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The number of candidates in the first phase of upazila election with moveable or liquid assets of at least Tk 1 crore each has more than doubled in five years, found Transparency International Bangladesh in a recent report. TIB revealed the numbers while releasing a report analysing the affidavits submitted to the Election Commission by…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today asked public representatives to work to fulfil people’s expectations as she administered the oath to newly elected Lalmonirhat Zilla Parishad Chairman Abu Bakar Siddique Shyamol. “Keep in mind the needs of the people and work to fulfil their expectations accordingly,” the Prime Minister’s Deputy Press Secretary KM Shakhawat Moon quoted…
Hundreds of trees were either broken or uprooted and electric poles damaged in Kapasia upazila of Gazipur as nor’westers lashed the district and many other parts of the country last night. Residents of Kapasia, except in the upazila headquarters, have been experiencing power cuts as many as eight electricity poles were broken and a transformer…
A total of 15 people died across the country due to heatstroke in the last 15 days, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). Three of them died in the 24 hours till 11:00am today, said the Health Emergency Operation Center and Control Room of the DGHS. Thirteen of the deceased were male…
Canada is a rule-of-law country with a strong and independent justice system, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in his first reaction to the arrest of three Indian nationals in connection with the murder of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in June last year. “This is important because Canada is a rule-of-law country with a…
The death toll from heavy rains that have inundated Brazil’s southern state of Rio Grande do Sul has risen to at least 66, local authorities said on Sunday. The number of people still missing rose to 101 and more than 80,000 had been displaced, according to the state civil defence authority. It was investigating whether…
Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar rejected US President Joe Biden’s comment that “xenophobia” was hobbling the South Asian nation’s economic growth, The Economic Times reported yesterday. Jaishankar said at a round table hosted by the newspaper on Friday that India’s economy “is not faltering” and that it has historically been a society that is very…
One soldier was killed and four injured as an Indian Air Force (IAF) convoy in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district was ambushed on Saturday, three weeks before polling in the Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha constituency. Officials said five security personnel were injured, two of them critically, when four militants opened fire on IAF vehicles moving towards…
NRB Commercial (NRBC) Bank has often made headlines for alleged money laundering, loan irregularities, over-expenditure and recruitment anomalies. In 2017, Bangladesh Bank had to intervene to dissolve the bank’s board and remove its managing director Dewan Mujibur Rahman over a loan scandal involving Tk 700 crore. The then chairman Farasath Ali had to resign from…
NRBC Bank’s top managers have great appetites. On October 24, 2016, the executive committee (EC) of the bank’s board held its 56th meeting with four people in attendance. The four were the then EC chairman Md Manzurul Islam, then managing director Dewan Mujibur Rahman and then board members Farasath Ali and Loquit Ullah. The lunch,…
