Archive for June 15th, 2008
Sunday, June 15th, 2008The level of pollution in the Buriganga and most parts of Turag and Norai flowing around the capital is so high that no living organism can survive in the waters of these rivers, researchers say.A three-year research finds that some invertebrates and small organisms come into being in these rivers when water flow increases during rains. But these life forms completely disappear in the dry season, they add.The oxygen level of the Buriganga, Tongi canal of Turag and a part of Norai is less than one in per microgram. All species of local fish need 4-6 level of oxygen in ...
(read more) Sunday, June 15th, 2008The cash-strapped Maddhapara Granite Mining Co Ltd (MGMCL) is being burdened with as much as 2.3 lakh tonnes of unsold hard rock worth Tk 25 crore in its inventory because of an inappropriate rock crushing and sorting plant.The inventory was built to store only 40,000 tonnes of rock.Although the country annually consumes 60-70 lakh tonnes of imported rock, MGMCL's rock is failing to attract even the government-owned rock buyers."Unless the company gets a permanent customer like Bangladesh Railway or the Roads and Highways Department, the MGMCL will be facing deeper financial crisis in future," said a competent source. Bangladesh Railway ...
(read more) Sunday, June 15th, 2008Detained BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's cantonment residence is being cleaned up in anticipation of her release though the former prime minister has yet to appeal to the government.Party leaders said they would not submit any petition to the caretaker government for their chief's release. They want the government to act on its own to free her without attaching any strings.Meantime, Khaleda did not agree to a government proposal for having arthritis therapy at a city hospital. Instead, she suggested that the authorities send doctors to the makeshift jail she has been detained, said a source close to her family.In another ...
(read more) Sunday, June 15th, 2008In a latest fracas in the political arena, major political parties dismissed as “wails from a broken heart” Dr Kamal Hossain's remarks perceivably against the release of Sheikh Hasina and a move to release Khaleda Zia.Awami League, BNP and Workers Party leaders told the UNB that they did not expect such comments from a “guardian” like Dr Kamal Hossain who virtually termed Hasina and Khaleda corrupt and rebuked the caretaker government for releasing Sheikh Hasina and its move to set free Khaleda Zia.Acting Awami League General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam said, “He is our guardian. We don't expect indecorous remarks ...
(read more) Sunday, June 15th, 2008The caretaker government is yet to respond to the Election Commission's (EC) proposals made more than a year ago to bar political parties from having overseas units and front organisations comprising students, teachers, employees, workers or members of any profession.The EC sent the proposals to the law ministry in May last year requesting it also to repeal the existing provisions in the Political Parties Ordinance 1978 which allow parties to have front organisations, not party units.But the law ministry could not yet take any steps in this regard as the government did not ask it to do so, officials ...
(read more) Sunday, June 15th, 2008Body of a young woman, severed into nine pieces, was recovered at Sutrapur in the capital yesterday, a day after similar recovery of the body of a brutally murdered young woman from Tejgaon area.Besides, a man was found butchered at Adabar in the city.Identity of the victims could not be ascertained till the filing of this report at 9:00pm yesterday.Informed by the locals, police recovered the body pieces of the young woman, aged around 22, in three bags from Hemendra Das Road and Protap Das Road in Sutrapur around 7:00 in the morning, said Sutrapur police.The head and the arms ...
(read more) Sunday, June 15th, 2008More than 1,100 prisoners escaped during a brazen Taliban bomb and rocket attack on the main prison in southern Afghanistan that knocked down the front gate and demolished a prison floor, officials said yesterday.Afghan officials said that at least 15 security guards were found dead.The complex attack late Friday included a truck bombing at the main gate, a suicide bomber who struck a back wall and rockets fired from inside the prison courtyard, setting off a series of explosions that rattled Kandahar, the country's second biggest city.A Taliban spokesman, Qari Yousef Ahmadi, said 30 insurgents on motorbikes and two ...
(read more) Sunday, June 15th, 2008Awami League (AL) yesterday finalised a nine-member delegation led by its Acting President Zillur Rahman for the on going dialogues between the government and political parties.The decision was taken at an AL central working committee (ALCWC) meeting held in the party president's office in Dhanmondi, presided over by Sajeda Chowdhury.The other delegates are AL presidium members Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury, Amir Hossain Amu, Abdur Razzak, Tofail Ahmed, Suranjit Sengupta, Motia Chowdhury, Ataur Rahman Khan Kaiser, and Acting General Secretary Syed Ahsraful Islam.The party will send the names to the government soon.The ALCWC meeting also expressed its satisfaction over the ...
(read more) Sunday, June 15th, 2008Pakistan put aside all their off-field controversies to bounce back in emphatic style in the triangular Kitply Cup final as a 205-run second-wicket stand between Salman Butt and Younis Khan left India up against a daunting task of scoring 316 runs to win under floodlights at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur yesterday.India were still in the hunt though remotely despite losing their dashing opener Virender Sehwag (2) early in their chase with their captain Mehendra Singh Dhoni batting on 25 and with him the last recognised batsman Irfan Pathan on 21. The situation after 41 overs was India 238-6, ...
(read more) Sunday, June 15th, 2008Education Adviser Hossain Zillur Rahman yesterday said the caretaker government is working to enlist support of the country's two large political parties in its ongoing efforts to ensure a credible and meaningful general elections and a stable post-election situation."Like Awami League [AL], BNP is also a major political party with large populist support-base. That is why we are trying to include both the major parties [BNP and AL] into our efforts," he told reporters yesterday morning emerging from the inaugural ceremony of the first biennial conference of Bangladesh Economic Association (BEA), Chittagong chapter.Zillur said the government's prime objective is ...
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