The High Court has confirmed death sentence of only one accused out of three death convicts in Jail Killing Case, while speculation is rife that the accused whose death sentence has been upheld already died several years ago. One whose death sentence has been confirmed(The Bangladesh Today)   • FULL STORY

Tarique granted bail in all cases
His release now a matter of time

The release of BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Tarique Rahman is now a matter of time as he has been granted bail in the last case for eight weeks from the Supreme Court on Thursday. Despite bail in 11 corruption and extortion cases, the release(The Bangladesh Today)   • FULL STORY

BD used as transit for trafficking drugs: Home Adviser
There are approximately 20,000 - 25,000 injecting drug users(IDUs) in the country

Home Adviser Major General MA Matin on Thursday said the Golden Triangle (Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand) and Golden Crescent (Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan) are making Bangladesh a transit for trafficking of drugs. "Bangladesh is critically vulnerable to narcotics(The Bangladesh Today)   • FULL STORY

Enforcement of child labor laws weak
There is a broad array of efforts now underway to eliminate the worst forms of child labor(141 countries and territories review)

Enforcement of child labor laws is weak across the globe due to lack of resources and corruption, a US Labor Department study said on Wednesday. "Enforcement efforts were chronically hindered by insufficient resources," the annual report to Congress(The Bangladesh Today)   • FULL STORY

AL rejects Jail Killing Case verdict
Verdict would encourage killings, criminal activities: Zillur

Bangladesh Awami League has rejected the Jail Killing Case verdict saying that the High Court verdict has disappointed them. After the pronouncement of the HC verdict on the case, acting AL President Zillur Rahman, in his instant reaction, at his Gulshan residence(The Bangladesh Today)   • FULL STORY

BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Tarique Rahman will be released anytime as the government has started taking the issue seriously and the High Court also granted him bail in almost all cases. A spokesman of the caretaker government on Wednesday said the process(The Bangladesh Today)   • FULL STORY

EC preparing to hold UZ polls tentatively on Oct 23
Political leaders will be allowed to participate in election campaign

The Election Commission (EC) is taking preparations with a tentative date on October 23 for holding the upazila polls as per its earlier announcement, but the EC is yet to finalise in how many upazilas the elections will be held.(The Bangladesh Today)   • FULL STORY

Manpower brokers in big hundi racket to buy job demands
Over 50 percent of the money the workers spend to get overseas jobs is smuggled out of the country to pay the visa traders in the form of hundi

Amid lax management in the overseas sector, recruiting agencies and manpower brokers smuggle about Tk 8,000 crore every year in the form of hundi to buy visas or job demands for Bangladeshi workers. Such illegal transactions spawn enormous malpractices(The Daily Star)   • FULL STORY

Bangladesh Bank move to speed up transaction
Mobile phone banking to expedite money transfer

Bangladesh Bank, with a set of regulations, is going to formalise mobile phone banking in the country to speed up money transfer by expatriates. The central bank already has drafted a guideline to this effect and has asked banks to submit their written opinions on it in two weeks(The New Nation)   • FULL STORY

Cops, rain foil 4-party protests
Rally on Sept 2 against police excesses

The four-party alliance staged human-chain protests in the capital on Wednesday afternoon, defying a police ban and heavy rains to press for BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia''s unconditional release and steps to send her detained elder son Tarique Rahman abroad for better medical treatment(The News Today)   • FULL STORY

Extremism, terrorism, extortion to be rooted out: IGP
The law-enforcing agencies could do nothing good until and unless local people, elected representatives and civil society members actively cooperate with us

Inspector General of Police Nur Muhammad on Wednesday said extremism, terrorism and extortion would be rooted out with people's participation and extremist-infested areas freed from their tyranny. "We are not trying to prevent the crimes(The Bangladesh Today)   • FULL STORY