Archive for June 29th, 2008
Sunday, June 29th, 2008The government has embarked on a Tk 437.40 crore project to complete 65 bridges that have been lying incomplete for years for want of funds and proper attention of the authorities concerned causing acute public sufferings.The task of completing these bridges, which are 7,563.90 metres in length, will take three years and will cost twice to thrice the amount they would have required if completed in due time, communications ministry sources said.Constructions of a few of these bridges started at the initiatives of local parliamentarians elected since 1990 at the fag end of their governance. Left incomplete, these bridges later ...
(read more) Sunday, June 29th, 2008The BNP leadership appears to be under growing pressure from its grassroots level leaders to participate in the August 4 polls to city corporations and municipalities.Arch-rival Awami League's (AL) decision to contest the local elections has complicated matters further. The prevalent view among the ranks is BNP would lose ground in local politics if it chooses to boycott the polls now, party sources said.A group led by Secretary General Khandaker Delwar Hossain however remains bitterly opposed to taking part in the elections.Against this backdrop, the BNP-led four-party alliance sits today and a formal decision on the issue is ...
(read more) Sunday, June 29th, 2008Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed yesterday said elections to upazila parishads would be held before general elections and the government will help ensure that the polls are free from the influence of black money and muscle power."The Election Commission has decided to hold upazila elections ahead of the general election. We also want that. God willing, upazila elections will be held first," he told the 'National Dialogue on Democratic Transition' held at Kashem Mahbub High School Auditorium.This is the first formal dialogue outside the capital under the caretaker government's regional dialogue initiative.The chief adviser said his government would extend all cooperation ...
(read more) Sunday, June 29th, 2008Dhaka College students yesterday went on the rampage and set fire to a microbus following a road accident that left one of their fellow students seriously injured.At least 10 vehicles were vandalised during the angry protests.Witnesses said the speeding microbus hit Saiful Islam, a first year student of Biology department, in front of the college while he was crossing the road at around 12:00noon.The locals rushed him to nearby Central Hospital on Green Road and he was later admitted to Pongu Hospital in Sher-e-Bangla Nagar.Saiful's legs have been fractured but he was out of danger, hospital sources ...
(read more) Sunday, June 29th, 2008Alok Kapali hit a fighting maiden century to lead Bangladesh to their highest one-day total of 283-6 against India in the Super League match at the National Stadium here on Saturday.The 24-year-old made 115 to lift the innings with a 112-run stand for the sixth wicket with Mahmudullah Riyad (26 not out) after Bangladesh won the toss and decided to bat on a flat, dry pitch.Kapali came into in his own after top-order Bangladeshi batsmen struggled against some disciplined bowling. Only opener Tamim Iqbal with 55 made an early impression until Kapali arrived with the score at 120-4.Kapali brought up ...
(read more) Sunday, June 29th, 2008The government may bring a few changes in the proposed budget including raising the income tax ceiling and withdrawing tax on the profit of deposit pension schemes.The proposed budget for the fiscal year 2008-09 is likely to be placed before the advisory council today for approval. The budget will be passed through an ordinance after the council approves it.Earlier on June 9, Finance and Planning Adviser Mirza Azizul Islam proposed the Tk 99,962 crore budget.Since there is no parliament to debate the proposed budget, the government invited different quarters to post their recommendations and suggestions regarding the budget on the ...
(read more) Sunday, June 29th, 2008Adviser Rasheda K Chowdhury and Prof Muzaffer Ahmad were scathing about the country's non-government organisations' (NGOs) activities yesterday while urging them to become transparent, accountable and well governed.Primary and Mass Education, Women and Children, and Cultural Affairs Adviser Rasheda K Chowdhury, and Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) Chairman Prof Muzaffer Ahmad were addressing a convention of NGOs titled 'Institutional Good Governance of NGOs'.The convention was organised by Sushasoner Jonny Procharavizan (SUPRO -- Campaign for Good Governance) and was held in the LGED auditorium in the capital. Representatives from about 400 NGOs across the country attended the convention.The convention ...
(read more) Sunday, June 29th, 2008The 14-party alliance led by Awami League (AL) might field candidates under the banner of "Nagorik Committee" to contest the forthcoming elections in a number of city corporations and municipalities.Acting AL President Zillur Rahman spoke about this possibility yesterday, a day after his party decided to go for the much-debated local polls scheduled for August in four city corporations and nine municipalities.But, the central body of the alliance would not nominate any candidate for the local elections being held under the interim regime.The candidature will be finalised at the grassroots levels, but in case of any dispute regarding candidature, ...
(read more) Sunday, June 29th, 2008More than two thirds of the Barisal City Corporation (BCC) election centres are vulnerable, Barisal Metropolitan Police (BMP) concluded.Sixty-three out of the 91 polling centres are "vulnerable" and 13 of them are "most vulnerable", officials said.The most vulnerable centres are Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) office in Kawania, Sayeda Majidunnesa Secondary School-1, Sayeda Majidunnesa Secondary School-2, Alhaj Dalil Uddin Primary School-1, Alhaj Dalil Uddin Primary School-2, Khawja Moinuddin Chisti Senior Madrasa, Nuria Kindergarten, Nuria High School, Mathura Nath Public School-1, Mathura Nath Public School-2, Sagardi Union Secondary School, Sagardi Islamia Kamil Madrasa-1 and Sagardi Islamia Kamil Madrasa-2.Hayatul ...
(read more) Sunday, June 29th, 2008The Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) on Friday rescued 21 people including women and children while they were being trafficked to India through Charmazdiar border across the Padma in Rajshahi.The border guards, acting on a tip-off, challenged and apprehended the 21 individuals who had gathered on the border on Friday evening.BDR sources quoting one of the rescued women said an unidentified man lured them, claiming to be members of a joint family in Narail and Jessore, with good jobs in India.The man, however, escaped arrest by the time the BDR reached the scene.The rescued are Asma, 27, her daughter Reshma, 5, ...
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