Praising Bangladesh good track record in loan repayment, China on Tuesday "agreed in principle" to extend the loan repayment period and assured to look into the request of the interest rate reduction.
Bangladesh Foreign Adviser Md Touhid, during his meeting with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Beijing, requested China to reduce interest rate from 2-3% to 1%, waive commitment fee and extend loan repayment period from 20 years to 30 years for both the Preferential Buyer Credit (PBC) loan and Government Concessional Loan (GCL).
The Chinese Foreign Minister also assured to continue DFQF access of Bangladeshi products to the Chinese market for 3 years after the LDC graduation.
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) today arrested Md. Tayabur Rahman, an employee of directorate of government accommodation, on charges of forging the signatures of senior officials to allocate plots, fraudulence and irregularities.
An enforcement team, led by ACC Deputy Director Yasir Arafat, arrested him from his workplace at the Secretariat.
The commission has already approved a case against him. Deputy Assistant Director Md. Roknuzzaman filed a case at the Integrated District Office Dhaka-1.
Md. Tayabur Rahman has been kept at Ramna Police Station and will be sent to court later, ACC Deputy Director Md. Akhtarul Islam confirmed.
The tenure of the six reform commissions formed to prepare a roadmap to decide the next steps on the recommendations in state reforms has been extended till February 15 next.
The Cabinet Division issued a notification in this regard on Monday night.
The commissions that have been given additional time are the Constitutional Reform Commission, Public Administration Reform Commission, Anti-Corruption Commission Reform Commission, Judiciary Reform Commission, Police Reform Commission and Electoral Reform Commission.
Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Adviser Prof Dr. Asif Nazrul today said more than 2,500 ghost cases filed during the previous Awami League government in 25 districts have been identified to withdraw the cases within the next seven days.
“The work of identifying ghost cases filed during Awami League regime started immediately after the interim government appointed public prosecutors and initiatives have been taken to withdraw the harassment and ghost cases,” he told a press conference at the secretariat.
“We have been able to identify more than 2,500 cases as ghost cases in 25 districts. There may be many more beyond this. It will be possible to withdraw all ghost cases by February next," Asif Nazrul said.