Archive for September 23rd, 2006
Saturday, September 23rd, 2006After curtailing the basic training programme at Sardah Police Academy last year, the government in yet another blatant move has placed 821 sub-inspectors (SI) at different police stations, ignoring field level training for another remaining one and a half years, to ensure their election duty.Breaking the police regulation, the government has exempted the SIs of training at the circle offices for three months, courts for six months and at the police lines for another three months, and directly posted them at police stations across the country.Earlier, the one-year basic training of these police officers at Sardah was curtailed by six ...
(read more) Saturday, September 23rd, 2006Hope fades fast for more than a thousand fishermen who have remained missing since hundreds of boats and trawlers went under during the violent storm in the Bay on Tuesday. Meanwhile, 19 more bodies were recovered yesterday from different coastal areas, raising the death count to 65. The bodies were located in various canals and rivers along the Bay and the Sundarbans.According to private TV channels, at least 82 bodies were recovered as of yesterday evening.Life across the country was severely disrupted for the third consecutive day yesterday due to incessant rain brought on by the low.Heavy rain ...
(read more) Saturday, September 23rd, 2006Formation of the next caretaker government is likely to prove difficult, as efficient and neutral persons might hesitate to become its advisers amid the prevailing controversy regarding the possible chief of the interim government, observed former advisers to caretaker governments."It will not be easy to form the caretaker government if the prevailing situation remains unchanged," former adviser to a caretaker government M Hafizuddin Khan told The Daily Star yesterday.Some other former advisers to caretaker governments also echoed him and apprehended that a serious political crisis may engulf the country if the ruling and opposition alliances fail to reach a consensus ...
(read more) Saturday, September 23rd, 2006Prices of essentials shot up further on the eve of Ramadan, causing much trouble to the low and middle-income people.Incessant rain for the last three days that disrupted supply has acted as a factor behind the price rise.Depending on the visibility of the moon, devotees will start fasting after tonight or tomorrow night while Moon-Sighting Committee sits today with State Minister for Religious Affairs Mosharef Hossain Shajahan in the chair.For the last two days, prices of chickpea, green chilli, onion, muri [puffed rice], and lentil have been rising rapidly.The price of green chilli yesterday jumped to Tk 50 per ...
(read more) Saturday, September 23rd, 2006The government yesterday instructed all superintendents of police (SPs) to complete all executive inquiries into the incidents of 'encounter' between alleged criminals and law enforcers before the tenure of the current government ends.Sources said State Minister for Home Affairs Lutfozzaman Babar yesterday gave the instruction at a meeting in the Police Headquarters with top police officials with ranks of SPs and above.The instruction came as Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and the police were frequently criticised by the human rights activists since the 'crossfire' began a couple of years ago, meeting sources said. More than 700 people have so far been ...
(read more) Saturday, September 23rd, 2006Having held three back-to-back major agitations this month for electoral reforms, the Awami League (AL) led 14-party opposition combine will opt for 'light' political programmes during the month of Ramadan. It however has plans to go all out against the caretaker government in case of Justice KM Hasan taking the helm after the tenure of the coalition government expires on October 27.Describing Hasan as a person with allegiance to the ruling BNP, Leader of the Opposition Sheikh Hasina has already announced that the opposition parties will mobilise people from across the country in a mass agitation in the city to ...
(read more) Saturday, September 23rd, 2006Former chief election commissioner (CEC) Justice MA Rouf yesterday said the Election Commission (EC) Secretariat should be separated from the Prime Minister's Office so that the EC can work "independently and neutrally"."If our EC becomes independent and self-reliant as in India and Sri Lanka, the election would be free and fair," Justice Rouf said while briefing journalists after a meeting with the visiting European Union (EU) Observation Exploratory Mission.EU mission member Hannah Robert inquired Justice Rouf, also president of Council for National Agenda (CNA), about how the EC and media role in election can be strengthened at the closed-door meeting ...
(read more) Saturday, September 23rd, 2006Relocation of the tanneries of Hazaribagh will take 'several more years' to be completed since the authorities are facing various complications regarding land acquisition, setting up an Effluent Treatment Plant (ETP), and 'reluctant' tannery owners, sources in Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) said. With the delay of 'at least four years' in implementing the Tk 175 crore Dhaka Tannery Estate Project (DTEP), the Buriganga river and millions of residents in the western part of the capital are set to face renewed onslaught of toxic emissions in the coming years.Over 273 tanneries and hundreds of related industries are ...
(read more) Saturday, September 23rd, 2006An alleged criminal was killed during a "shootout" between the members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and his accomplices in the city's Postagola area early yesterday.A Rab team picked up Mohammad Parvez, 23, son of late Nurul Islam of Mirerbagh Dakkhin Keraniganj, on the Dhaka court premise Thursday noon. Parvez went there to appear before a court in connection with a case.Rab sources said on the confessional statement of Parvez, they took him to Postagola area at around 3:30am to recover firearms and arrest his cohorts.Sensing the presence of the Rab men, Parvez's accomplices opened fire, prompting the law ...
(read more) Saturday, September 23rd, 2006trial judge of Jhalakathi judges killing case Thursday signed and sent to the authorities concerned the death warrants of seven Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) men including its top leaders Abdur Rahman and Siddiqul Islam Bangla Bhai for immediate execution of the sentences that were confirmed by the High Court. After receiving the High Court (HC) documents of death warrants against the seven convicted JMB leaders and killers, Md Reza Tarek Ahmed, judge of the trial court, sent it to the authorities concerned including ministry officials, deputy commissioners and jail superintendents.An HC division bench confirmed the death sentences of the seven ...
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