Dhaka, Feb 19 – "heads and people in the government to make sacrifices to serve the people" prime minister Sheikh Hasina Thursday called supporters of Awami League and said. "Power is not a thing to be consumed. Everyone has to work with the spirit of sacrifice. It should be considered how much we have been able to give the people. "The huge responsibility the people have put on us through the mandate in ...
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DHAKA – Bangladesh said Thursday it would seek to eliminate begging from the impoverished country within five years. Hundreds of thousands of people depend on begging for their income in desperately poor Bangladesh, where 40 percent of the 144 million population earn less than a dollar a day. A.M.A Muhith, finance minister in the newly-elected Awami League administration, said a government-charity partnersh ...
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DHAKA – Two opposition activists were killed by ruling party members in Bangladesh on Wednesday in the latest of a series of political murders since elections five weeks ago, police said. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), which lost the polls, said at least 17 of its activists have died at the hands of Awami League Party members since voting on December 29. "Scores of Awami League members attacked the ...
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Election results of 16 more sub-districts in Bangladesh are likely to be suspended on grounds of gross irregularities, raising the number of such sub-districts to 30. Upon receiving specific allegations of anomalies in the polls, the Election Commission (EC) has instructed its secretariat not to publish the results of those sub-districts in official gazettes, EC Secretariat sources said. Election Commission ...
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Dhaka - The Bangladesh parliament Thursday approved a resolution seeking speedy prosecution of the country's 1971 war criminals amid a boycott by the mainstream opposition lawmakers. "The resolution seeking trial of the war criminals has been approved unanimously," pronounced the parliament speaker, Abdul Hamid after the house voted Yes to the proposal moved by a ruling Awami League lawmaker, Mahmud us Sama ...
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