Archive for December 3rd, 2006
Sunday, December 3rd, 2006President and Chief Adviser Iajuddin Ahmed's much advertised crucial talks last night with the chiefs of the two major political alliances separately to resolve the prevailing political crisis ended without producing any instant positive result. Coming out of the summit between Iajuddin and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina at 12:55 this morning AL General Secretary also Coordinator of 14-party Coalition Abdul Jalil told reporters that his coalition will go on with enforcing the scheduled countrywide indefinite blockade today.The summit between BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and Chief Adviser (CA) Iajuddin Ahmed ended at 9:45pm.After the meet BNP sources said their ...
(read more) Sunday, December 3rd, 2006BNP Secretary General Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan last night said the four-party alliance has no objection to making any changes in the polls schedule but it has strong reservations about shifting the January 21 polling date. Briefing reporters after a two-hour meeting between a four-party delegation and President Iajuddin Ahmed, he said they had told the president and the advisers to ask the 14-party to withdraw the fresh blockade before any discussion."The election must be held within the stipulated time as there is not enough time to shift the date of polling," Bhuiyan told reporters at BNP Dhaka City unit ...
(read more) Sunday, December 3rd, 2006The 14-party alliance will resume their indefinite countrywide blockade today to exert greater political leverage and press home their 11-point demand after an inconclusive marathon meeting with President and Chief Adviser (CA) to the Caretaker Government Iajuddin Ahmed late last night."We told him (CA) that what is needed to create the platform for a free and fair election is the complete reconstitution of the Election Commission (EC), rescheduling of the election dates after correcting and publishing the voter list," said Awami League (AL) General Secretary and 14-party alliance coordinator Abdul Jalil after his meeting with the CA and the council ...
(read more) Sunday, December 3rd, 2006A total of 1.22 crore names registered in the updated voter list are either excess or duplicates, a survey report of National Democratic Institute (NDI) for International Affairs revealed yesterday.Of this, 6 percent names are excess and 7 percent duplicate, while at least 2.5 percent eligible voters are missing in the list, according to the second NDI survey on the integrity of the voter list.The report has been prepared on the basis of checking 22,000 names, interviews of 11,000 individuals in 37 villages of Dhaka, Rajshahi, Chittagong-Sylhet, and Barisal-Khulna regions. NDI Residential Director Owen Lippert presented the report at a ...
(read more) Sunday, December 3rd, 2006President and Chief Adviser Iajuddin Ahmed yesterday urged the political parties to refrain from declaring any programmes that can hamper the country's export activities. "Stable business environment is necessary in every stage of establishing new industry, attracting foreign investment and boosting production," he said."None should declare any programmes that impede export activities and make the country lose in the international market," the president said addressing the inaugural ceremony of the Dhaka International Trade Fair (DITF), 2006 held at the Bangladesh-China Friendship Conference Centre.Earlier, Iajuddin inaugurated the month-long trade fair, jointly organised by the Ministry of Commerce and the ...
(read more) Sunday, December 3rd, 2006Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged President and Chief Adviser to the Caretaker Government Iajuddin Ahmed to state clearly what measures he will take for creating an atmosphere suitable for a fair election. "Give us the details of what you will do to make the atmosphere suitable for a fair election. Please resign from post of the chief adviser and appoint someone else if you cannot work neutrally. Otherwise the people will have to take measures against you," Hasina said while addressing a teachers' national convention in Dhaka Engineers' Institute Auditorium.She also said leaders and cadres of BNP-Jamaat ...
(read more) Sunday, December 3rd, 2006As many as 6,050 people with mobility, visual and hearing impairment are going to work as election observers for the parliament elections in 2007 while in 2001 the number of such performers was 365.Conveying the information on the eve of the International Day of Disabled Persons -- December 3, Action on Disability and Development (ADD) President Mosharraf Hossain said, "This time we are stronger than ever and determined to do our duties properly.""October 1, 2001 was not like the other bad days. Rather, I could take it as an Eid day," said a beaming Umme Kulsum Ranjana.The woman with ...
(read more) Sunday, December 3rd, 2006One Coast Guard member was killed and one each from the Coast Guard and Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) went missing following an encounter between the law enforcers and a gang of pirates in the Pashur estuary near Mongla on Friday night.Coast Guard Amirul Islam, his colleague Kabir and Rab personnel Kanchan fell in the river with their firearms after a fight with the pirates.The body of Amirul and his firearms were recovered from the place of incident after a massive recovery operation by the Navy, Rab and Coast Guard yesterday. Navy divers were searching for the missing two as ...
(read more) Sunday, December 3rd, 2006The high-powered government committee probing the secret meeting of public servants at Uttara has sought more time from the establishment ministry.The ministry sent the request to the president through the principal secretary Thursday night and the ministry is expecting a reply by tomorrow."We sent the proposal to the president Thursday night and we are expecting that a reply will come today," AFM Solaiman Chowdhury, establishment secretary, said.The probe committee headed by M Abdul Aziz, agriculture secretary, is investigating all the previous similar incidents as per the terms of references (TOR) of the circular issued by the establishment ministry.Some political parties ...
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