Govt steps up
phone tapping
Journalists, civil society members
on watch list as well
The interim government has intensified mobile phone tapping and email monitoring of a large number of individuals, ranging from politicians to journalists. On the watch list are political leaders and businesspeople with dubious track record, past and present top bureaucrats with political affiliations, listed criminals, and also a few journalists and civil society members, sources in the telecom companies and intelligence agencies said...[ + ]
Revival of controversial coal policy on cards
The Energy and Mineral Resources Division plans to seek approval of the interim government for the controversial, proposed coal policy, which many experts say is a threat to energy security as it would allow export of 60 per cent of the country’s coal reserve...[ + ]
More relief materials seized from BNP
leaders
Former JP lawmaker Jhantu
arrested in Rangpur
The army-led joint forces detained two political party leaders, including a former lawmaker of the seventh parliament, in Rangpur early Friday. The detained were sent to jail in the afternoon on a detention for 30 days...[ + ]
Fund crisis delays work on 15 new prisons
The prison directorate is struggling to have the fund earmarked for 15 under-construction prisons disbursed, with all the 66 prisons in the country already overcrowded and the number of detainees increasing by the day. Nearly a decade has passed since some of these projects were conceived and their construction cost has doubled in the meanwhile, sources in the directorate said...[ + ]
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Market cool as SEC holds brake
Regulatory measures, applied to tame the price volatility, pulled down the turnover last week on the bourses by more than 20 per cent from their week-ago levels. The total turnover at the Dhaka Stock Exchange dropped by 24.30 per cent last week to Tk 534.51 crore from the previous week’s total of Tk 706.11 crore...[ + ]
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Borrowing from the central bank to narrow the governments’ fiscal deficit has grown by 19.47 per cent on an average over the last 15 years, pushed by a revenue shortfall and a declining trend of external aid flow, an official study says...[ + ]
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