Archive for March 25th, 2007
Sunday, March 25th, 2007Over 3,000 more chickens were culled yesterday at poultry farms in Gazipur while some 5,000 fowls died of undetected reasons at a farm in Narayanganj in the last two days.A total of 3,212 chickens, including 962 chicks, of a poultry farm at Jirani in Gazipur were culled and 31,000 eggs destroyed. With this, the number of culled poultry birds rose to about 36,000.The Jirani area has been declared an "infected area" for three months under the Bangladesh Animal Diseases Law 2005, official sources said.District Livestock Officer Dr Kafiluddin Bhuiyan received a letter in this regard from the acting DG of ...
(read more) Sunday, March 25th, 2007The National Board of Revenue (NBR) seeks cancellation of parliamentarians' privilege of importing duty-free cars as most members of parliament (MPs) in the past misused it.The MPs of the now-dissolved eighth parliament dodged taxes of around Tk 250 crore in the last five years by importing cars under this privilege and then selling them out to others. Except for a few high-profile ex-MPs, most imported very costly cars.The NBR has recently sent a proposal to the finance ministry to withdraw this privilege, sources said, adding that it is also investigating who purchased these cars imported by the ex-MPs.The law under ...
(read more) Sunday, March 25th, 2007Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) seized eight SMGs with ammunition and a huge cache of explosives and bomb making materials busting the dens of the PBCP and JMB operatives in Pabna and Jamalpur in the last two days.The law enforcers also held an outlaw and two militants during these raids.Our Pabna correspondent reports: Tipped off, a team of Rab-12 raided Malanchi union under Pabna Sadar upazila yesterday and captured Faruq Ahmed Paban, regional chief of Purba Banglar Communist Party (PBCP-Red Flag).Following the information extracted from him during interrogation, Rab members took Faruq along with them and raided a garden of ...
(read more) Sunday, March 25th, 2007The stage is set for Bangladesh to make history in the World Cup as an expected win against Bermuda in today's last Group B match will take the Tigers into the Super Eights in cricket's showpiece event for the first time.Habibul Bashar's men have been relieved from the pressure of their disappointing 198-run defeat against Sri Lanka following the islanders' emphatic 69-run success against India on Friday which ultimately not only revived their hopes of grabbing a place in the second round but also put aside all kinds of mathematical equations and permutations.Bangladesh now only need to win the last ...
(read more) Sunday, March 25th, 2007As cumulative losses of Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) have reached a colossal Tk 11,721 crore, the government is considering an increase of diesel and kerosene prices by an average of 10 percent by late April and may take some unique measures.Side by side with the price increase, the government is considering introduction of card system for kerosene and expansion of social safety net programmes for the poor with budgetary funds. Under these, the poor will be directly given subsidy for kerosene and diesel so that the price hike does not affect them.Once a profit-making entity, the BPC is now incurring ...
(read more) Sunday, March 25th, 2007The 'black night' of March 25 arrives once again evoking the painful memories of a night of murder and mayhem, the beginning of massacre of hundreds of thousands of unarmed Bangalees by the Pakistani occupation forces in 1971. On this night in 1971, the Pakistani military rulers launched "Operation Search Light" killing some 7,000 Bangalees.Dhaka University, being a bastion of protracted struggle of the repressed of the country, faced severe wrath of the Pakistani army and students, teachers and employees were exterminated in the hundreds.The occupation army also launched special crackdowns on the Bangalee police personnel and EPR ...
(read more) Sunday, March 25th, 2007Twenty more cases of forged admission in economics department of Dhaka University (DU) have been detected as a drive to detect fake students at the university is now going on, sources in the department said. The DU authorities launched the drive recently following a probe committee report on forgery in the admission of students of 2004-2005 academic session.The committee headed by Pro Vice Chancellor Prof AFM Yusuf Haider was formed in the wake of allegations of inconsistencies in admission papers of 11 students of public administration department. It submitted an interim report to the syndicate.The report said there are ...
(read more) Sunday, March 25th, 2007Propelled via the record-breaking feats of opener Matthew Hayden and captain Ricky Ponting, Australia looked set for a mammoth total after reaching 266-2 in 37 overs in their World Cup Group A clash against South Africa at St Kitts on Saturday.Opener Hayden blasted the fastest century in World Cup history and the fastest by an Australian in ODIs, when he reached the magical three-figure mark off 66 balls by striking South Africa captain Graeme Smith for a straight six in the 22nd over of the day. Hayden beat the previous best mark of 67 balls also set by an Australian, ...
(read more) Sunday, March 25th, 2007Gas production from well No 10 of Brahmanbaria Titas Gas Field is going to be suspended as the authorities are going to start repairing the well to stop dangerous leakage of gas through different holes and cracks on the ground at Shampur and Adandapur villages and Loiska Beel.The authorities have given permission to Bapex, a local gas exploration company, to set up rigs for digging into the ground to find out the leaks and repair the cementing work of the well to stop the uncontrolled leakage of gas.Bapex engineers have started setting up the rigs. During the period of repair ...
(read more) Sunday, March 25th, 2007Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed yesterday lauded Prof Rehman Sobhan for his 'immense contribution' to Bangladesh's independence and to the country's development through highlighting a myriad of problems and their solutions in his academic and popular writings.He made the remarks while speaking as the chief guest at the publication ceremony of a four-volume 'Collected Works of Rehman Sobhan', published by the Centre for Policy Dialogue.Sobhan said the selected collection of his popular writings, stretching from 1958 to 2006, have the notion of justice at the core and express his ideas on political economy of the society.The book launch attendees' list was ...
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