Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan takes a swipe at Gono Forum President Dr Kamal Hossain for forming Jatiya Oikyafront with “anti-liberation forces” and termed it as the unity of the national enemy.

A Supreme Court lawyer serves a legal notice on Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan, requesting him (Shahjahan) to explain in 24 hours under what authority he has been holding the post of executive president of Bangladesh Sarak Paribahan Sramik Federation.

Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan says freedom fighters will hold a grand rally in Dhaka to press home their six-point demand including removal of the family members of Jamaat-Shibir and war criminals from public offices.

Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan says the incumbent government will not intervene in the Election Commission although it will discharge duty during holding the next general election.

Government decides that raw hide will not be allowed in the tanneries at Hazaribagh in Dhaka from April 1 in order to force the tanneries to relocate out of the capital.

A national workshop will be organised in April to finalise the draft of road transport act, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader says today.

A pro-liberation social body submits a memorandum to the speaker of the parliament to press home its 10-point demands including trial of former officers of Pakistan armed forces, who were allegedly involved in war crimes in Bangladesh during the 1971 Liberation War.

In a move to save the major rivers around Dhaka, the government today made Effluent Treatment Plants a mandatory factor for the factories.