Archive for November 15th, 2007
Thursday, November 15th, 2007Hurricane SIDR hit the coastal areas of Sundarbands this evening and expected to make landfall in Khulna-Barisal belt crossing the Baleshwar river between 9:00pm to 10:00pm tonight, a Met Office bulletin said.The powerful hurricane with 160 to 180 kph wind speed hit Hiron Point, Khepupara and Dublarchar coastlines in Sundarbans at about 5:00pm, the Met bulletin added.It is now centred 150 km off the Mongla Port.Meanwhile, coastal areas of Mongla, Barisal and Khulna are experiencing storms accompanied with heavy downpours as a prelude to the impending natural calamity. Over1000 fishermen went missing after 300 fishing trawlers sank ...
(read more) Thursday, November 15th, 2007Hurricane SIDR started pounding the country’s southern coastline this afternoon and expected to make landfall in Khulna-Barisal coastal belt at midnight, a Met Office bulletin said.Meanwhile, coastal areas of Mongla, Barisal, Sundarbans and Khulna are experiencing storms accompanied with heavy downpours as a prelude to the impending natural calamity. Over1000 fishermen went missing after 300 fishing trawlers sank in the Bay during the storms.A latest Met Office special bulletin said great danger signal number 10 was advised to hoist for Mongla seaport while great danger signal number 9 for Chittagong and Cox’s Bazar seaports.The hurricane intensity was centred at ...
(read more) Thursday, November 15th, 2007The severe cyclonic storm codenamed SIDR with a core of hurricane winds came closer to the country’s southern coast this morning as the seaports hoisted “great danger” signal number 10, the highest danger warning from the meteorologists.A latest Met Office special bulletin said great danger signal number 10 was advised to hoist for Mongla seaport while great danger signal number 9 for Chittagong and Cox’s Bazar seaports.The coastal districts of Bhola, Barisal, Patuakhali, Barguna,Pirojpur, Jhalakati, Bagerhat, Khulna, Satkhira, Jessore and their offshore islands and chars will remain under the great danger signal No 10.Besides, the coastal districts of Cox’s Bazar, ...
(read more) Thursday, November 15th, 2007 The Met office asked Mongla seaport to raise highest danger signal No. 10 while Chittagong and Cox's Bazar No nine yesterday evening as they feared a hurricane approaching Khulna-Barisal coast might hit the land this noon unless it changes course."The storm is likely to intensify further and move in a north-north-easterly direction," a special bulletin of the Met office said last night.It was moving at a speed of 18-km per hour in the direction of north and north-east, said the sources in Meteorological department.The Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) has already suspended loading and unloading of goods ...
(read more) Thursday, November 15th, 2007The BNP faction led by Saifur Rahman reopened the party central office at Naya Paltan amid presence of huge contingent of police yesterday after two months since the restrictions on indoor politics were relaxed.The BNP central office remained closed for 10 months following the caretaker government's imposing of restrictions on political activities across the country. The embargo was relaxed on September 10, but the law enforcers did not allow BNP leaders to open the office as the party was facing a leadership crisis.Dhaka city BNP President and Dhaka City Corporation Mayor Sadeque Hossain Khoka and General Secretary Abdus Salam unlocked ...
(read more) Thursday, November 15th, 2007Chief Adviser Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed yesterday said the main objective of the caretaker government is to hold a free, fair and acceptable election and transfer power to the elected government, which will definitely take place as per the announced roadmap."As per the roadmap for the general elections within the timeline already announced, it is rather possible to hold it ahead of the deadline of December 2008," he said.The Election Commission (EC) is working to that end and preparing a voters' list with photos amidst much enthusiasm of the people, he added.Talking to the chief reporters of both the print and ...
(read more) Thursday, November 15th, 2007The proposed Local Government Commission will work to make sure the local government institutions function independently with the central government's absolute power in their regulation curtailed.The high-powered committee on local government in its report submitted to the chief adviser Tuesday recommended setting up the commission for effective decentralisation of power. Headed by former secretary Dr AMM Shawkat, it also came up with a draft ordinance to that end.Alongside the report, the committee has submitted a set of proposed laws to replace the existing ones on different local government units.It observed that successive governments in last 15 years have slapped numerous ...
(read more) Thursday, November 15th, 2007Suspension of the conventional system of fertiliser distribution without introducing a new system has triggered a distribution crisis of the farm input across the country.The government suspended involvement of around 25,000 small traders in fertiliser distribution from March this year to introduce 'farmers card system'. But later the initiative for card system was suspended until April next year due to recurring floods this year.Lack of coordination between Agriculture Extension Department and UNO (upazila nirbahi officer) office in different upazilas deepened the fertiliser distribution problem although the government says it has sufficient stock of fertiliser.The transitional pause thus created a vacuum ...
(read more) Thursday, November 15th, 2007Various organisations yesterday reacted strongly to the derogatory remarks made at a roundtable on Monday against the Liberation War and the freedom fighters.At the roundtable organised on Monday at National Press Club by University Study Forum, Dr ABM Mahbubul Islam, dean of Law Faculty of Bangladesh Islamic University, said, "For one to commit war crimes, there has to be a war between two states. Whereas here, the war was between Pakistan and India. Bangladesh was not a part of that war. For this reason, there has never been any war criminal in Bangladesh."Another participant of the roundtable, former energy adviser ...
(read more) Thursday, November 15th, 2007Cultivation of vegetables including potato is being greatly hampered due to scarcity of triple super phosphate (TSP), urea and muriate of potash (MOP) fertilisers in Bogra and other northern districts.The persisting fertiliser crisis is forcing farmers in many areas to go for cultivation of these crops without using fertiliser.Afzal Hossain, a farmer from Dashtika village in Sadar upazila of Bogra, said he has already planted potato seeds in part of his land without using fertiliser since it is not available.In Kurigram, Mujibar Rahman of village Sabujpara in Sadar upazila said he planted potato seeds using manure from cow dung due ...
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