Archive for September 8th, 2008
Monday, September 8th, 2008Election Commission's (EC) efforts towards a consensus on registration of political parties before the parliamentary polls seem unlikely to succeed as the BNP-led four-party alliance remains opposed to joining talks with it.BNP did not take part in the dialogue yesterday. Its coalition partners Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Oikya Jote (IOJ) are set to follow suit today.In a letter to the commission yesterday morning, BNP said it will not participate in any dialogue if the recently promulgated 'unconstitutional' electoral provisions and rules are not scrapped.Besides, it added, there is no point in talking about only registration when there are many ...
(read more) Monday, September 8th, 2008Eight more government servicemen, including two Titas Gas officials and an executive engineer of Bangladesh Inland Water Transportation Authority (BIWTA), yesterday confessed to having ill-gotten wealth worth Tk 2.57 crore before the Truth and Accountability Commission (Tac).With their disclosure, 31 persons have so far disclosed information about their ill-gotten wealth before the Tac. Except for a textile businessman, all of them are government officials.The five other government officials who confessed their illegal wealth yesterday are two district registrars and three sub-registrars.Narayanganj Sub-Registrar Mujibur Rahman confessed to having illegal wealth worth Tk 1 crore while BIWTA Executive Engineer Saiful Islam disclosed ...
(read more) Monday, September 8th, 2008The government is considering trimming down open market sales (OMS) of rice following a sharp fall in the number of consumers rushing to the outlets for the staple, Commerce Adviser Hossain Zillur Rahman said yesterday."The OMS programme drew a large number of consumers at the beginning. Now some 25 percent rice provided for the programme is being returned," Hossain Zillur told reporters after a review meeting in the commerce ministry on market prices of essentials and the supply situation.The adviser said the recent fall in rice prices slowed down the sales of OMS rice.He said the demand for OMS rice ...
(read more) Monday, September 8th, 2008Another 30-metre section of a flood-protection embankment on the Jamuna at Chandanbaisha was washed away yesterday, triggering fears that a vast area in Bogra would be inundated.Around 200 metres of the same flood-protection embankment gave in last week and affected 12,000 people destroying more than 300 houses. Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed visited the affected areas yesterday.It is also feared that the water of the might Jamuna may merge with the Karotoa, reports our staff correspondent at Bogra.Three children drowned in floodwater in Tangail and Madaripur yesterday.No jobs, sky-rocketing prices of essentials due to Ramadan, waterborne diseases and ...
(read more) Monday, September 8th, 2008The government is planning to officially ban 18 splinter groupings of clandestine armed communists soon, as law enforcing agencies identified them as organisations engaged in anti-state activities in 13 north-west and southern districts.According to top officials of police and Rapid Action Battalion (Rab), the decision is being taken for the first time since the independence of the country, with an aim to eradicating such organisations before the next parliamentary election.Responding to recommendations of different intelligence agencies, the police headquarters in early August sent a proposal to the home ministry for banning the outfits, sources said.On Thursday, the home ministry ...
(read more) Monday, September 8th, 2008Unable to find space in Chittagong Port sheds for unloading cargo, a vessel loaded with 1,399 imported reconditioned vehicles worth over Tk 100 crore is likely to leave the port's outer anchorage soon.If it happens, it would be the first instance in the history of the country's premier seaport that a vehicle-laden ship has to leave the port without unloading its cargo lacking permission to berth.The roll-in-and-roll-out ship named MV Morning Bridge, a Panama flag carrier, has been waiting since September 3 at the outer anchorage to offload the vehicles.The Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) refused to allow ...
(read more) Monday, September 8th, 2008Academic activities of institutions, from primary schools to college, are being seriously hampered as several hundred institutes in 23 districts are either submerged or have been turned into shelters for flood-affected people.This is forcing authorities to keep the institutes closed and postpone examinations.Most of the flood shelters the government opened up are in educational institutions, according to the Ministry of Food and Disaster Management.According to the Flood Control Centre, flooding this year has destroyed 28 educational institutions and damaged 166 others. A total of 13,226 people have taken shelter in 33 education institutions which have been declared shelters by the ...
(read more) Monday, September 8th, 2008The Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested four students of a private technology institute in the city's Mirpur in connection with hacking its website after around 24 hours of the incident on Friday.The youths, who are all fourth semester students of computer science at SAIC Institute and Technology Management, said they hacked the website of the elite crime-busting force for adventure.The arrestees are Abu Musa Mirza Kamruzzaman Shahee, son of sub-inspector of police Mubashwer Ali Mirza of Chicksha village under Fenchuganj upazila in Sunamganj, Syed Mohammad Istiaq, son of Syed Nowsher Ali of Ranabijoypur village of K Ali Dargah in Bagerhat, ...
(read more) Monday, September 8th, 2008The Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested four students of a private technology institute in the city's Mirpur in connection with hacking its website after around 24 hours of the incident on Friday.The youths, who are all fourth semester students of computer science at SAIC Institute and Technology Management, said they hacked the website of the elite crime-busting force for adventure.The arrestees are Abu Musa Mirza Kamruzzaman Shahee, son of sub-inspector of police Mubashwer Ali Mirza of Chicksha village under Fenchuganj upazila in Sunamganj, Syed Mohammad Istiaq, son of Syed Nowsher Ali of Ranabijoypur village of K Ali Dargah in Bagerhat, ...
(read more) Monday, September 8th, 2008Chief Adviser (CA) Fakhruddin Ahmed yesterday said the government is working on a permanent solution to the havoc caused by river erosion by building permanent flood-protection embankment and implementing other measures in the country's flood-prone areas.He said this while talking to reporters after distributing food relief among flood-affected people at Spur-1 on Bogra's Sariakandi flood-protection embankment.Earlier, he visited the eroded portion of the embankment at Talukdarpara.Fakhruddin said he has already instructed the authorities concerned to finish all development work in the dry season completing the tender process by December.He said he has discussed ways of permanent prevention of river erosion ...
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