Archive for November 1st, 2009
Sunday, November 1st, 2009At least two persons were killed and 100 others injured including 15 police personnel in Tongi yesterday in a string of clashes between the law enforcers and several hundred garment workers who were protesting sudden closure of their factory without payment of arrears.Confirming the deaths, Second Officer of Tongi Police Station Zahidul Islam said one of the dead was identified as Bablu Sheikh, a rickshaw van puller, whose wife Roksana works at the factory.He said Bablu received bullets when, hearing the news of the clash, he went near the factory to look for his wife.Roksana had also told reporters in ...
(read more) Sunday, November 1st, 2009BNP has sent a three-page rejoinder under the signature of its secretary general Khandaker Delwar Hossain, regarding our report headlined "Aug 21 attack on Hasina, AL Rally: It was Hawa Bhaban Plot" published on October 27, 2009. We publish full text of the rejoinder below:1. Our attention has been drawn to the above report which has blatantly attempted to disgrace and defame Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its leaders. We strongly condemn this maliciously concocted libellous report.2. It is clear to us that the purpose of this propaganda is to (a) hurt deeply the reputation, status and popularity of ...
(read more) Sunday, November 1st, 2009The government will investigate all cases of extra-judicial killings and try them, Law Minister Shafique Ahmed said yesterday.The present government is against any kind of extra-judicial killing and committed to protect the fundamental human rights of people, he said, adding that the government in its nine months in power has taken many steps to implement these commitments.Addressing as chief guest at the inauguration of a pilot scheme titled "Human Rights Training for Law Officers and Legal Practitioners" at Hotel Sonargaon yesterday morning, he said the government would hold trials for crimes against humanity that took place since 1971 to ...
(read more) Sunday, November 1st, 2009Opener Tamim Iqbal came to the party with a big knock as Bangladesh recorded another comfortable four-wicket victory over an erratic Zimbabwe at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium yesterday to take a 2-1 lead in the five-match Grameenphone Cup.Tamin blasted 80 off 72 balls and Mohammad Ashraful, for a welcome change, hit a watchful 63 as Bangladesh reached 198 for five in 40.4 overs.Tamim hammered 10 fours and two sixes in a polished knock while Ashraful, who has been going through a lean patch, struck seven fours and a six in his 91-ball vigil.The win completed a fine turnaround ...
(read more) Sunday, November 1st, 2009The government is going to construct 1,202 flats and sell those to government officials and low and middle-income group people in Dhaka on hire-purchase basis in next three years.A proposal for constructing 258 of these flats at a cost of Tk 73 crore would be placed at the Cabinet Committee on Government Purchase (CCGP) meeting to be chaired by Finance Minister AMA Muhith today.According to the project proposal, the government would construct total 1,020 flats (each 1,000 by 800 sq feet) in Mohammadpur A Block for sale to small and middle income-group people on hire-purchases basis.Seventeen buildings, each having 16 ...
(read more) Sunday, November 1st, 2009A housing society is filling up the age-old Atir Khal (canal) at Waaspur on the outskirts of the capital, claiming that it has necessary documents for the land.Atir Khal originates from the Buriganga at Waaspur and passes through dozens of trade centres and villages before falling into the same river at Kholamora some 10 km downstream. The canal serves lakhs along its route. Regular launch service from Kholamora and boat service between Ati and Swarighat ferry thousands of commuters from the area every day.Contacted, Secretary of Waaspur Garden City Cooperative Society Md Shafique said his company is just filling up ...
(read more) Sunday, November 1st, 2009Police rescued a schoolboy in the city in the early hours yesterday, 14 days after he was kidnapped and held hostage on October 16.The hostage, Faisal Uddin Javed, 15, is a student of class nine in Hamzarbag Rahmania High School.Police also arrested one of the kidnappers, identified as Azam Khan alias Babu, 27.Police rescued him around 2:00am from a bathroom of Abdur Rob Hazi's abandoned house in Shahnagar village of Fatikchhari upazila. He was lying there with hands tied up and gagged.Javed, son of Shahjahan, an expatriate in Qatar, was abducted on his way to a wedding ceremony from ...
(read more) Sunday, November 1st, 2009Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government will decentralise power for people's empowerment at the grassroots level.She observed that power is very much centralised in Bangladesh as the country was ruled by many military dictators for a long time after the assassination of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975.The prime minister was addressing the inaugural function of a two-day training workshop titled 'E-Governance, Service at Doorsteps' arranged for the UNOs by the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) at a PMO auditorium.The workshop was arranged as part ...
(read more) Sunday, November 1st, 2009A Dhaka court yesterday placed Kamrul Haque Swapan and Freedom Party leader Abdur Rahim on fresh four-day remand each in a case filed in connection with the bomb attack on Awami League lawmaker Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh.Assistant Commissioner of Police Akbar Hossain, also investigation officer of the case, produced Swapan, younger brother of Bangabandhu murder case convict Maj (retd) Dalim, and Abdur Rahim before the court with a prayer for seven-day remand each.The court of Magistrate AKM Emdaul Haque granted four-day remands for both of them.In the forwarding letter placed before the court, Akbar said police found Swapan and Rahim's ...
(read more) Sunday, November 1st, 2009At least five persons drowned and 10 others missing as a boat capsized on Gulishakhali river at Morichbunia village under Patuakhali Sadar upazila yesterday.The victims were identified as Rezia Begum, 70, wife of Denaly Boyatee of Padma village, Rabbi, 4, son of Golam Mostafa, Rakib, 2, son of Motaleb of Baliatali village under Barguna district. Other two bodies remain unidentified.Among the dead, Rakib died at Patuakhali General Hospital after he was admitted there.Of the injured Amena, Rahat, Motaleb, Sahana, Rakhi were also admitted there.Sources said the boat was capsized with over 70 passengers while it was returning to Padma from ...
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