Archive for September 28th, 2007
Friday, September 28th, 2007A new list of 80 high-profile corruption suspects was published yesterday including names of BNP leader and Dhaka city Mayor Sadeque Hossain Khoka, five former BNP ministers, Awami League (AL) leaders Tofail Ahmed and Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury, former caretaker government adviser Justice Fazlul Haque, businessmen and bureaucrats.The Daily Star yesterday got a copy of the list, which also contains the names of AL leader Kazi Zafrullah, BNP leaders and Khulna city Mayor Sheikh Taibur Rahman, former state minister Maj (retd) Kamrul Islam, former deputy minister for food Asadul Habib Dulu, former BNP lawmaker Syed Mehedi Ahmed Rumy and former BNP ...
(read more) Friday, September 28th, 2007BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and her sons Tarique Rahman and Arafat Rahman Koko--all three in detention now--yesterday filed three separate writ petitions with the High Court (HC) challenging the legality of filing and continuing the cases against them.The same day two detained former ministers--Moudud Ahmed and Nazmul Huda--also filed writ petitions with the HC challenging the cases that the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed against them for amassing wealth beyond their known sources of income.Khaleda and Arafat in their petitions questioned the validity of the government move bringing the graft case against them under the emergency power rules (EPR). The accused ...
(read more) Friday, September 28th, 2007All very important persons (VIPs) will have to visit voter registration centres to register their names in the electoral roll with photographs as the Election Commission (EC) yesterday decided not to take any special measures this time for them.According to the EC's decision, VIPs including the president, chief adviser, chief justice, speaker and others will also have to visit voter registration centres in their respective areas to have their photographs taken for the voter list, officials at the EC Secretariat said.The EC at an inter-ministerial meeting yesterday rejected informal proposals for treating VIPs in a special way to register ...
(read more) Friday, September 28th, 2007Army Chief General Moeen U Ahmed yesterday said the troops are working to help the government and will go back to their barracks the moment the government asks them to do so."We've been tasked with some specific duties…we'll go back the moment the government asks," Gen Moeen said while inaugurating a fair of handloom products in Manikganj yesterday.As long as the troops are in the locality, they will assist the deputy commissioner, he said, adding: "We want to extend our hands to help you."He said the middlemen had long deprived genuine farmers and weavers. People from all walks ...
(read more) Friday, September 28th, 2007Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Bin Haji Ahmad Badawi has assured Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed of looking into the problems the Bangladeshi workers have been facing in Malaysia.Badawi gave the assurance during a bilateral meeting with the chief adviser on the sidelines of the 62nd UN General Assembly session at UN headquarters Wednesday afternoon.The Malaysian prime minister said Bangladeshi workers are welcome in Malaysia. But both the governments should work together to ensure that each worker is in possession of legal documents, he added.Foreign and Expatriates' Welfare Affairs Adviser Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury informed the two leaders that Bangladesh ...
(read more) Friday, September 28th, 2007The government has decided in principle to set up safe houses in the Middle Eastern countries, making basic training mandatory for women aspiring to work in these countries as domestic aides.It has also been decided that from now on no individuals can process their visas or demand letters and other documents themselves; recruiting agencies of Bangladesh and labourer receiving countries will do it for them. As a result, the domestic aides, if undergo any trouble overseas, can be identified and the agencies will be held accountable.These rules were set in a guideline prepared by the Ministry of Expatriates Welfare and ...
(read more) Friday, September 28th, 2007The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday approved submission of charge sheets of nine cases, including one against former lawmaker Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, for accumulating wealth and properties illegally.The anti-graft body also appointed Assistant Director Taufiqul Islam as the investigation officer of the case filed against BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Tarique Rahman on September 26 for concealing wealth information in his statement submitted to the commission.The charge sheets of the nine graft cases will be submitted under sections 26(2) and 27(1) of the ACC Act 2004 and section 15(d) of the Emergency Power Rules.The suspects in the cases are Sonali Bank ...
(read more) Friday, September 28th, 2007A Dhaka court yesterday ordered attachment of all property of former state minister for LGRD and cooperatives Ziaul Haq Zia and his wife Nasima Haq for concealment of wealth information and tax dodge.Meantime, another Dhaka court yesterday directed the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to submit the probe report on a graft case against BNP's Senior Joint Secretary General Tarique Rahman, his wife and mother-in-law by October 27.CASES AGAINST ZIAUL COUPLE Judge Mohammad Azizul Haque at the Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court passed the attachment order of the Ziaul couple's property as they did not comply with the court's earlier order to appear ...
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