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BRAC takeover of primary education opposed: Teachers say, the NGO will implement micro-credit programme through primary schools; govt given 10-day ultimatum to withdraw decision Staff Reporter
Various organisations of primary schoolteachers have strongly opposed the Government's decision to hand over the responsibility of supervision of primary schools to BRAC, an NGO, which they said would first implement its micro-credit agenda through the schools.
The teachers, at a press conference yesterday, set a 10-day ultimatum before the Government to rescind the decision. Otherwise, they would go for countrywide movement to compel the Government to cancel it.  |
Suu Kyi's house arrest extended: Ruling military's 'No' to any concession on domestic political front
Reuters, Yangon
Myanmar's junta extended the house arrest of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday, a move likely to dismay Western nations who promised millions of dollars in aid after Cyclone Nargis.
Officials drove to the Nobel laureate's lakeside Yangon home to read out a six-month extension order in person, said a government official, who asked not to be named.
However, a Yangon-based diplomat said it was for a year.
The 62-year-old Suu Kyi, whose National League for Democracy (NLD) party won a 1990 election landslide only to be denied power by the army, has now spent nearly 13 of the last 18 years under some form of arrest. |
Dialogue hinges on release of Khaleda, Hasina: Govt, AL, BNP fight war of nerves Shahidul Islam
Education and Commerce Adviser Dr Hossain Zillur Rahman yesterday dropped a broad hint that the Government was considering the two major political parties' demand for the release of two detained former Prime Ministers-Begum Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina-help them to sit across the table for the national dialogue.
The BNP and the Awami League (AL) have continued demanding the release of their Chiefs-Begum Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina-to lead their respective party delegation to the national dialogue from the very beginning, formally since the pre-dialogue sessions with the Government in early April. |
Rohingyas to be repatriated to Myanmar: UNHCR
BSS, Dhaka
Visiting United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres said here yesterday that the Commission has been working to reestablish the trilateral process to send back the remaining 27,000 Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh to Myanmar.
"We are working to find out a solution through which the Rohingya refugees could be sent back to Myanmar," Guterres told reporters after talks with Foreign Affairs Adviser Dr Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury at the state guesthouse Padma yesterday afternoon. |
NBR sets Tk 54,274cr revenue target Talha Bin Habib
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has set a new target of collecting Tk 54,274 crore revenue for the fiscal 2008-09.
The new target for the NBR came after evaluating its excellent performance of collecting taxes and revenue during the current fiscal year.
The said revenue would be collected through widening the tax and VAT nets rather than increasing the rates. The procedure for collecting and submitting tax and VAT is to be simplified from the next fiscal year.
The new target of revenue would mitigate the growing expenditure of the Government. |
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Internet Edition. May 28, 2008, Updated: Bangladesh Time 12:00 AM 
