The Bangladesh Bank Officers Welfare Council today called upon the interim government to amend the Bangladesh Bank Order 1972 for ensuring complete autonomy of the central bank.
They made the demand in a memorandum submitted to the finance adviser of the interim government and later informed journalists about the demand in a press conference at the central bank headquarters in the city.
The council recommended that Bangladesh Bank should be kept free from political interference and influence at the time of doing multiple functions related interest rate, exchange rate and licensing of banks or financial institutions.
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has sought details of the bank accounts of industrialist Mohammad Saiful Alam, popularly known as S Alam, and his family members.
In a letter issued on Wednesday, the Tax Zone-15 of the revenue board asked 91 banks and non-bank financial institutions to provide details of accounts of S Alam wife Farzana Parvin, mother Chemon Ara Begum, and brother Abdullah Hasan.
Besides, the revenue board also sought details of the bank accounts of their parents, children, sisters, other family members, and any organizations they own.
Besides, the information on their credit cards has also been sought.
The last trace of internationally renowned filmmaker and director Ritwik Kumar Ghatak has been erased in Rajshahi as the authorities of a homeopathic college demolished the rest of his ancestral home at Miapara area in the city.
Earlier in December, 2019, the Rajshahi Homeopathic College and Hospital authorities had started demolishing the filmmaker ancestral home but had to move back after filmmakers and cultural activists staged demonstrations, urging the authorities concerned to declare it a heritage site and establish a memorial museum on the premises as done with legendary actress Suchitra Sen ancestral house in Pabna.
During a visit to the site on Wednesday afternoon, this correspondent found that the house was completely demolished and labourers were piling up all the bricks of the one-storey building at a place in order to remove them.
Shamim Mia, the contractor who was given the task to demolish the house and remove its rubble, told reporters that he was informed that the front wall of the old structure was vandalised by the students on August 6, one day after former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled the country (on August 5).
Former prime minister Sheikh Hasina private industry and investment adviser Salman F Rahman and former law minister Anisul Huq have been taken into ten-day remand each in a case filed over the killings of two people during quota reform movement.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mamunur Rashid granted the remand plea around 7pm on Wednesday.
Earlier, the duo was brought to the Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court in a police prison van under tight security, from the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Detective Branch (DB) office.