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No major anti-graft drive ahead of polls: 76 corruption cases out of 222 only priority Staff Reporter
Adviser for Home Affairs Maj Gen (Retd) MA Matin yesterday said that the government would not go for any major anti-corruption drive before general elections slated for December.
"We will not go for any major anti-corruption drive before the general elections," he told reporters when asked whether the government plans to go for major anti-graft drive before the polls. "Rather, our main priority will be to carry on legal process against the 76 listed corrupt individuals.  |
65 candidates register names in mayoral polls Staff Reporter
A total of 65 people in four city corporations have registered their names as aspirant mayoral candidates against four mayoral posts of Rajshahi, Khulna, Barisal and Sylhet cities.
The candidates include leaders of Awami League, BNP, Jatiya Party, Workers Party and PDP but no Jamaat-e-Islami candidate registered their names as prospective candidate to contest the August 4 city corporation polls.
Among the aspirant candidates, the highest number of 32 registered their names to contest in the Barisal City Corporation for the mayoral post while the lowest number of 8 candidates intended to fight for the mayoral post in Rajshahi City Corporation. |
New British HC arrives today
BSS, Dhaka
Stephen Evans, the newly appointed British High Commissioner to Bangladesh, will arrive here today.
During his 28-year diplomatic career, Evans has served as British Ambassador to Afghanistan, British High Commissioner to Sri Lanka and Head of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office's South Asia Department, said a press release.
"I am delighted to have been appointed to serve in Bangladesh," he said on his appointment as the High Commissioner to Bangladesh.
"The relationship between the UK and Bangladesh is a special one. |
Historic Plassey Day today
Staff Reporter
The 252nd anniversary of historic Plassey Tragedy Day will be observed today across the country.
The Battle of Plassey was fought between the forces of Nawab Sirajuddaula and the East India Company on June 23 in 1757. It lasted for about eight hours, in which the Nawab was defeated by the company forces because of the treachery of his leading general Mir Jafar.
Plassey's political consequences were far-reaching and devastating and hence, though a brief skirmish, it has become known as a battle. It laid the foundation of the British rule in the Bengal. |
24 Bangladeshis freed from Indian jail return home
UNB, Benapole
Twenty-four people freed from Indian jail returned to Bangladesh on Sunday.
Members of the Bangladesh Rifles at Benapole received them from Indian Border Security Force (BSF) in the evening.
Indian police arrested them as they were smuggled out to India through different border points last year with promises of lucrative jobs, Bangladeshi police said.
Indian authorities later kept them in Kolkata Presidency Prison.
Of the victims, 11 are women while five were children.
Bangladesh National Women Lawyers Association (BNWLA) took steps to bring them back to the country. |
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Internet Edition. June 23, 2008, Updated: Bangladesh Time 12:00 AM 
