Archive for February 11th, 2007
Sunday, February 11th, 2007The army-led joint forces seized government relief materials from a business establishment of former BNP lawmaker and businessman Mosaddak Ali Falu in Savar yesterday.The forces demolished five houses constructed with corrugated iron (CI) sheets, which are actually government relief materials, on the factory premises.The 40 by 50 feet houses were built for accommodation of the workers of Dhaka Shanghai Ceramics Factory at Gohailbari in Savar.Seven hundred pieces of CI sheets worth around Tk 4 lakh bear inscriptions, 'Relief materials of Relief and Rehabilitation Department: Not for sale'.Police filed a case with Ashulia police station accusing already detained Mosaddak Ali Falu ...
(read more) Sunday, February 11th, 2007Twenty different government teams are working in the capital to compile evidence of corruption and subversive activities of the arrested political leaders so that definite legal actions can be taken against them.A top government source said although these groups have not been given any strict time limit to do their tasks, they expect to complete them by the month end.These teams have one member each from the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI), National Security Intelligence (NSI), National Board of Revenue (NBR), Rapid Action Battalion (Rab), the army and the Special Branch (SB) of police.The teams were ...
(read more) Sunday, February 11th, 2007The police authorities will today cancel the selection of 757 sub-inspectors (SIs) and sergeants recruited through gross irregularities including bribery, political influence and nepotism in the last days of the immediate past BNP-led four-party rule."I hope an order cancelling the selections will be issued tomorrow," Inspector General of Police (IGP) Nur Mohammad told The Daily Star yesterday, confirming the decision taken in the light of the findings of a recent probe.Though the result was published last October, the authorities did not hand the new recruits appointment letters or start their training.They will soon issue a circular for fresh recruitment ...
(read more) Sunday, February 11th, 2007The immediate past lawmaker from Dhaka-8, Nasiruddin Ahmed Pintu, saw quite a rise in fortune in the last five years and three months with his income, land property and shares in different companies growing manifold.According to the statements he submitted to the returning officer (RO) in 2001 and in 2007, his annual income shot up 104 times from Tk 3 lakh to 3.13 crore while the land property expanded from 1.31 kathas to 176 kathas, which is 134 times.During the time, Pintu's net worth [declared] soared to Tk 5.60 crore from 8 lakh in 2001, marking a staggering increase of ...
(read more) Sunday, February 11th, 2007The country will need to invest $ 7.7 billion in the next 18 years up to 2025 for the exploration of natural gas to meet its growing demand in line with the seven per cent GDP growth. This was revealed in an exclusive report presented recently in the meeting of the council of advisers, a highly placed source said.The report said the country will need 24 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of additional gas to meet the national demand in the next 18 years.Petrobangla, the state-owned hydrocarbon corporation, prepared the report while the energy division presented it to the council ...
(read more) Sunday, February 11th, 2007Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed yesterday directed the Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) to take necessary steps to improve the commercial services at the seaport, the lifeline of country's economic activities.He asked the port authority to place specific plans on short, mid and long-term basis at the next meeting of the council of advisers for making the port operations more competitive, cost-effective and transparent.The head of the interim government gave the directives at a meeting of the council of advisers that discussed the present scenario and ways of removing hurdles to smooth functioning of the main seaport.The port-development move is apparently being ...
(read more) Sunday, February 11th, 2007Chief Adviser (CA) Fakhruddin Ahmed yesterday urged the business leaders to play their part in keeping the prices of commodities under control.He made the call when a 41-member delegation of the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI), led by its President Mir Nasir Hossain, paid a courtesy call on him at his office in the afternoon.The apex body of country's business organisations formally proposed to the head of caretaker government to make Sunday weekly holiday instead of the two-day weekend and two-hour break for Juma prayers on Fridays.They put forward a number of other major proposals ...
(read more) Sunday, February 11th, 2007Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Commissioner Maniruddin Ahmed will tender his resignation to the president today.Following President Iajuddin Ahmed's request on Tuesday, former ACC chairman Justice Sultan Hussain Khan and ACC commissioner Prof Maniruzzaman Miah resigned from their posts on Wednesday while Maniruddin chose not to follow them that time.The government will soon appoint a new chairman and two commissioners to the ACC, sources said.Meantime, other ACC officials will continue their day-to-day activities at the commission.Maniruddin told The Daily Star last night that he was waiting to meet the chief adviser (CA) or his representative, but now he has decided to ...
(read more) Sunday, February 11th, 2007A massive hunt by Khulna intelligence agencies to arrest former lawmaker Hemayetullah Aurango went in vain yesterday.All residential hotels, dormitories of academic institutions and residences of contractors loyal to Aurango were put under surveillance since Friday morning for Aurango, who reportedly arrived here on Thursday night to participate in a tender of local Roads and Highways Department (RHD), sources said.The intelligence agencies also kept the local office of RHD under strict watch in a bid to track down the former independent lawmaker, who went into hiding shortly after declaration of the state of emergency.A senior official of the Khulna Metropolitan ...
(read more) Sunday, February 11th, 2007Victim of acid violence on the wedding night, Sabina succumbed to her injuries yesterday morning after struggling for 22 days at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) burn unit.Talking to this correspondent only three days ago, Sabina had expressed optimism about her survival saying that a foreign expert had said so after examining her.She, however, also deplored that she was not getting proper treatment and financial assistance.When contacted, Dr Samanta Lal Sen, project director of DMCH Burn and Plastic Surgery Unit, told The Daily Star yesterday that Sabina was given the best treatment available at the hospital.Daughter of Sirajuddin of ...
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