regarding the uncompromising, tight treatment the administration is dishing out to its opposition.
Most BNP-backed candidates facing cases
Most of the candidates included in BNP’s list of lone ward councillor contenders published yesterday are facing more than one cases and many of them are on the run.
The list is not complete because the party has not managed to reach consensus regarding who to back in at least seven wards in the capital city. The party kept wards 15, 20, 24, 39, 49 and 54 in the south open for candidates and ward 26 in the
NBR promotes 51 officials under three ranks
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has promoted 51 of its official to the ranks of additional commissioner, joint commissioner, and deputy commissioner under Custom and Value Added Tax (VAT) offices.
The NBR, through three separate orders signed by its Second Secretary Md Shamsuddin on April 9 made the decision with immediate effect.
Rehab in-charge found dead
Police recovered a man’s body from a drug rehabilitation centre named Help Life in the capital’s Khilgaon yesterday.
The deceased, Md Bashir, 35, was the in-charge of the rehab and lived in Basabo area.
