Archive for June 7th, 2009
Sunday, June 7th, 2009The government has decided to introduce 'National Service' programme at upazila level from the next fiscal year to train and provide jobs to unemployed HSC-passed youths for a two-year term, Finance Minister AMA Muhith said yesterday.The programme will be introduced initially in three upazilas in the next fiscal year and gradually expanded to other upazilas across the country as part of the ruling party's move to fulfil its election pledges.After receiving training for six months, youths who have completed HSC will be employed in the agriculture, social welfare and housing and public works ministries for one and a half ...
(read more) Sunday, June 7th, 2009Deputy Assistant Director (DAD) Touhidul Alam yesterday confessed before magistrate of a Dhaka court to have led the planning of the BDR mutiny and all operations during the carnage.Terming the confession a big step forward, sources in the CID said Touhid, prime accused in the BDR carnage case, admitted that he had taken the leadership as rebel Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) jawans gave him the responsibility.Sources in the CID, which is investigating the case, said in the three-hour-long confession Touhid said he had led a team of 14 BDR mutineers to the talks with the prime minister at her residence Jamuna ...
(read more) Sunday, June 7th, 2009Officials involved in the ongoing government drive for demolishing illegal structures in the Turag river, yesterday expressed an urgent need for excavators to remove the debris, for recovering the river's encroached upon channel.Abul Bashar Md Amir Uddin, the on-duty magistrate from Gazipur district administration, who is helping Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) in the drive, told The Daily Star that they need another team, which will work with an excavator and some other modern equipment to remove the debris following demolitions.The huge volume of debris generated during a demolition must immediately be removed to render the recovered land ...
(read more) Sunday, June 7th, 2009English in Schools (EIS), a joint initiative by The Daily Star and Aktel, offers a unique opportunity for the students to learn English and prepare to meet the global challenges, educationists and policymakers said yesterday.“This is to bring about a revolutionary change that will not only help students learn English, but also develop a lasting reading habit and broaden their knowledge base,” said Dhaka University (DU) Vice-chancellor Professor AAMS Arefin Siddique at an orientation session for school teachers.At least 376 headmasters and English teachers from 189 schools under Dhaka zone attended the event at Emmanuelle's Convention Centre in the capital's ...
(read more) Sunday, June 7th, 2009Finance Minister AMA Muhith yesterday said a single counter at the sub-registrar's offices will receive all land registration fees to reduce existing registration hassles from September 1.Muhith said currently people pay different kinds of fees for registration at separate sections of an office, leading to payment of a significant amount of bribe by both buyers and sellers at each table.The minister urged the sub-registrars to restore the heritage of the sub-registry offices by serving the people without any repression, oppression, bribe or threats."I don't think there is any need for a survey department to survey the land. It has created ...
(read more) Sunday, June 7th, 2009A fire at a daycare centre in northern Mexico has killed at least 31 young children and left dozens of others injured, police and officials said yesterday.Many of the victims from Friday's blaze -- children aged between three months and two years -- died from asphyxiation, officials said.The death toll continued to rise into the weekend. "We continue to get the bodies out," Jose Larrinaga, a spokesman for the local prosecutor's office, told reporters after the fire died down, adding it was too early to announce a final toll.In desperate scenes, local residents smashed the cement walls of the centre ...
(read more) Sunday, June 7th, 2009Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI), the country's leading business chamber, yesterday pledged to work for saving the rivers of the country.An MCCI delegation, led by its president Abdul Hafiz Choudhury, came to The Daily Star office and said the chamber will make it mandatory for its members to be compliant with pollution control regulations.The MCCI also said it would hold meetings with wider range of stakeholders of industries concerned to chalk out an action plan. It would create a win-win situation for industrial development and protection of the environment.The chamber felt that the department of environment has to ...
(read more) Sunday, June 7th, 2009The government is going to allow whitening money by paying 10 percent tax if invested in some specific sectors including infrastructure, while honest taxpayers now pay 10 to 25 percent tax on their income.Money can also be whitened from the next fiscal year (FY) by paying 10 percent tax if invested in share market, and fixed amounts of tax in buying flats.Besides, the budget for next FY to be placed in the Jatiya Sangsad on June 11 will contain a new system of tax holiday under which 5, 10 and 15 percent tax have to be paid.Finance ministry sources ...
(read more) Sunday, June 7th, 2009Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday reiterated her government's commitment to handing down exemplary punishment to the perpetrators of the massacre at the Pilkhana BDR headquarters.“Persons involved in the massacre will be given exemplary punishment. The trial will begin soon,” AL spokesperson and LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Syed Ashraful Islam told reporters quoting Hasina after the Awami League (AL) Central Working Committee meeting at the premier's political office in the city's Dhanmondi.The meeting with Hasina in the chair decided to ensure coordination between the party and the government for implementing its vision for 'digital Bangladesh' and the charter for ...
(read more) Sunday, June 7th, 2009Awami League (AL) observes the historic 7th June today to commemorate the six-point movement it launched 42 years ago demanding autonomy of erstwhile East Pakistan.The six-point movement, marked by the supreme sacrifice of Sramik League leader Manu Mia, Shafiq and Shamsul Haq, paved the way for the Bengalees' final struggle for independence in 1971 under the leadership of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.Bangabandhu announced his historic six-point political and economic programme in Lahore in 1966, aiming to attain greater autonomy of East Pakistan.To mark the day, AL has chalked out elaborate programmes. President Zillur Rahman and Prime Minister Sheikh ...
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