Politics

  School authorities will be allowed to import such buses duty-free, while commercial buyers will be able to import them with a 20 percent duty, provided they are new vehicles.The government has also banned decorative lighting for private events, including weddings and other social occasions, as part of efforts to reduce energy consumption.   Senior

two former advisers were involved in “election engineering” to prevent Jamaat from emerging as a major political force. The Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has demanded that former interim government advisers Syeda Rizwana Hasan and Khalilur Rahman (now foreign minister) Senior Reporter : Speaking at the conference, the party’s Nayeb-e-Ameer Syed Abdullah Mohammad Taher alleged that the two

  Staff Reporter : National Citizen Party (NCP) spokesperson Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain has alleged that efforts are underway to “character assassinate” student leaders since the July Uprising, claiming the attempts intensified after he was informally considered for a city corporation post. Speaking at an emergency press conference held at the party’s temporary office in

Senior Correspondent : Setting out the tone of the government’s diplomacy, Foreign Minister Khalilur Rahman has said Bangladesh hopes to establish “very deep relations” with all countries while pursuing a foreign policy guided by “Bangladesh First” principle. After courtesy meetings with more than a dozen foreign envoys over two days, the minister outlined the broad