Archive for October 21st, 2008
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008Finally, anti-liberation Jamaat-e-Islami has recognised the historic Liberation War of Bangladesh in its newly revised constitution.The change of policy was forced upon it by its desperation to keep itself legitimised as a parliamentary party registered with the Election Commission (EC), in the face of new amendments to the Representation of the People Order (RPO).The amended RPO says the constitution of a political party seeking registration cannot contradict the country's constitution.Jamaat's provisional constitution which was submitted to the EC for getting registered as a parliamentary party, also renamed the organisation Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, changing its earlier name Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh.Jamaat also dropped ...
(read more) Tuesday, October 21st, 2008Absolute authority of BNP chairperson to form the party's standing and executive committees has been clipped in its revised constitution submitted to the Election Commission (EC) yesterday with the application for registration.From now on, members of the two crucial bodies will be elected at national councils in efforts to ensure democratic practices within the organisation, said BNP sources citing the provisional charter.The party chief's sole power to expel anyone and dissolve or reconstitute any committee too has been trimmed.It was this authority that saw expulsion of former secretary general Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan and joint secretary general Ashraf Hossain ...
(read more) Tuesday, October 21st, 2008The caretaker government will sit with political parties again this week for a second round of dialogues, aiming to reach a consensus on an atmosphere conducive to holding a credible election, a government adviser said yesterday.The issue of bringing qualitative changes to the body politic will also feature prominently in the talks, he added."It is necessary to hold another round of talks to discuss the two issues. I hope we will be able to resume it by October 23," said Commerce and Education Adviser Hossain Zillur Rahman.Talks between the government and Awami League (AL) will be held at 2:30pm on ...
(read more) Tuesday, October 21st, 2008Clashes between the students of Dhaka College and Dhaka City College, campus violence at Jagannath University and Dhaka Polytechnic Institute over separate matters yesterday left at least 60 people injured.The injured included the vice principal and two teachers of City College, more than 50 students and six police personnel.Students of Dhaka College and City College clashed twice over eve teasing while clashes between police and activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) and Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) at Jagannath University broke out over admission form distribution. And two factions of BCL at the Polytechnic Institute fought over domination at a ...
(read more) Tuesday, October 21st, 2008The traffic department of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) is releasing seized unfit buses due to insufficient dumping space in Rajarbagh Police Lines.The DMP launched a drive on October 17 against buses without fitness certificates and route permits, seized about 500 buses and filed over 3,000 cases in the last four days.However, DMP had to stop the drive due to shortage of space. The traffic policemen seized over 103 buses yesterday, 230 on Sunday, 108 on Saturday and 59 on Friday.Sources say over 300 of the buses have already been handed to the owners after they paid fines and ...
(read more) Tuesday, October 21st, 2008It is beyond anyone's imagination that installing simply a pan in a toilet might need 122 labourers, but such is the case, at least on papers.The officials of Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Ltd (BTCL), former BTTB, Khulna Division, showed deployment of 122 labourers for the task, enough for a couple of workers and misappropriated huge amount of money for their wages.To go side by side with their colleagues in the race of corruption, another office of BTCL, Khulna Division, showed deployment of 100 labourers to clear its safety tanks, nearby weeds and repair power connection.These were the means of corruption committed ...
(read more) Tuesday, October 21st, 2008A five-member committee yesterday collected samples of the eight milk-powder brands tested positive for toxic melamine to retest them at laboratories home and abroad for confirmation.The committee handed in the samples to a 12-member expert committee formed yesterday, a commerce ministry official said.The expert committee will send the samples in a day or two to laboratories of Bangladesh Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (BSCSIR) and Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC) and to an internationally recognised laboratory abroad.The expert committee, headed by Mohammad Ali Patwary, joint secretary at the commerce ministry, will supervise the whole issue as to the presence ...
(read more) Tuesday, October 21st, 2008Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojahid thinks the country's constitution can have an article to prevent abuse of emergency provisions.If people want, he said, the next parliament may consider this.In an interview with The Daily Star on October 17, he alleged that the donor agencies interfered in the country's internal affairs last year to foil the parliamentary polls then scheduled for January 22.The roles that some of them had played contributed to the nation's being in troubled waters, he observed in reference to the changeover of 1/11.“The upcoming election is an internal matter of ours. None of the ...
(read more) Tuesday, October 21st, 2008Mashrafe Bin Mortaza ran hard from point to short third-man, picked up the ball and in one swooping motion gave Bangladesh a much-needed spark at the end of the fourth day of the first Test against New Zealand yesterday.With the Tigers fast losing grip on the match at the Chittagong Divisional Stadium, Mashrafe hit the stumps and found Jesse Ryder, on 38 and chasing a second run, well short of his crease two overs before the close of yet another fascinating day's cricket that saw the visitors staging a remarkable fightback in their pursuit of a daunting 316 runs for ...
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