Archive for December 9th, 2006
Saturday, December 9th, 2006The Awami League (AL)-led 14-party coalition and its allies yesterday jointly issued a 24-hour ultimatum to the caretaker government (CG) to implement fully the package proposal negotiated between them, and said otherwise it will not be possible for them to participate in the next general election within the stipulated 90 days."If the package deal is not implemented in the next 24 hours, we will go for tough movements including non-stop sit-in demonstrations around the Bangabhaban," 14-party coordinator Abdul Jalil told a crowded press conference at a city hotel.Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)-led Jatiya Oikya Front and Zaker Party also expressed solidarity ...
(read more) Saturday, December 9th, 2006The much talked about correction on the voter list in eight days began yesterday across the country amid lack of proper guidelines, preparation, and interest among the field level staff in deleting duplicate and ineligible entries.In the first day of correcting the updated voter list, only a handful of residents of the capital witnessed field level officials coming to their doors while most of the districts saw no activity in that regard, report our district correspondents.Meanwhile, the voters also showed little interest in deleting duplicate names due the complex process one has to follow to do that.The current move ...
(read more) Saturday, December 9th, 2006The BNP might have a great difficulty nominating candidates for at least 30 constituencies with many of the aspirants already threatening not to accept decisions leaving them out of the party ticket for the upcoming election.Some of the BNP leaders have been in contact with the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) as contingency measures, fearing they might fail to manage the BNP nominations, said a party insider.In seeking nomination, a number of immediate past lawmakers and senior leaders will come up against a stiff opposition from within the party at constituencies in Dhaka, Chittagong, Khulna, Jessore, Rajshahi, Comilla, Sirajganj, Manikganj, Cox's ...
(read more) Saturday, December 9th, 2006Nobel Peace Prize laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus yesterday left Dhaka for the Norwegian capital Oslo to receive the most prestigious award at an official ceremony tomorrow.Grameen Bank board member and borrower Taslima Begum will represent the bank that has been leading the way in the field of microcredit across the globe. She will jointly receive the prize with Dr Yunus, said a press release.Yunus and the Grameen Bank share this year's Peace Prize. They have been awarded for their "efforts to create economic and social development from below".Dr Yunus, who has pioneered the use of microcredit in combating poverty, ...
(read more) Saturday, December 9th, 2006The team of advisers to the caretaker government, formed for talks with the political parties, may sit today to resolve the latest crisis that emerged as Election Commissioner SM Zakaria rejected the proposal to go on leave as per the package deal.The advisers informally discussed the matter among themselves to find ways to bring all the parties in the January 23 election, sources said.The process of appointing a new election commissioner has also been halted due to the SM Zakaria issue, said a source.Adviser Sultana Kamal yesterday told a private television channel that she is hopeful of resolving ...
(read more) Saturday, December 9th, 2006The BNP-led four-party alliance will hold a rally at the capital's Muktangon today and bring out a procession form there to protest against "the vandalism in the chief justice's office and court, creating anarchy and the 14-party alliance's conspiracy to foil elections." The four-party alliance will also stage demonstrations in districts and upazilas across the country today, said a press release.Senior leaders of the four-party alliance will address the rally in Dhaka and lead the procession. Dhaka City BNP President Sadeque Hossain Khoka will preside over the rally.BNP Secretary General Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan yesterday urged all to make ...
(read more) Saturday, December 9th, 2006Crimes like murder, robbery and especially mugging have increased in the capital and across the country because of, what the law enforcers say, restive political situation.The biggest ever heist in the country, the latest sensational crime incident, took place at the 16-storey Mascot Plaza in Uttara early Wednesday where burglars broke into four jewellery shops and took gold ornaments and cash worth Tk 12.80 crore.Business people and owners of a number of under-construction buildings in Mirpur, Karwan Bazar, Moghbazar, New Market, Mohammadpur and Badda areas alleged that local criminals, who went into hiding soon after the caretaker government (CG) assumed ...
(read more) Saturday, December 9th, 2006Many unfit and unsurveyed inland ships are sailing in and around the Chittagong Port channel and the Bay of Bengal misusing temporary 'tokens' issued by a section of dishonest ship surveyors in exchange for money. Some vessels also ply in the Bay of Bengal even without the 'Bay crossing permission' by the Department of Shipping, sources said.Besides, many vessels get undue extension of the tokens issued as per Inland Shipping Ordinance (ISO) with 45-day validity, through underhand dealings.A surveyor posted in Barisal is mainly involved in such illegal practices, the sources alleged.The magistrate of Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) detained a ...
(read more) Saturday, December 9th, 2006Executive President of Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Col (retd) Oli Ahmed yesterday said the four -party alliance's "blueprint" to rig the elections will be thwarted through a vigorous movement jointly led by the 14-party combine and the LDP."The administration set up by the BNP-Jamaat coalition has already started shattering in the face of our strong movement...Their debacle in the next general elections is inevitable," Oli told a public meeting at Satkania High School ground in the afternoon.Oli said his party will continue its movement until a congenial atmosphere for holding a fair and neutral election is created.The LDP leader said ...
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