Archive for July 11th, 2008
Friday, July 11th, 2008The Awami League (AL)-led 14-party combine last night announced the names of its mayoral candidates in the August 4 polls to four city corporations.The announcement came after two-day long discussions among its leaders.Held at AL acting President Zillur Rahman's Gulshan residence, the protracted meeting unanimously nominated Talukder Abdul Khaleque for Khulna City Corporation (KCC), Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran for Sylhet City Corporation (SCC), Shawkat Hossain Hiron for Barisal City Corporation (BCC) and Fazle Hossain Badsha for Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC).Of the four contenders on the combine ticket, three belong to AL and the other to Workers Party.Khaleque is a ...
(read more) Friday, July 11th, 2008The Election Commission (EC) yesterday issued a gazette notification finalising the list of parliamentary seats with district-wise redrawn boundaries, eliminating all doubts raised by political parties about the initiative's success.Disposing as many as 3,000 appeals filed against the move to redraw the parliamentary constituencies ahead of the stalled national polls, EC yesterday came up with the decisions.The EC Secretariat last afternoon sent the gazette notification for publication, wrapping up the six-month-long task that began in January according to its electoral roadmap announced on July 15 last year.The new list sees changes in boundaries of 133 of the 300 ...
(read more) Friday, July 11th, 2008European Parliament members urged the Bangladesh government to lift the state of emergency as the most important step required to prepare for holding the country's next parliamentary elections.The call was made in a joint motion for resolution on the situation in Bangladesh in the EU parliament in Brussels on July 9.The motion was moved by Pasqualina Napoletano, Robert Evans, Charles Tannock, Th. Mann, Bernd Posselt, Eija-Riitta Korhola, Johan Van Hecke, Mariela Baeva and Marios Matsakis, Roberto Musacchio, Jean Lambert and Jan Masiel, representing different groups in the parliament, according to a message received in Dhaka yesterday.The resolution calls on ...
(read more) Friday, July 11th, 2008 Land grabbers fill up a part of the Turag, narrowing the river, at Kamarpara of Tongi to set up a filling station there. Photo: STAR A long stretch of the Turag River circling the capital is being encroached upon and filled up again rendering a large section of the city clearly susceptible to major flooding.No government agency has yet made any move to stop this pernicious practice.Private CNG filling stations, private universities, and houses are being built on the lands that were developed on the encroached upon sections of the river, while some of the lands are also ...
(read more) Friday, July 11th, 2008The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday filed cases against former Awami League (AL) ministers Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury and AKM Jahangir in connection with amassing wealth illegally and concealing wealth information to the commission.ACC Assistant Director Mozahar Ali Sarder filed the case against AL presidium member and former environment and forest minister Sajeda Chowdhury in connection with concealing wealth worth Tk 13.84 lakh to the ACC and amassing the said wealth illegally.The complainant said investigation revealed that Sajeda spent Tk 12.1 lakh to build a house at her village home in Nagarkanda of Fridpur but she in her wealth statement filed with ...
(read more) Friday, July 11th, 2008The media should provide information about contestants running in local government elections so the people can choose the best candidates, Shushashoner Janney Nagorik (Shujan) President Prof Muzaffer Ahmad said yesterday.Prof Muzaffer made the remarks at a views exchange meeting with journalists, organised by Shujan in cooperation with The Hunger Project-Bangladesh at the National Press Club.Dr Badiul Alam Majumder, the Shujan secretary, during the meeting alleged that the Election Commission (EC) has not been in compliance with the law of providing information about the candidates."The local government elections that are going to be held shortly are very important. But, it is ...
(read more) Friday, July 11th, 2008While re-digging his pond recently, Mongal Member at Sultanpur of Brahmanbaria Sadar upazila found a 10th century statue of Lord Vishnu five metres below the ground.The night after the discovery, the so-called Magnet Party (smuggling group) of the locality offered Mongal Tk 10 lakh for the statue. He refused the offer. He feared about the safety of the artefact and contacted the local police station to handover custody of the statue.Meanwhile, local journalist and cultural activists contacted Asiatic Society of Bangladesh (ASB) and urged them to help preserve the statue properly. Editor of Smatat Barta, a local daily ...
(read more) Friday, July 11th, 2008The Election Commission (EC) will ask the establishment ministry to take disciplinary action against additional divisional commissioner (ADC) of Rajshahi for clearing the way for five disqualified candidates to contest the Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) polls.The EC took the decision following a meeting yesterday, officials said.The returning officer (RO) had earlier rejected their candidacies for councillorship during scrutiny as they turned out to be loan defaulters and Open Market Sale (OMS) dealers. Electoral laws bar such people from contesting polls.However, Additional Divisional Commissioner (General) Mohammad Akhtaruzzaman, in his capacity as the election appeal authorities for the August 4 polls, declared ...
(read more) Friday, July 11th, 2008The Supreme Court (SC) yesterday upheld the High Court (HC) orders staying the proceedings against former prime minister Sheikh Hasina in the Niko and barge-mounted power plant cases filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).A four-member full bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice MM Ruhul Amin kept stand-over the two provisional leave to appeal filed by the government to stay the HC orders and also asked the government to file regular appeals with the SC against the HC orders.“The government appealed to the SC for vacating the HC orders. After hearing both sides, the Appellate Division kept stand-over ...
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