Archive for May 18th, 2008
Sunday, May 18th, 2008What should Bangladesh do when oil price hits a $200 per barrel mark?Already battered by $100 plus price of imported petroleum, the government should prudently take some brave and quick steps to ensure energy security of the country, energy experts believe.A readjustment of retail price of imported petroleum is not enough to face the deep energy crisis ahead, they noted.Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) has already sought Tk 6,800 crore from the government to subsidise losses from oil imports just for the period July to December this year. The government already swallowed many thousand crores of taka in losses for ...
(read more) Sunday, May 18th, 2008Police yesterday shot and injured one of the four escapees of Thursday night's Chuadanga prison break after he allegedly attempted to run away from a police van following capture.Meanwhile, the authorities concerned suspended six jail officials for their neglect of duty resulting in Thursday night's Chuadanga jail break. The authorities have also put the 67 jails of the country on alert.A probe body investigating the jail break blamed negligence of jail employees' duty and poor construction of the Chuadanga District Jail.Police yesterday captured Abdul Hamid, 42, at Chiaghoria village in Chuadanga Sadar, 31 hours after he escaped from jail, our ...
(read more) Sunday, May 18th, 2008Awami League (AL) will begin a series of talks tomorrow with 14-party components and other like-minded political parties for a common stance on crucial issues including release of its President Sheikh Hasina.On the first day, it will sit with the Workers Party of Bangladesh.Meanwhile, senior AL leaders including presidium members Amir Hossain Amu, Abdur Razzak, Tofail Ahmed and Suranjit Sengupta yesterday gathered at the entrance of the special jail on the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban premises to greet Hasina on her homecoming day.Talking to the reporters there, Amu said they would decide whether to sit with the government in ...
(read more) Sunday, May 18th, 2008Bangladesh has asked the media not to jump to a conclusion about perpetrators of Tuesday's bombing in Jaipur, while senior Indian officials are moving to expel illegal Bangladeshi workers from the state.Senior Indian officials have aired suspicion over the past week that the Jaipur serial blasts bear the hallmarks of Harkat-ul Jihad al-Islami."The modus operandi, the way the bombs were manufactured and concealed in bags, is very similar to the way Huji operates," said Pankaj Singh, a senior Rajasthan police officer.While State Minister for Home Affairs Sriprakash Jaiswal on Wednesday said a "foreign hand" was suspected to be behind the ...
(read more) Sunday, May 18th, 2008The cops at police stations concerned in the city remained tight-lipped yesterday about whether the arrest warrants against 12 'absconding' accused in the Gatco corruption case issued by a Dhaka court on Thursday have reached them or not.Wishing not to be named, a number of police officers, however, told The Daily Star in the evening that they expect to receive the warrants against the 12, including former ministers M Saifur Rahman, Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan, Motiur Rahman Nizami, MK Anwar, M Shamsul Islam and Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury, sometime at night.None could say for sure if the police would ...
(read more) Sunday, May 18th, 2008Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Matiur Rahman Nizami, a charge-sheeted accused in the Gatco corruption case, said yesterday his party will resort to legal and political means to fight the case he termed politically motivated.“When the court process will start in the case, my lawyers and the party will definitely face it legally. But since it does not seem merely a legal matter, rather politically motivated, political workers will obviously face it politically besides the legal means,” he said.Talking to UNB at Jamaat central office, Nizami, who was the agriculture and industries minister in the immediate past BNP-led coalition government, said he had ...
(read more) Sunday, May 18th, 2008A microbus purchased by Pashchimanchal Gas Company Limited (PGCL) has been found registered as a private vehicle to the company's Manager (Service) Kazi Nowfel Anwar.A preliminary investigation has also found an alleged suppression of an incident of fire over five years ago in which the microbus along with two other vehicles of PGCL was burnt inside the company garage on the PGCL head office premises at Nilka in Sirajganj.It is also alleged that Nowfel gave a PGCL official a vehicle of the organisation for his personal use and kept fake logbook to hide the private use and purchase fuel for ...
(read more) Sunday, May 18th, 2008A madrasa student in Dhaka filed a case against former lawmaker and chairman of a faction of Islami Oikya Jote Mufti Fazlul Haque Amini, his two family members and eight other people on assault charges Friday night.The complainant, Sharif Hossain, stated in his first information report (FIR) that Amini's son Abul Hasnat, son-in-law Saiful Islam and others beat him up throughout Thursday night on Amini's orders as he did not attend the former lawmaker's rallies.Sharif, a student of Hossainia Ashraful Ulum Madrasa at Barakatara in Lalbagh neighbourhood, said the attackers, armed with hockey sticks, iron rods and blades, threatened ...
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