Archive for August 23rd, 2006
Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006Land grabbers are now filling up the Gulshan Lake with rubbish brought in by country boats by night to the eastern bank of the Gulshan-Karail part of the fast disappearing lake. Over the last two weeks, residents along the lake on roads-30, 31, 32 tried in vain to stop several boats coming in the darkness of night from across the Karail T&T slum to dump garbage into the lake to make plots.The land on the western part of the lake belongs to T&T, where one of the largest slums in the city, the Karail T&T Basti, is situated. Grabbers ...
(read more) Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006Patrons and leaders of Qawami madrasas yesterday said they will not allow any government interference in formulating curriculum or functioning of their madrasas even if the government commits funds for them. "We won't let the government interfere in formulating syllabus for our madrasas," Chairman of an Islamic Oikya Jote (IOJ) faction Mufti Fazlul Huq Aminee MP told The Daily Star yesterday."However, if the government has any suggestions in this regard, we will take those into account," he added.Aminee is the chairman of one of the four boards tasked with drawing up curriculum and overseeing examinations for the Qawami madrasas.Echoing ...
(read more) Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006Leaders of Harkatul Jihad al Islami (HuJi), who went into hiding after the government had banned the organisation in October last year, gathered in a rally at Baitul Mukarram mosque last Friday as a consequence of a long negotiation with the government for holding political programmes openly.The government claimed it had not known the identities of the HuJi leaders who attended the rally.State Minister for Home Affairs Lutfozzaman Babar said he was not in the capital on Friday and Saturday, and learnt about the rally from newspaper reports. He told journalists that intelligence agencies also had not informed him earlier ...
(read more) Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006The ruling BNP decided to include Jatiya Party (Ershad) in the ruling alliance and to take key ally Jamaat-e-Islami into confidence on the matter.BNP top leaders at the party's standing committee meeting yesterday decided to discuss the matter with Jamaat leaders to 'settle' it, sources said.Meanwhile, Jamaat also decided to talk to the prime minister (PM) about the matter. A top level delegation of Jamaat led by its Ameer also Industries Minister Motiur Rahman Nizami will meet the PM in her office today.Jamaat might express its dissatisfaction over the possible inclusion of JP in the ruling alliance during the ...
(read more) Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006At least six non-government organisations (NGO) had allegedly misused funds meant for the task of monitoring Union Parishad (UP) polls in 2003.The organisations had to return the money to Danida (Danish International Development Agency) after an investigation by the donor agency found proofs of misuse of the funds it had sanctioned for monitoring the UP elections, said sources.The NGOs said they have taken proper actions following the Danida's complaint. They claimed that some field-level volunteers and local partners had made the 'mistake'.Ironically, four of these six organisations have been listed for observing the next elections under the auspices ...
(read more) Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006Opposition leader and Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina said the present government will not bring the perpetrators of the August 21 grenade attack to book as it directly backed the attack to eliminate the entire AL leadership.Hasina vowed to bring the killers and their patrons to justice if her party is voted to power in the next election."The government has taken the lives of hundreds of our party leaders and workers, including 24 persons in the grenade attack on our rally on August 21, 2004 that aimed to kill me," Hasina said.She was addressing about 200 AL party activists ...
(read more) Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006The Supreme Court (SC) yesterday suspended for a week the execution of the High Court's (HC) stay on the process of selling the state-run Rupali Bank.The Appellate Division chamber bench of Justice Amirul Kabir Chowdhury issued the rule in response to an application filed by the Privatisation Commission.The court also asked the original petitioner ABM Abu Taher to file by this time a regular application for leave to appeal seeking overturning of the HC decision.Attorney General AJ Mohammad Ali moved for the government and barrister Ajmalul Hossain QC for the Privatisation Commission. Dr M Zahir stood for the Rupali Bank ...
(read more) Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) further curtailed distribution of diesel to the agents and dealers of Padma, Maghna and Jamuna oil companies in 16 northern districts. BPC official sources said yesterday that 62 lakh litres of diesel was supplied yesterday to 16 northern districts that includes 24 lakh litres unusable residual oil -- also known as dead stock. In other words, only 38 litres consumable diesel was supplied yesterday.The distribution has been curtailed 25 to 50 per cent to cope with the present shortage, a Regional Control Room (RCM) official said.Aminul Islam, manager of Karotoa Filling Station situated on the outskirts ...
(read more) Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006Workers and employees of jute mills of Khulna-Jessore region went on a rampage as they were returning from a rally held at Hotel Royal Square in Khulna city around 6:00pm yesterday. The workers also enforced a daylong strike yesterday at jute mills of the region in a bid to realise their eight-point demand.According police and eyewitnesses, the workers vandalised Mina Bazar, Zia Hall, Hotel Royal, Hotel Castle Salam and NCC bank. Windowpanes and glass doors were shattered as they pelted stones at the buildings. At least 20 rickshaws and 12 cars were also vandalised and 17 billboards were torn down. ...
(read more) Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006A Bangladeshi national was wounded as Indian Border Security Force (BSF) opened fire on Zakiganj border in Sylhet, while shots were traded between the Indian border guards and Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) along the border in Satkhira yesterday. Injured Asad Uddin, 65, of Koshkonokpur village was admitted to Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital.The provocative incident took place after the sector commander level flag meeting between the BDR and BSF on August 13, where both sides agreed to maintain status quo on the farmlands near the border outposts, follow the agreement signed in 1974 and not to create trouble for ...
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