Archive for October 1st, 2009
Thursday, October 1st, 2009The government yesterday formed a committee to sketch a rapid strategic plan to raise $5-10 billions which would help the country finance 7,000 MW electricity generation in next five years.The committee will frame the plan on how this fund can be raised, which authority would take care of it or under which law should it operate and address many other issues related to this first of its kind fund.Ziaul Hasan Siddique, deputy governor of Bangladesh Bank, will head the committee that was formed at a meeting chaired by State Minister for Power Enamul Haque. Energy Adviser to Prime Minister Dr ...
(read more) Thursday, October 1st, 2009A district court yesterday granted bail to one of the five warranted accused in a case filed against Rid Pharmaceutical Ltd.The court reissued arrest warrants against the other four absconding accused and fixed October 27 for the next hearing.Begum Sheuli Rahman, a director of the pharmaceutical company whose paracetamol syrup caused severe renal failure in children and claimed 28 so far, appeared before Brahmanbaria District and Sessions Judge AFM Mustofa, appealing for bail.Sheuli, also wife of Rid Pharma MD Mizanur Rahman, earlier got six months' anticipatory bail from the High Court.Abdul Khayer Chowdhury, assistant director of Bangladesh Drug Administration (Comilla ...
(read more) Thursday, October 1st, 2009Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) has not carried out any special preventive drive against dengue fever in the past 4-5 years attributing it to low incidence of the disease, and inadequate manpower and equipment.Medical experts say dengue is an endemic disease and an annual phenomenon.The DCC has not procured any larvicide in the current fiscal year and has decided not to clean up mosquito breeding grounds under the jurisdiction of other agencies.“We have not carried out any special drive to eradicate larvae of Ades mosquito (Ades causes dengue) as incidence of dengue fever came down in the last few years,” said ...
(read more) Thursday, October 1st, 2009At least 75 people were killed and thousands more trapped underneath rubble after a major earthquake hit Indonesia's Sumatra island yesterday, officials said.Vice President Jusuf Kalla announced the death toll at a news conference, hours after the 7.6-magnitude quake hit off the coast of the town of Padang on Wednesday.Large buildings, including hospitals and hotels, caved in while fires raged in the coastal city of Padang, home to nearly a million people, as communications and power remained cut hours after the 7.6-magnitude quake."Houses and buildings have collapsed, causing thousands of people to be trapped inside in the rubble," Health Ministry ...
(read more) Thursday, October 1st, 2009Seven out of 11 terminated doctors of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) yesterday served a joint legal notice to the BSMMU authorities seeking justice while two others applied for contractual appointments.Advocate Ahsanul Karim served the notice on behalf of Prof Matiur Rahman Mollah of Dental Department, Prof Nasim Akhter Chowdhury of Gynaecology, Prof Abul Kashem Chowdhury of Microbiology, Prof SA Khan of Transplant Urology, Jahangir Kabir of Nephrology, Prof Sayeba Akhter of Gynaecology and Associate Prof Sharif Hossain of Plastic Surgery.Prof Sayeba Akhter of Gynaecology yesterday also submitted a letter to University Registrar Abdul Gafur to review her termination.Prof ...
(read more) Thursday, October 1st, 2009A male giraffe at Dhaka Zoo died yesterday morning following the death of a female of the same species on September 8, revealing poor health management at the zoo.The number of animal deaths in a month now stands at four including a tiger, a lion and two giraffes, while 22 animals died so far in one year.The government has formed a probe committee in this regard.An official from the Dhaka Zoo suspects it could be "sabotage" as the giraffe was recovering from illness and looked quiet good yesterday morning even half an hour before its death."Two giraffes have been ill ...
(read more) Thursday, October 1st, 2009Towering tsunamis churned up by a huge earthquake slammed into the Samoan islands on Tuesday, killing at least 113 people as they wiped out entire villages and flattened tourist resorts.Monster waves that witnesses and officials said measured between three and 7.5 metres high pounded the remote Pacific islands of Samoa and Western Samoa after an 8.0-magnitude undersea quake struck in the early morning.While the quake toppled buildings and sent thousands fleeing to high ground as the tsunami approached, many others were hit by the walls of water that swept people and cars out to sea and obliterated coastal settlements.US President ...
(read more) Thursday, October 1st, 2009Family of the Kalapara gang-rape victim went into hiding leaving home on Tuesday after police remained inactive against the rapists amidst reprisal from the perpetrators.Meanwhile, Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Kalapara Police Station Ishaq Ali claimed that the girl (victim) submitted a written statement to the police station yesterday declaring she was not raped.Father of the teenaged schoolgirl, who was kidnapped and gang-raped by 10 Bangladesh Chhatra League activists on Friday, left his house along with his wife, three daughters and a son.Relatives of the victim said they are afraid of revealing the family's present whereabouts; that would earn them wraths from ...
(read more) Thursday, October 1st, 2009Price manipulation by Kushtia mill owners is one of the main reasons behind the recent rice price hike in the capital as well as some other parts of the country, according to a government-commissioned probe report.The probe committee, formed on Tuesday by the Kushtia district administration, found out that the millers in Kushtia's Khajanagar arbitrarily hiked rice price on the pretext of increased paddy price but failed to show documents on any recent paddy purchase.Khajanagar is one of the country's biggest rice trading hubs with concentration of around 500 rice mills there.The investigation body also said each of the millers ...
(read more) Thursday, October 1st, 2009Former caretaker government adviser Maj Gen (retd) MA Matin yesterday refused the allegations of irregularities in awarding container-handling job at Chittagong Port and raising retirement age of shipping pilots."Nothing was done at the port with bad intention," Matin told reporters after being quizzed by the Anti-Corruption Commission at the port boardroom.A two-member team of ACC also interrogated incumbent Chairman of Chittagong Port Authority RU Ahmed. They brought Matin and RU Ahmed face to face to verify their statements, sources said."Allegations of irregularities can be raised because faults or irregularities may occur while doing a work. But the intention of doing ...
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