Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has said the current government is taking steps in the light of the white paper prepared by the interim government on the corruption of the past 17 years. He informed the parliament of this while replying to a supplementary question from Cumilla-10 MP Mobasher Alam Bhuiyan during the Prime Minister’s question-answer session in the Jatiya Sangsad on Wednesday (September 9).
Meghmallar Basu, former president of Bangladesh Students' Union and central council member of National People's Action (NPA), is on life support at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
Rumeen Farhana, independent member of parliament elected from Brahmanbaria-2, has said it is not possible for the BNP to come to power without Bangladesh becoming champion in corruption.
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has said the government has completed the design work for operating electric trains on the Chattogram-Dhaka corridor with the aim of reducing travel time and distance between Chattogram and Dhaka.
Police have recovered the hanging body of a housewife, identified as Touhida Hossain Tisha, from a house in Lalbagh in Old Dhaka of the capital. Her relatives have alleged that she was killed and her body was hung afterwards in an attempt to portray the incident as suicide.
Md Saidur Rahman Khan, secretary of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), has said the ACC has not taken any action against Asif Mahmud Sajib Bhuiyan, former adviser to the interim government and spokesperson of the National Citizen Party (NCP), with any political motivation. He told reporters this after inspecting the Supreme Court's record building construction project on Wednesday.