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The Bangladesh Awami League, which ruled the country for the past 15 years before being ousted in a mass uprising in August this year, will be able to participate in the next national election if the current government or court does not ban it, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) AMM Nasir Uddin has said.

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State-owned Janata Bank has put 2,971 decimals of land from S Alam Refined Sugar Industries Limited, a company of the controversial S Alam Group, up for auction to recover outstanding loans. It also put up for auction land worth Tk1,008 crore (as of 30 Nov) belonging to S Alam Super Edible Oil. Participants have to confirm their bid within 23 January. Announcing the land auction through a public notice, Janata Bank stated it is owed Tk1,777 crore by S Alam Refined Sugar. The loan was taken from the Sadharan Bima Bhaban Corporate Branch of the bank in Chattogram.

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The Election Commission will begin updating the voter list through a door-to-door campaign starting on 20 January 2025, according to an EC official. "The training programme for officials involved in this update will be completed by 5 January," said the official who spoke to The Business Standard on condition of anonymity.

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Criminals within the police force will be brought to justice, the interim government`s Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus said today. They (police) would have to work with the spirit of the 2024 uprising, he said this morning during a virtual meeting with all divisional commissioners and deputy commissioners of all districts.

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A court today (30 December) showed five people including Hasanul Haque Inu and Salman F Rahman arrested in fresh cases filed over murders and murder attempts that took place during the student-led July-August mass uprising. The three other arrested are- Shahjahan Khan, Zunaid Ahmed Palak and Atiqul Islam. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Sharifur Rahman passed the orders as police produced the five accused before the court and pleaded to show them arrested in the cases.

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Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who tried to restore virtue to the White House after the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, then rebounded from a landslide defeat to become a global advocate of human rights and democracy, has died. He was 100 years old. The Carter Center said the 39th president died Sunday afternoon, roughly 22 months after entering hospice care, at his home in Plains, Georgia, where he and his wife, Rosalynn, who died in November 2023, lived most of their lives. The center said he died peacefully, surrounded by his family.

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Access to clean drinking water remains a far cry for the dwellers of the country’s southwestern coastal belt due to saline water intrusion, which is home to about 43 million people as per the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (2022).

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Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Dr Shafiqur Rahman has said the autocratic Sheikh Hasina has stolen and smuggled everything and devouring the country. “Sheikh Hasina has taken the country`s economy to zero quota. They have made the nation sleepy in the name of consciousness by pretending to be contractors of independence and nourished themselves by looting,” he said.

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Requiring 340 to win on the final day of the fourth test against Australia, India made a shaky start to reach 33-3 at lunch Monday at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Mitchell Starc struck in the final over before lunch, capturing the key wicket of Virat Kohli (five) who was caught at first slip. Opener Yashasvi Jaiswal was unbeaten on 14. India had labored for 25 runs without loss off 16 testing overs before Pat Cummins produced a double-wicket maiden, dismissing Rohit Sharma (9) caught at gully and K.L. Rahul (0) caught at first slip.

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A massive fire broke out at a furniture factory and car garage in Akbar Shah area of Chattogram city. Five units of fire service rushed to the spot and brought the fire under control around 4:00am. A fire broke out in Akbarshah CDA-1 area around 1:45am on Sunday last night. Locals said the fire broke out at Padmapukur Par Furniture Factory in Akbarshah CDA-1 residential area around 1:45am. Later, two units of fire service reached the spot.

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The government is not involved with the "Proclamation of the July Uprising" announced by the Anti-Disrcimination Student Movement and the National Citizens` Committee. "It is a private initiative. We are looking at it as solely a private initiative. The government has nothing to do with it," Chief adviser`s Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam said at a press briefing at the state guest house Jamuna today.

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With the Declaration of July Revolution, the 1972 `Mujibbadi Constitution` will be buried on December 31, said Hasnat Abdullah, convener of Anti-Discrimination Student Movement. He said this at a press conference at capital`s Rupayan Tower on Sunday. "We demand that the Mujibbadi Constitution be declared obsolete. The grave of the Mujibbadi Constitution of 1972 will be created at the same place where the one-point declaration was announced. We hope that the July Revolution Declaration will declare the Nazi-like Awami League irrelevant in Bangladesh."

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Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) A M M Nasir Uddin today underscored the need for some changes in the existing process to include more youths in the voter list ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections. He told reporters after a meeting with Election Reform Commission Chief Badiul Alam Mazumder at Nirbachan Bhaban in the city`s Agargaon.

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Two more deaths were reported from dengue in 24 hours till Sunday morning, raising the number of fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 572 this year. According to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), recent fatalities have been reported in the Dhaka division, including one case in the Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC).

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38th Meeting of the Risk Management Committee of Shari`ah based Standard Bank PLC. was held on 29 December 2024 at Boardroom, Head Office, Dhaka. Honorable Chairman of the Committee Kazi Akram Uddin Ahmed presided over the meeting. Members of the committee Mohammed Abdul Aziz, S.A.M. Hossain, Al-haj Mohammed Shamsul Alam and Md. Zahedul Hoque were present in the meeting.

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