The National Economic Council (NEC) has included 36 new projects in the revised annual development programme (ADP) of the current fiscal year, aiming to implement them on the basis of public-private partnerships (PPP). The government has allocated Tk. 2,000 crore for the PPP projects in the new budget…

The BNP yesterday announced the names of seven joint secretaries general and eight organising secretaries three weeks after the party held its national council in the capital on March 19. Addressing a press conference at its Naya Paltan headquarters in the city, the BNP senior joint secretary general,…

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the newly constructed Central Jail in Keraniganj today, though inmates of the Dhaka Central Jail in old Dhaka have not yet been shifted to the new jail. According to a senior Jail Super, the jail authorities have not yet decided when to shift the inmates…

Police on Friday raided the El Salvador offices of the Panama-based law firm at the heart of the “Panama Papers” scandal that has revealed…

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court is likely to hold a hearing today on a review petition filed by war crime convict and Jamaat chief Motiur Rahman Nizami, seeking review of its judgement that upheld his death penalty for his wartime offences. The matter has been put on N. 19 in Sunday’s…

United Kingdom Foreign Office Minister Tobias Ellwood yesterday condemned the killing of online activist Nazimuddin Samad and expressed optimism that the perpetrators would be brought to justice quickly. “I am shocked and appalled by the murder of Nazimuddin Samad and strongly condemn this attack…