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Staff Reporter :The Election Commission (EC) has said that its decision on transferring officers-in-charge (OCs) and upazila nirbahi officers (UNOs) stemmed from the commissioners’ ground observations. Response to a journalist’s question in a briefing, at the Agargaon Election Building Ashok Kumar Debnath, Additional Secretary of the EC Secretariat said this on Saturday. Ashok Kumar Debnath also said, “This transfer will not cause any disruptions.” However, two district deputy commissioners (DCs) were transferred yesterday ahead of the 12th national elections upon...

UNB :A newlywed woman is understood to have committed suicide by hanging herself in her new home in the capital’s Banasree residential area on Friday night. Afiya Murshida Chaity Alam, hailing from Ghatail upazila of Tangail, got married to Md Tawhid just three days earlier, according to her own younger brother. She was 37. The brother, Omar Faruk, said Tawhid and Chaity got married with the consent of their families, just last week, but problems did arise immediately afterwards. Chaity...

Staff Reporter :The United Nations wants to see the upcoming 12th Parliamentary Election inclusive, peaceful and credible election so that voters can exercise their rights of franchise freely without any intimidation. Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General of the United Nations made the remarks during a press briefing in the UN Headquarters on Friday in response to the question from a journalist. The journalist asked that both the United Nations and the United States want to see inclusive election in...

Reuters :Governments launched new initiatives on Saturday to bolster clean energy and to wean themselves off fossil fuels at the U.N. climate summit in Dubai, where countries are grappling with how to halt the non-stop rise in planet-warming emissions. In one of the most widely supported initiatives, 118 governments pledged to triple the world’s renewable energy capacity by 2030 at the UN’s COP28 climate summit on Saturday, as a route to cut the share of fossil fuels in the world’s...

UNB :The BNP and like-minded opposition parties are set to enforce their next round of a 48-hour blockade, oborodh, covering road-rail-waterways across the country from today (Sunday) morning. When these successive, almost daily or non-stop programmes – weekends and usually Tuesdays ommitted for some breathing space – started in early November, they were protesting the Election Commission’s announcement of the schedule for the 12th general election. They now encompass pressuring the government to quit, and to hold the next election...

Staff Reporter :Over 100 garment workers in Cumilla’s Chauddagram have been injured while rushing out of the factory building of Amir Shirts in panic during Saturday’s morning earthquake. Chauddagram Upazila Medical Officer Golam Kibria confirmed the matter to the media saying that their multiple teams are working to serve the injured. It is not possible to tell the exact number of how many people have been admitted so far. The number of injured may increase. But no one was seriously...

Syed Shemul Parvez  :Repeated earthquakes in recent times across the country have raised serious concerns among the people in the country. A moderate earthquake jolted the capital city and other parts of the country on Saturday morning, creating panic among the people who felt light to strong shakes. The tremor occurred at around 9:36am and lasted about 33 seconds. The quake was felt in Munshiganj, Gopalganj, Kushtia, Chapainawabganj, Tangail, Sylhet, Cox’s Bazar and other parts of the country. According to...

Staff Reporter :The main opposition party-BNP on Friday alleged that the Awami League government out to celebrate another voter less election celebration. “They (government) is being ready to hold another vote rigging election like the previous 2014 and the 2018 polls ignoring the call of conducting free, fair and inclusive election from the people of the country and democratic countries,” BNP Senior Joint-Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said in a virtual press briefing. Rizvi said, “Ruling AL’s General Secretary Obaidul...

Reuters :UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres urged world leaders at the COP28 climate summit to plan for a future without fossil fuels, saying there was no other way to curb global warming. Speaking a day after COP28 president Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber proposed embracing the continued use of fossil fuels, Guterres said: “We cannot save a burning planet with a fire hose of fossil fuels.” “The 1.5-degree limit is only possible if we ultimately stop burning all fossil fuels. Not reduce....

News Desk :A total of 29 out of 44 political parties registered with the Election Commission fielded their aspirants to join the 12th parliamentary elections slated from January 7. More than 2,750 aspirants including some 700 independent candidates submitted nomination papers in 300 parliamentary constituencies, according to the initial estimate of EC secretariat. But the number of candidates may differ slightly after the final estimate, reports UNB. The participating parties include Bangladesh Awami League, Jatiya Party, Jaker Party, Trinomul BNP,...