Rashidul Hasan

Failing to get support from Awami League, the ruling party’s rebel councilor candidates are desperately trying to get the support of BNP-Jamaat to win the election race of Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) polls scheduled for January 27, sources in Awami League and an intelligence report of police say.

Lawmakers at a meeting of the parliamentary standing committee on agriculture ministry yesterday expressed their indignation and doubt over the ministry’s claim that 4,390 “family nutrition gardens” have been set up at different unions across the country.

It will take around a month to clear the backlog of some 10,500 Saudi Arabia-bound Bangladeshi expatriate workers who were stuck in the country due to the Gulf nation’s two-week suspension of all international flights.

Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder has admitted that seven lakh fake OMS cards were distributed during the Covid-19 lockdown in the country last year.

A parliamentary body yesterday directed the health ministry to ensure that no irregularities and corruption take place centring the Covid-19, like those of Regent Hospital and JKG healthcare over testing.

The parliamentary standing committee on health ministry has shown nothing short of indifference to the health emergency caused by the pandemic.

As many as 57,390 individuals and organisations grabbed the country’s 770 rivers.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to inaugurate a brand new Dash-8 400 aircraft today for its inclusion in the fleet of Biman Bangladesh Airlines.

Air travellers from the UK without Covid-19 negative certificates would be quarantined for seven days.

The Civil Aviation Authorities of Bangladesh (Caab) have for the first time placed four full-body x-ray scanners at the pre-boarding security checkpoints at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.

Calling sculptures anti-Islamic, Qawmi madrasa-based clerics, many of whom are Hefajat leaders, have proposed that the government construct minarets instead of sculptures of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

Hefajat-e Islam is now more than a political party with a strategic disclaimer of having no political agenda.

Presenting a negative Covid-19 certificate is mandatory for any incoming passengers to Bangladesh starting from today. No airlines will issue boarding passes to passengers without the negative report.

The parliamentary body on the home affairs ministry wants to visit different foreign missions of Bangladesh to inspect passport and visa issuance activities in order to get a comprehensive idea on how to make them more dynamic and effective.

A parliamentary body has set March next year as the deadline for launching eviction drives to recover 138,000 acres of reserve forestland grabbed by 88,000 individuals and organisations across the country.

The prolonged lockdown and transition to online schooling has had an undesired side effect -- its negative impact on students’ mental health.

British Airways, one of the world’s leading airlines, is going to resume its operations from Dhaka after a recess of 11 years, sources at the Ministry of Civil Aviation said.

Human rights activists and feminists expressed grave concern over the words of independent MP of Bogura-7 Md Rezaul Karim Bablu, who said in parliament on Tuesday that feminists are to blame for the rape incidents across the country.

Former deputy speaker Col (retd) Shawkat Ali, who was one of the accused in the historic Agartala Conspiracy Case, passed away at the Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka yesterday. He was 83.

Almost a year after holding its 7th Congress, Jubo League announced its 201-member committee which includes controversial independent MP Mujibur Rahman Chowdhury, popularly known as Nixon Chowdhury, as a presidium member.