Archive for August 24th, 2007
Friday, August 24th, 2007The curfew imposed in six divisional cities has been relaxed from 8:00am to 10:00pm today.The authorities on Wednesday evening imposed the indefinite curfew in Dhaka and five other divisional cities to quell violence across the country.Meanwhile, the curfew was relaxed for three hours from 4:00pm to 7:00pm on Thursday.
(read more) Friday, August 24th, 2007Dhaka University Teachers Association (Duta) General Secretary Dr Anwar Hossain and Dr Harun-or-Rashid, dean of social science faculty, were held at their Fuller Road residences at around 12:20am today, family sources claimed.
(read more) Friday, August 24th, 2007Law enforcers arrested former Rajshahi University (RU) vice-chancellor (VC) Prof Saidur Rahman Khan and Progressive Teachers’ Society Convener Prof Abdus Sobhan at their residences on the university premises early today.Family sources said the law enforces picked them up at about 3:00am.Both of them are professors of applied physics department at the university.
(read more) Friday, August 24th, 2007Security men arrested Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) President Azizul Bari Helal in the capital this morning.JCD sources said Helal was picked up at about 7:00am.Police also searched nearby places of Dhaka University in the morning to capture some other leaders of different student organisations.
(read more) Friday, August 24th, 2007While Bangladesh is going slow about marking its deep sea boundary in the Bay of Bengal for the last three years, neighbouring India and Myanmar are busy discovering huge gas reserves in the bay close to Bangladesh territory.South Korean oil company Daewoo International along with its Indian and Myanmarese partners has discovered about 7.7 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of exploitable gas in three blocks in the Bay of Bengal near the Bangladesh border, according to an AFP report.A Daewoo spokesman told AFP that the size of the reserves is a record for Myanmar, and certified by international consultants Gaffney, Cline ...
(read more) Friday, August 24th, 2007 Thousands of people who had to crash at places other than theirs for the curfew clamped on the capital and five other divisional headquarters Wednesday night hurried to go home after the government relaxed the restriction for three hours from 4:00pm yesterday.Desperate for the safety back home, they however suffered badly due to severe transport crisis.Meanwhile, the city dwellers flocked to the markets to make sure they have enough provisions for the days to come, but found most of the malls, department stores, and kitchen markets shuttered.Buses, auto-rickshaws and other vehicles including rickshaws charged more than twice the usual ...
(read more) Friday, August 24th, 2007 A sick woman being taken to hospital on a rickshaw as her attendant holds the saline bag. The photo was taken from Malibagh during curfew hours yesterday. Photo: STAR Patients faced tremendous sufferings, as no vehicles plied the city streets, medical employees failed to attend their duties and the pharmacists, with or without the knowledge of the curfew, kept their stores closed.Emergency patients from districts outside Dhaka who had no knowledge of the city were stuck at various entry points for hours, while patients from within the metropolis either were forced to pay a few times high fares for ...
(read more) Friday, August 24th, 2007Law enforcement agencies reportedly raided several Dhaka University dormitories and student accommodations at Aziz Supermarket in the capital since the imposition of curfew on Wednesday night, allegedly beating up a number of students.Several citizens were also beaten up in different areas of the capital yesterday on suspicion of being students.DHAKA UNIVERSITY Law enforcement agencies raided DU dormitories on Wednesday night and early yesterday and allegedly beat up some university staff and students on suspicion of 'disturbing peace', as the lawmen took total control of the area which had been at the centre of the unrest since Monday.They also beat ...
(read more) Friday, August 24th, 2007On the first day of curfew yesterday, the law enforcers did not allow vendors and shopkeepers to open any kitchen market in the city and after a span of 20 hours of curfew prices of essentials shot up in different kitchen markets.The law enforcers warned vendors and shopkeepers of Hatirpul Bazar to shut their shops at about 11:00am. After the warning, they started preparing to close the market.Besides, at Boubazaar and Nilkhet the law enforcers dispersed temporary bazaars, which were set up to meet the emergency requirements.After 4:00pm when the curfew was relaxed and customers were allowed ...
(read more) Friday, August 24th, 2007A tribunal in Natore yesterday sentenced former BNP deputy minister for land Ruhul Kuddus Talukder Dulu to 12 years' rigorous imprisonment for arson at three villages in 2004.He will have to be in prison for two more years in default of payment of a Tk 50,000 fine.The Special Tribunal of Women and Children Repression Prevention also sentenced 82 others in the case to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment and fined them each Tk 20,000. In default, they will have to serve one more year's imprisonment.Dulu's brothers--Nabi Talukder, Anisur Rahman Talukder, Mujibur Rahman Talukder, Rafiq Talukder, cousins--Nurunnabi Talukder, Abidur Rahman, ...
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