Archive for December 25th, 2008
Thursday, December 25th, 2008As many as 142 candidates from 40 constituencies spent on average about Tk 3.04 lakh each for campaigns before electioneering was allowed as per electoral laws, says Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB).The candidates from Awami League, BNP and Jamaat along with independent ones had already spent about Tk 4.32 crore by the time campaigning was allowed 21 days before the national election.However, this tendency is less this year compared to the cancelled election of January 22 last year, said TIB Trustee Board Chairman Prof Muzaffer Ahmad at a press conference at Dhaka Reporters Unity yesterday.Prof Muzaffer said the reduction in illegal ...
(read more) Thursday, December 25th, 2008Tuesday's busting of two JMB operatives with grenades and bomb in Comilla is another blow at the law enforcers who had a feeling that the militant outfit would not be able soon to organise again after the execution of their key leaders.To their utter dismay, the law enforcers came to know how the operatives of Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh were organising again under the leadership of Maulana Saidur Rahman, the outfit's new ameer after Abdur Rahman's execution in March last year.The recovery of grenades and bomb and arrest of Aiyub Ansari alias Masud and Abdul Alim alias Nayeem was the outcome ...
(read more) Thursday, December 25th, 2008BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday ruled out any possibility of pulling out of the December 29 election race."We shall surely contest the December 29 parliamentary polls. I believe that BNP and its allies will form the next government getting people's mandate as we did in the last election," Khaleda Zia said while addressing a rally on the Pilot High School ground in her home district Feni.The former premier also alleged that a conspiracy is being hatched to keep the BNP-led four-party alliance out of the next election.Terming Awami League 'traitor', the BNP chief alleged, "They want to go ...
(read more) Thursday, December 25th, 2008Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina yesterday promised to voters of the northern districts that if her grand electoral alliance is voted to power, her government will establish a hospital for every 6,000 residents of the region.During her campaign tour of the northern districts, she also pledged food security, creation of jobs, bringing down prices of essentials within the reach of the people, and making education free up to the level of the bachelor's degree, if voted to power.At a street rally in Sirajganj, Hasina introduced to the crowd Jannat Ara Henry Talukder, grand alliance nominee in Sirajganj-2.At a rally ...
(read more) Thursday, December 25th, 2008With clean personality and family glory of Bangabandhu, Awami League-led grand alliance's Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh is ready for a tough battle with BNP's previous lawmaker Khandaker Mahabub Uddin Ahmed in Dhaka-12 constituency.Voters in the area said although eight candidates are contesting from the seat in the December 29 parliamentary election, the main fight would be between the two lawyers--one experienced and the other fresh--who hail from Gopalganj.Dhaka-12 consists of Dhanmondi residential area, Hazaribagh tannery area, New Market, Kalabagan, Jigatola and Green Road areas with 2,60,859 voters of which 1,14,844 are women. In the last election these areas were under ...
(read more) Thursday, December 25th, 2008The Election Commission (EC) has warned Speaker Jamiruddin Sircar and 12 other parliamentary contenders for violation of electoral code of conduct in their electioneering.The commission will take actions as per law if they violate the code of conduct further, EC sources said yesterday.The 12 others include Bikalpadhara Bangladesh Secretary General Maj (retd) Abdul Mannan, and five from BNP and two from Awami League.Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) ATM Shamsul Huda talked to Sircar, who is BNP-led four-party candidate, over telephone and asked him to abide by the electoral code of conduct. And the EC Secretariat sent written warning ...
(read more) Thursday, December 25th, 2008Garment worker Sumi, 28, who struggled for 18 days with burn injures sustained in a collision between a bus and an acid-laden truck on Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Comilla on November 6, died without receiving intensive care.As the Burn and Plastic Surgery Unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) has no operational Intensive Care Unit (ICU), critical burn patients like Sumi, Faysal and others had to die without receiving the care they deserved.About 15 patients out of 190 receiving treatment at the unit need intensive care, said hospital authorities."Those who receive 40 to 60 percent burns in their bodies require ...
(read more) Thursday, December 25th, 2008Secretary committee on administrative development affairs is preparing to submit the final draft to the next meeting of the council of advisers on Sunday, proposing extension of service age of the public servants.A public servant, as per the existing rules, goes on leave preparatory retirement at the age of 57. As per the proposal, the retirement age of freedom fighter civil servants will be 62, while others will retire at 60.With another such attempt initiated by a group of top bureaucrats went futile in August, they have become active again as secretaries would be the ultimate beneficiaries if the government ...
(read more) Thursday, December 25th, 2008Secretary committee on administrative development affairs is preparing to submit the final draft to the next meeting of the council of advisers on Sunday, proposing extension of service age of the public servants.A public servant, as per the existing rules, goes on leave preparatory retirement at the age of 57. As per the proposal, the retirement age of freedom fighter civil servants will be 62, while others will retire at 60.With another such attempt initiated by a group of top bureaucrats went futile in August, they have become active again as secretaries would be the ultimate beneficiaries if the government ...
(read more) Thursday, December 25th, 2008Inspector General of Police (IGP) Nur Mohammad yesterday ruled out any threat of organised attack on Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia.“There is no strong or authentic base of it,” he told an emergency meeting on law and order at the home ministry.The meeting was convened following the recovery of grenades and arrest of suspected JMB cadres in Chandina of Comilla district after the election rally of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in a nearby place on Tuesday.After the meeting, Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) Director General Hasan Mahmud Khandaker said special measures will be taken to ensure foolproof security for the two ...
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