Archive for March 24th, 2007
Saturday, March 24th, 2007At least 10 people were killed and around 200 were injured as the year's first violent storm swept through Lalmohon and Char Borhanuddin upazilas in Bhola on Thursday leaving a trail of destruction in its wake. The 10-minute long storm damaged no less than a thousand houses leaving hundreds of people homeless. Many trees in the local reserved forest were uprooted and a heavy hail shower following the storm completely destroyed the crops on the fields.Reports received from different districts said the hailstorm on Thursday evening damaged irri, boro, maize and others crops.Most of the dead are women ...
(read more) Saturday, March 24th, 2007Over 21,000 chickens of six poultry farms in Savar and Gazipur have been culled since the detection of bird flu virus at state-run Biman Poultry Complex.Out of 42,423 fowls found to have contracted the avian influenza so far, 12,297 have died and been buried.The authorities concerned yesterday announced a flurry of measures so that the disease cannot spread to other areas. Those include banning transport of poultry products from the affected areas, restricting movements around the infected farms, checking health conditions of the people directly involved in poultry farming, and strengthening the surveillance activities.According to the fisheries and livestock ...
(read more) Saturday, March 24th, 2007Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed has said his caretaker government does not intend to stay in power "a day longer than necessary".In an interview with Time magazine for its March 22 issue, he said the Election Commission (EC) has to decide when elections will be held. "Before that, there is a need to carry out fundamental reforms of the political party systems, including registration and accountability to their own constitutions, and accountability to the people in terms of what they do with the money they collect," he added.Fakhruddin said the EC is also thinking about technical issues like a voter ID ...
(read more) Saturday, March 24th, 2007The army-led joint forces raided BNP chairperson's Hawa Bhaban office in the capital's Banani area in the wee hours of yesterday morning and seized many letters, files of documents, computer hard disks, and compact disks (CDs) from there.The forces also recovered a list of party activists who in 2004 took examinations for getting jobs as sub-inspectors (SI) in the police department. Names of six to nine SI candidates from each district were on the list, sources said. There is a widespread allegation against BNP that it gave appointments to the posts of SIs on political consideration all over the country ...
(read more) Saturday, March 24th, 2007Upul Tharanga and Chamara Silva hit solid half-centuries to help Sri Lanka post a competitive 254 for 6 in a World Cup Group B match against India here on Friday. India bowled superbly for a major part of the innings before losing their way in the closing 10 overs which yielded 75 runs, thanks to Silva's 68-ball 59 for his third successive half-century.Silva put on 83 for the fifth wicket off just 80 balls with Tillakaratne Dilshan (38), ensuring his team crossed the 250-mark.India were 103 for 4 after 24 overs. Rahul Dravid was batting on 18 while ...
(read more) Saturday, March 24th, 2007Auto sales dropped by half thanks to the ongoing anti-corruption drive, reconditioned and new car sellers have said.They said customers currently fear to visit showrooms and buy cars due to government queries about buyers' sources of income launched after proclamation of the state of emergency."Overall sale of reconditioned vehicles dropped by more than 50 percent since last month," Abdul Haque, president of Bangladesh Reconditioned Vehicles Importers and Dealers Association (Barvida), told The Daily Star. "Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet car markets presents the same spectacle."M Salahuddin, president of Bangladesh Automobiles Distributors Association (Bada), an association of new car importers, echoed ...
(read more) Saturday, March 24th, 2007A police revelation that one of the most famous figures in cricket was murdered has knocked the wind out of the World Cup ahead of its 11th day of competition on Friday.Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer, 58, was killed by strangulation, Jamaican police deputy commissioner Mark Shields told a news conference on Thursday in Kingston where the Briton had died four days earlier.The news sent shock waves through cricket and completely overshadowed the action in the 32-year-old tournament.Cricket has long since cast aside its reputation as a "gentlemen's pursuit"; for decades countries such as India and Pakistan have followed the game ...
(read more) Saturday, March 24th, 2007The armed forces arrested a college student on Thursday for falsely identifying himself as an army officer and taking a vehicle and forces from Jatrabari Police Station with the fake identity.Abdullah Al Farhad, 25, a final year student of a private law college in Dhanmondi, went to the duty officer's room at the Jatrabari PS around 3:00pm on Thursday and identified himself as a captain. He asked the duty officer to provide him with a vehicle and police force for some "government" job.The duty officer phoned the officer-in-charge (OC) and informed him of Farhad's demand. The OC asked the duty ...
(read more) Saturday, March 24th, 2007A Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal leader, who was in Rapid Action Battalion's (Rab) custody, allegedly died of a cardiac arrest minutes after Rab-11 personnel rushed him to Savar Health Complex Thursday night.The dead was identified as Yaar Hossain, 25, son of late Abdul Gani of Tetail under Dhamrai Police Station in Dhaka. He was the vice-president of Jubo Dal's Balia union unit.Rab-11 sources said Yaar was arrested around 11:00am Thursday at his village. Rab personnel also recovered a foreign-made firearm at his house.Following Yaar's confessional statement, Rab personnel along with Yaar were going to Dhanmondi in Dhaka to recover two hidden ...
(read more) Saturday, March 24th, 2007Ahead of next month's Saarc summit, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh yesterday said his country desires to see its neighbours feel secure and confident that in New Delhi "they have a wellwisher". "We see their prosperity as a guarantee of ours. We see their progress as reinforcing ours. And so must they," he said speaking at the India Today Conclave.Singh said, the destiny of people of South Asia is interlinked and inter-dependent. "Our region must and can move forward through such a cooperative engagement," he said.Noting that India would be hosting the Saarc summit within a fortnight, the ...
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