Archive for September 25th, 2006
Monday, September 25th, 2006After turning Barapukuria coal mine project into a liability for the nation by doubling its cost and halving its production capacity, the project's Chinese developer CMC and its local agent Hosaf Group have jointly proposed taking over the mine, highly placed sources said.The CMC and Hosaf Group in their two-page proposal made earlier this month wanted to take over the mine on the basis of unsolicited negotiation. In the early nineties, Hosaf Group helped the CMC get the mining project contract through unsolicited negotiation under a Chinese Supplier's Credit undermining the national interest.Sources said that in the last one ...
(read more) Monday, September 25th, 2006The ruling BNP has begun to take action against its dissident leaders in different districts to resolve intra-party conflicts ahead of the next general election scheduled to be held in January.The party leadership has already suspended two leaders and served show cause notices on at least 10 others in different districts for their anti-party activities.Besides, it has dissolved Satkhira district committee of the party for internal conflict, and a district committee issued show cause notice against five thana level leaders for opposing a Jamaat-e-Islami leader as prospective ruling four-party alliance candidate in the next election, BNP sources said."We ...
(read more) Monday, September 25th, 2006Four days of torrential rain caused an inadequate supply of vegetables to the kitchen markets in the capital pushing the prices very high ahead of the Ramadan.Wholesalers said the supply of vegetables decreased as harvest was not possible due to the sudden rainfall across the country.The prices of green chilli, aubergine, cucumber, palwal, jhinga, papaya, bitter gourd, pumpkin, kakrol, long beans, tomato, and other vegetables almost doubled in some cases.The price of green chilli jumped to Tk 70 per kg from Tk 20-25 in the retail market while the price of aubergine rose to Tk 40-60 per kg from Tk ...
(read more) Monday, September 25th, 2006Mobs beat three alleged criminals to death in separate incidents in Keraniganj and the city's Ramna area yesterday.At Khajurbagan Bastuhara slums in Keraniganj, locals captured three -- Nadim, 35, Arif, 32 and Mainuddin, 30 -- after chasing them for almost a kilometre.The chase started on the other side of the Buriganga after the three had shot timber trader Dilip Pal Chowdhury, 50, inside his shop at Farashganj. As the timber shop employees shouted for help, people nearby rushed to the scene. But the gang fired on them, injuring at least four people there.Later, while fleeing they shot six more people ...
(read more) Monday, September 25th, 2006The manpower export to Malaysia seems to be in trouble again following some allegations against Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies (Baira) both at home and in the Southeast Asian country.Operation of Baira office in Kuala Lumpur was suspended on orders from the Malaysian home ministry after a number of employers had accused Baira President MAH Salim of trying to influence them to issue more job orders in favour of his agency.Meanwhile, some recruiting agencies here in Dhaka have complained to the government that Baira charges an additional Tk 30,000 per worker without giving any receipt, sources at Baira said.As ...
(read more) Monday, September 25th, 2006Leader of the Opposition Sheikh Hasina yesterday blasted the government for its failure to alert the people of the coastal belt about the recent devastating storm and for its negligence in recovering dead bodies and rescuing missing fishermen. On a point of order in the parliament yesterday Sheikh Hasina also engaged in a debate with Health Minister Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain and Law Minister Moudud Ahmed over the proposed electoral reforms and Saturday's debacle of the moon sighting committee regarding the Ramadan moon.Following the debate Awami League (AL) lawmakers led by Sheikh Hasina staged a walkout protesting the 'partisan' attitude ...
(read more) Monday, September 25th, 2006A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced five Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) members to 78 years' rigorous imprisonment in two cases filed for possessing illegal firearms, ammunition and explosives in January this year.Meanwhile, a Dhaka court today is expected to deliver the verdict of a case filed against JMB military commander Ataur Rahman Sunny and five others in connection with an August 17 serial bomb blast last year.The two cases -- one under the Arms Act and the other under the Explosive Substances Act -- were filed with Uttara Police Station on January 5.The convicts are Wahidul Islam, 20, Shafiqul ...
(read more) Monday, September 25th, 2006The death toll of the recent violent storm rose to 91 yesterday after six more bodies had been recovered while around 1000 fishermen and a navy commander still remain missing. A rescue team however was able to salvage the marooned navy ship. Coast guards and relatives of the missing fishermen are still searching for them but the choppy sea is disrupting the search, an Inter-services Public Relations (ISPR) news release said.Fishermen of Kuakata shore, who narrowly escaped death during the storm, demanded access to modern technologies in deep sea including mobile network and radio broadcasts.Meanwhile, the met office ...
(read more) Monday, September 25th, 2006Doctors at Combined Military Hospital (CMH), Dhaka yesterday stated that the condition of former National University (NU) vice chancellor (VC) Prof Aftab Ahmad is stable and he is out of danger. However, police could not discover the motive or arrest anyone as of yesterday evening for shooting Prof Aftab, who is also a senior professor of political science at Dhaka University (DU).Three unidentified assailants shot Aftab from very close range on Saturday after entering into his third-floor residence on Fuller Road beside the British Council on the DU campus that left him seriously wounded.He was rushed to Samorita ...
(read more) Monday, September 25th, 2006The holy Ramadan starts today with the month-long fasting at daytime by Muslims. In some places, people began fasting yesterday out of confusion over moon sighting. Fazlul Haq Amini, chief of an Islami Oikya Jote faction, directed his followers to go on fasting from yesterday as he claimed that moon had been sighted in Noakhali.The Islamic Foundation however dismissed the claim of Amini.UNB adds: President Iajuddin Ahmed, Prime Minister Khaleda Zia and Leader of the Opposition Sheikh Hasina greeted people of the country as well as the Muslim Ummah on the eve of the holy month's beginning.New office hours for ...
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