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State-owned financial entities indifferent to timely settlement

A total of 38,729 audit objections, involving a sum over Tk1.48 trillion, with different state-run banks and agencies, including the Bangladesh Bank (BB), have long remained unresolved. The audit objections, raised by the Commercial Audit Directorate under the office of Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), remained pending against the central...

Govt to raise police's strength further: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expressed her government's firm resolve to make Bangladesh Police a people-friendly organisation, report agencies.She said the government would continue to enhance its strength in accordance with prevailing demand."In 2009, the police-people ratio stood at 1:1355 -- But our government has raised it to 1:801," she said...

BD starts fresh campaign for Rohingya repatriation

Bangladesh has launched a fresh campaign to woo the international community to create pressure on Myanmar for immediate repatriation of stranded Rohingyas.Coinciding with the government's renewed efforts, some high-profile foreign dignitaries are now visiting the country either to see for themselves the plight of nearly a million people displaced from...

'Bankers book evidence act' in the pipeline

The government has made a move to make a new 'bankers book evidence act' which will accommodate all new banking products and services.The proposed act will replace the age-old British rule styled the 'Bankers Book Act 1891'.After its formulation, courts may call records pertaining to the new products and services...

Some cargo vessels lying stuck

Some cargo vessels lying stuck in the Turag river near Mirpur embankment area of the city due to lack of navigability. The photo was taken on Monday — FE photo

ACC forms body to probe Jaha Alam case

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) formed on Monday a committee to investigate the matter of Jaha Alam who was put in prison for three years in a loan forgery case even after being an innocent.The committee, headed by the commission's legal wing Director Abu Hasnat Md Abdul Wadud, was set up to...

News Watch- (5-2-2019)

Two die after taking herbal medicineA nine-year old girl and a man died, while another man fell ill after taking herbal medicine in Kushtia's Mirpur Upazila. The dead have been identified as Noor Mohammad, 50, and Shamima, daughter of Nawab Ali. "Noor went to his neighbour Nawab Ali's house to...