The National Economic Council (NEC) today approved a
Taka 2.65 lakh crore Annual Development Programme (ADP) for the next fiscal year (FY25),
putting the highest allocation of Taka 70,687.75 crore (26.67%) in the transport and
communication sector.
The approval came from the meeting of the National Economic Council (NEC) today with its
Chairperson and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair at the NEC Conference Room in
the city Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area.
Briefing reporters after the meeting, Planning Division Senior Secretary Satyajit Karmakar
said that of the total ADP outlay of Taka 2,65,000 crore, Taka 1,65,000 crore will come from
the local sources and Taka 1 lakh crore from foreign sources.
The original ADP size for the
outgoing fiscal year (FY24) was Taka 2.63 lakh crore.
European commercial aircraft manufacturing giant Airbus is interested in building a strong and long-term collaboration with Bangladesh to contribute to the sustainability and advancement of the country aviation sector.
This proposal was came up while visiting Airbus Executive Vice President (International) Wouter van Wersch held a meeting with the civil aviation and tourism minister Muhammad Faruk Khan at the secretariat here.
The Airbus Vice president was accompanied by French Ambassador to Bangladesh Marie Masdupuy and British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Sarah Cooke.
Foreign
Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud today said US
Assistant Secretary of State for South and
Central Asia Donald Lu is visiting Bangladesh
with a “positive note” to deepen Dhaka-
Washington ties.
“He (Lu) came with a very positive note... His
visit here is to strengthen ties with
Bangladesh,” he told reporters after holding a
meeting with Lu at the foreign ministry here.
The foreign minister said they talked in a very
cordial atmosphere and discussed advancing
the multifaceted Bangladesh-US ties.
The High Court (HC) today barred keeping people convicted and sentenced to death in condemned cells until their death sentences are finalised through disposal of all their appeals.
A High Court division bench of Justice Sheikh Hassan Arif and Justice Md Bazlur Rahman pronounced the judgment, disposing of a rule issued earlier in 2022.
Advocate Mohammad Shishir Manir moved a writ petition filed in this regard, while Attorney General AM Amin Uddin and Deputy Attorney General Amit Talukder stood for the state.
"The writ was filed in 2021 on behalf of three death row convicts, who have been kept in condemned cells in Chattogram, Sylhet and Cumilla jails. The High Court later passed order, asking authorities concerned to submit a report in writing on the facilities provided to 1,987 death row convicts in different jails across the country. It subsequently issued the rule," Advocate Manir said.