Archive for July 10th, 2008
Thursday, July 10th, 2008The Election Commission (EC) has accepted a good number of nominations filed by mayoral and councillor aspirants having criminal records.A few of them have even been convicted by local courts. Out on bail granted by the High Court, they are now seeking re-election on full throttle.Most of the contenders in question are incumbent ward commissioners belonging to Awami League (AL) and BNP.The commission will unveil a final list of contestants after July 13, the last date for withdrawing nominations in the August 4 polls to four city corporations.BARISAL Several of the 14 mayoral candidates whose nominations have been declared okay by ...
(read more) Thursday, July 10th, 2008The High Court (HC) yesterday stayed the proceedings of the Niko corruption case against detained BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia for two months.Another HC bench, meanwhile, quashed case proceedings against the family members of several corruption suspects including former foreign minister M Morshed Khan, former deputy minister Ruhul Quddus Talukder Dulu and ex-Awami League lawmaker Kamal Ahmed Majumder.The HC bench of Justice Khademul Islam Chowdhury and Justice Mashuque Hosain Ahmed issued a ruling asking the government and the Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) to explain within two weeks why the Niko case proceedings should not be quashed, following a writ petition filed by ...
(read more) Thursday, July 10th, 2008Bumpy roads, encroached road widths and missing manholes lids all this is making life for the common city resident more and more difficult each day, especially now with the monsoon rains.The number of uncovered manholes over the entire stretch of the city poses serious threat to the safety of people using these roads.A large number of lanes and by-lanes in the city, including those at Mirpur section-1, 6, 7, 10 and 11, Senpara Parbata, Kazipara, Shewrapara, Monipur, Modhyabagh, Ahmed Nagar, Pirerbagh, Shantinagar, Rampura, Nakhalpara, Tejkunipara, Arjatpara, Colony Bazar, Karwan Bazar, Tejgaon Truck Stand Road, Shahidnagar, Islambagh and many roads in ...
(read more) Thursday, July 10th, 2008A 48-year-old farmer lost his life yesterday after awaiting medical attention at the emergency unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) for over six hours, as his family ran to and fro from one unit to another to find the right doctor to attend the ailing man.It took another half an hour from the time of the man's death before a doctor saw him, only to declare him dead.The apparent negligence of the DMCH unit claimed the life of Kazi Abul Hashem, a 48-year-old farmer whose family rushed him from Brahmanhata village in Koshba, Brahmanbaria in the early hours yesterday.The ...
(read more) Thursday, July 10th, 2008Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed has put emphasis on the necessity of large-scale regional cooperation to ensure better life for people through poverty alleviation in the Bimstec region."We must assess the challenges and opportunities for economic cooperation in our region and reaffirm our resolve for collaboration to strengthen Bimstec's ability to find ways and means for addressing those challenges and opportunities efficiently and effectively," he said.The chief adviser was addressing the inauguration of the Bimstec Ministerial Conference on Poverty Alleviation at a city hotel yesterday.In this context, Fakhruddin asked the member countries to consider the impacts of global warming and climate ...
(read more) Thursday, July 10th, 2008Detained BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday urged all political parties to work together to overcome the ongoing political crisis in the country."This is not the time for quarrelling among ourselves, rather it's a time for working together for the country. In this critical juncture we should work together to save the nation from the current crisis as well as to ensure a free and fair parliamentary election," she said.The former premier was speaking to reporters in a special court after the trial proceedings in the Gatco graft case against her, her youngest son Arafat Rahman Koko and 22 others.Queried about ...
(read more) Thursday, July 10th, 2008The Election Commission (EC) will take instant punitive actions against electoral candidates, including cancellation of candidacies, if they violate the electoral rules and the code of conduct for electioneering, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) ATM Shamsul Huda said yesterday."Stern actions will be taken against candidates who will break the electoral rules during campaigns. Candidacies will be cancelled if they are found breaking the rules," the CEC said during a news briefing in his office."We will implement the electoral rules and the code of conduct firmly," he told reporters adding, "Elections free from the influence of black money and muscle could not ...
(read more) Thursday, July 10th, 2008Khulna Metropolitan Police (KMP) has identified 138 polling centres as vulnerable to violence out of 239 in 31 wards of Khulna City Corporation (KCC), scheduled for elections on August 4.Sources said the KMP now has a different list of criminals to arrest before the KCC polls as many on the pervious list are running in the election after their nomination papers passed the Election Commission scrutiny.The 138 vulnerable polling centres are under five police stations.Forty-one out of 57 polling centres under Sonadanga Police Station have been identified as vulnerable, the highest among the five police stations.Thirty out of 78 polling ...
(read more) Thursday, July 10th, 2008Charges have been pressed against Barisal City Corporation (BCC) Mayor Mojibar Rahman Sarwar and Khulna City Corporation (KCC) Mayor Sheikh Tayabur Rahman in two separate cases filed against them in connection with ill-gotten wealth and extortion.The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) pressed charges against BCC Mayor and president of district BNP committee Mojibar Rahman Sarwar and his wife Nasima Sarwar in a case filed for amassing wealth worth over Tk 9 crore illegally and giving false wealth information to the commission.Sub Inspector Golam Rabbani of the Detective Branch of Khulna Metropolitan police (KMP) submitted the charge sheet against KCC Mayor and three ...
(read more) Thursday, July 10th, 2008A mobile court accompanied by Rab-4 yesterday seized over 24 tonnes of mangoes worth about Tk 12 lakh and held two traders for spraying poisonous chemicals onto those in Mirpur in the capital.Magistrate AHM Anwar Pasha of the mobile court also fined mango traders Abdul Halim Bepari and Yaseen Hossain of Baghbari, Gabtoli Tk 1 lakh. They were sent to the jail with three-month imprisonment for failure to pay the fine.Rapid Action Battalion-4 (Rab) sources said they conducted the raid at Baghbari from 11:45am to 3:00pm and found the traders using calcium carbide to ripen green mangoes.Captain Mohammad Moshiul Alam ...
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