MPs get sweeping authority as
upazila parishad
bill passed
Parliament on Monday unanimously passed the upazila parishad bill with provisions giving lawmakers sweeping authority over upazila parishads in their constituencies. The house passed another bill cancelling the Gram Sarkar [village government] system enacted by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party government in the past...[ + ]
Ongoing crisis splits
BCL leadership
The leadership of Bangladesh Chhatra League has become divided over the reason for Awami League president Sheikh Hasina’s stepping down as the organisational chief of the student body...[ + ]
Green Crescent founder Faisal arrested
The Rapid Action Battalion on early Monday arrested Faisal Mostafa, a British citizen of Bangladeshi origin, who is the alleged patron of the militant’s den, Green Crescent in Bhola, where the RAB busted an ammo factory and seized a large cache of firearms and explosives on March 24 this year...[ + ]
87pc candidates in JS polls lied about
spending: TIB
Over 87 per cent of the candidates who contested the December 29 general elections spent more money than they declared in the affidavits they submitted to the Election Commission, according to a research report of Transparency International Bangladesh...[ + ]
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Lending rates remain high
The commercial banks have not yet started slashing their interest rates on lending in line with the central bank’s latest interest rate policy and the commitment of the Bangladesh Association of Banks. However, some banks have cut interest rates on their deposits, but they are still counting the same amount of interests on lending, banking sources said...[ + ]
Ailing movie industry sees light
Seventy-four full-length films were released last year but very few of them could make profits or breakeven returns on investments. Industry people used to say the movies could not make profit as middleclass people were turning their back on cinemas. But they now say cinema goers are there and also is the business thanks to Monpura, a recent box office hit movie...[ + ]
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