Hasina, Khaleda not eligible for appearing before proposed
Truth Commission
Fakhruddin tells Al Jazeera television
The chief adviser, Fakhruddin Ahmed, has said detained former prime ministers Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina would not be eligible to appear before the proposed Truth Commission for pardon as they are already arraigned on corruption charges and facing trial in courts...[ + ]
118 ex-BNP MPs
demand release of Khaleda, Hasina
One hundred and eighteen former BNP lawmakers at a press briefing on Saturday demanded release of the detained party chairperson Khaleda Zia as well as Awami League president Sheikh Hasina before Independence and National Day...[ + ]
NBR committee recommends changing tax holiday criteria
An expert committee on tax holiday has recommended increasing the minimum amount of paid up capital for tax holiday eligibility from Tk 1 lakh to Tk 10 lakh...[ + ]
Government urged
to start trial of
war criminals
Sector Commanders’ Forum adopts
16-point declaration
War heroes have urged the government to immediately initiate the process of trial of war criminals, who perpetrated the history’s worst-ever genocide during Bangladesh’s liberation war in 1971. ‘As the government itself realised that war criminals should be prosecuted and people from different strata voiced the same, the demands for trial of the war criminals seem very logical,’ Justice Habibur Rahman, chief of the 1996 caretaker administration, told a convention of Sector Commanders’ Forum on Friday...[ + ]
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Businessmen want infrastructural
dev in south
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Milk Vita farmers undergo hardship
The farmers of Baghabari Milk Vita Milk Producers’ Co-operative Society at Shahzadpur in Sirajganj are undergoing great hardship because of price spiral of fodder, especially granular food and hay. The strict fat-monitoring policy of the Bangladesh Milk Producers’ Co-operative Unions Ltd’ authorities and poor medical facilities for the cattle given by the Milk Vita Society’s doctors are also frustrating hundreds of the local farmers...[ + ]
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