Archive for October 11th, 2009
Sunday, October 11th, 2009The government plans to curb the Anti-Corruption Commission's mandate so it cannot act unilaterally to file graft cases against public officials, policymakers, lawmakers and other representatives.The cabinet committee, formed in March to review the ACC act and recommend changes necessary to make the anti-graft body more effective and pro-people, has already drafted some proposals to that end and forwarded those to the commission for opinion.It suggests the graft busters should be obliged to take permission from the government to bring proceedings in certain circumstances and against someone believed to have “committed the offence in good faith”.At present, the anti-corruption act ...
(read more) Sunday, October 11th, 2009In the wake of the mobilisation of a huge number of Myanmarese troops along the border, Bangladesh is making all-out preparations to thwart any incursion attempt by them, highly placed sources in the government said.Bangladesh has already sent three army brigades to its hilly border with Myanmar and has readied another brigade following the deliberate provocative moves the latter, sources said.Intelligence officials said Bangladesh Armed Forces are taking special exercises to handle any eventualities if all diplomatic channels to resolve the conflict are exhausted.The Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) has imposed restriction on all kinds of leaves, a move which is taken ...
(read more) Sunday, October 11th, 2009The Information Commission formed more than three months ago is facing difficulties in enforcing the Right to Information (RTI) Act since it is yet to have a permanent office, required manpower and logistics.The government has not also framed rules necessary for proper implementation of the act that came into effect on 1 July to ensure people's access to information.Setting up of an information delivery unit in every government office and appointment of an officer to provide citizens with their required information are also going on at a slow pace. The RTI act provides for these.The Awami League government formed the ...
(read more) Sunday, October 11th, 2009Several gunmen who escaped after the attack last morning on the Pakistan army HQ near Islamabad had taken some security personnel hostage and were encircled by troops, a military spokesman said."There are more than two terrorists who have taken some security personnel as hostages. Efforts are under way for their safe recovery," army spokesman Major General Athar Abbas told state-run Pakistan television."Security forces have surrounded the terrorists. We are trying to recover the hostages safely," he added.Earlier gunmen wearing military uniforms and wielding assault rifles and grenades attacked Pakistan's army headquarters, sparking a ferocious gunbattle outside the capital that left ...
(read more) Sunday, October 11th, 2009Several gunmen who escaped after the attack last morning on the Pakistan army HQ near Islamabad had taken some security personnel hostage and were encircled by troops, a military spokesman said."There are more than two terrorists who have taken some security personnel as hostages. Efforts are under way for their safe recovery," army spokesman Major General Athar Abbas told state-run Pakistan television."Security forces have surrounded the terrorists. We are trying to recover the hostages safely," he added.Earlier gunmen wearing military uniforms and wielding assault rifles and grenades attacked Pakistan's army headquarters, sparking a ferocious gunbattle outside the capital that left ...
(read more) Sunday, October 11th, 2009BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's bid to reorganise and rejuvenate the party is thwarted by her own right-hand man--BNP Secretary General Khandaker Delwar Hossain, said party insiders.Due to this conflict between the two top leaders reformation of the party, which conceded a disastrous defeat in the last parliamentary elections, has become uncertain.Khaleda and Delwar's disagreement revovlves around crucial issues like bringing back so-called reformists into confidence, selecting the head of the party's vital committee in Dhaka and speeding up the reorganising process in the party.The party had earlier announced the central council to be held by the end of this year ...
(read more) Sunday, October 11th, 2009The lawmakers elected to reserve seats for women in parliament spend time flattering their party chiefs rather than talking about women-related issues, Speaker Abdul Hamid said yesterday."You [lawmakers elected to reserve seats] talk a lot about women-related issues outside but do not raise those in the House," Abdul Hamid told a discussion at the Centre on Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific (Cirdap) auditorium in the capital.Bangladesh Mahila Parishad organised the meeting titled "Women movement's expectations from female lawmakers."Pointing to the BNP lawmakers present there, Hamid said, "You have attended the meeting along with female lawmakers of the ...
(read more) Sunday, October 11th, 2009Miscreants ransacked and burnt the photographs of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at Muksudpur early morning yesterday.Police arrested Noor Mohammad Nuru Gazi, 28, on charges of involvement in the incident.Officer-In-Charge (OC) of Muksudpur Police Station AKM Liakat Ali said a sedition case had been filed in this connection.Seven youths of Maharajpur union broke in the Bangabandhu Club at Banogram Bazar under Muksudpur upazila at around 2:00am yesterday. The club has been used as the office of Union Awami League.Muksudpur upazila AL publicity secretary Kazi Ohidul Islam said, Raichh Khandker, Noor Mohammad ...
(read more) Sunday, October 11th, 2009Criticising the NGOs' micro-credit system, Social Welfare Minister Enamul Huq Mostafa Shaheed yesterday said their loan distribution could not bring any remarkable change in the lives of the deprived, underprivileged and handicapped people of the country.“An economist of the country has won the Nobel Peace Prize for his micro-credit initiatives, but the question is has there been any change in the lives of the country's poor? …this needs to be analysed,” he told a meeting at Chittagong Circuit House.The meeting was arranged for exchange of views with representatives of the NGOs being run in the Chittagong division.Enamul Huq said the ...
(read more) Sunday, October 11th, 2009A regional leader of outlawed Biplobi Communist Party (BCP) was killed in a 'shootout' between his cohorts and police at Barabaria village under Mirpur upazila in Kushtia yesterday.The deceased, Maznu Mondol alias Abdullah, 36, son of late Sawdagar Mondol of Chakmondolpur of Mirpur upazila was accused in six cases, including two for murder, police said.Acting on a tip-off, a joint team from detective branch and Mirpur police raided Barabaria graveyard where some BCP cadres were holding a meeting around 4:30am.The outlaws defied orders of the law enforcers to surrender and opened fire forcing them to retaliate.The law enforcers later found ...
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