Archive for November 3rd, 2009
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009The Criminal Investigation Department yesterday arrested Moulana Sheikh Abdus Salam, founder of banned Islamist group Harkatul Jihad al Islami (Huji), for suspected links with the August 21 grenade blasts.A Dhaka court placed the arrestee on a six-day remand in the afternoon.The detention comes a week after former BNP state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar was shown arrested in the case filed for the blasts.Queried, CID officials did not give the exact time and place of Salam's arrest. They only said they picked him up from the city yesterday.Meanwhile, a source close to Salam's family claimed a ...
(read more) Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009The hassle is about to be over. One no longer needs to go to market for shopping spending hours in traffic jams or stand in long queues to pay utility bills. All these are now possible on the internet.Bangladesh Bank yesterday introduced online payment system in the country facilitating online fund transfers and payment of utility bills through local currency credit cards.Although these services are being introduced on a smaller scale, it is considered to be the first step towards a broader online banking.This move will certainly enhance the use of e-commerce in the country and online banking ...
(read more) Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked the garment factory owners to pay the wages properly to improve the workers' standard of living.Terming the workers the driving force of a factory, the PM also asked the owners to investigate the causes of frequent labour unrest in the sector."The government will not tolerate anarchism in garment sector as this is the main source of foreign currency," said Hasina."The recent labour unrest was instigated by conspirators," the PM said.She advised the owners to construct dormitories for workers to ensure their shelter."The factory owners can take assistance from government's housing fund to build ...
(read more) Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009Following a price fall on the international market, the government yesterday cut domestic prices of non-urea fertilisers by 36 percent to boost cultivation of winter crops and boro rice."We have reduced the prices of the fertilisers, so farmers may produce crops for less," Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury said in her ministry while disclosing the price cut to the media.According to the rescheduled prices, a kilogram of triple super phosphate (TSP) is Tk 20 at dealers' level while Tk 22 at farmers' level compared to the existing farmers' level price of Tk 40.The new dealers' level price of a kilogram ...
(read more) Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009The cabinet yesterday gave final nod to the Vested Property Return (Amendment) Bill, 2009 paving the way to turn the seized property over to the real owners from the Hindus.The approval came at a regular meeting at the Cabinet Division at the Secretariat with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair.Hasina at the meeting also directed the home ministry to arrest the culprits responsible for the bomb attack on AL lawmaker Fazle Noor Taposh and unrest in the RMG sector.With the approval of the vested property bill, the government would now make it a law in parliament soon which would ...
(read more) Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009Chief counsel for the state in Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman murder case, Advocate Anisul Huq, yesterday told the Appellate Division of Supreme Court that the third judge of the High Court had lawfully and rightly upheld the lower court's convictions and death sentences of 12 convicts in the case.The nation wants to find a closure of a dark episode through the trial's conclusion. The bloody events of August 15, 1975 not only changed the lives of the bereaved family members, but altered the nation's course of history, he said.He made the arguments at the beginning of his submissions before a ...
(read more) Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009Muggers shot and injured an employee of a private company in the city's Dhanmondi area and snatched Tk 30 lakh yesterday.The victim, Liton, 30, is a receptionist of Asia Pacific Communication Ltd at Keari Plaza on Satmasjid Road.Nasir Ahmed Khan Babul, sales and marketing officer of the company, told The Daily Star that a group of three armed muggers on a motorbike stopped in front of the company's office around 12:20pm and attacked Babul and Liton when they were getting off a private car.As they tried to resist the muggers snatching a bag with Tk 30 lakh ...
(read more) Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009Police have identified those who made the bomb attack on Awami League (AL) lawmaker Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh in the capital 12 days ago, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) claimed yesterday."Detective branch (DB) of police has identified the attackers, and we are making all out efforts to arrest them. We will not disclose their names now," DMP Commissioner AKM Shahidul Haque told The Daily Star when contacted yesterday.Taposh, also a prosecution counsel in Banganandhu murder case, came under bomb attack on October 21 that left 13 people injured. He was unhurt.So far DB arrested six people in this connection. Four ...
(read more) Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009Today is Jail Killing Day, a black spot on the history of the nation, as four national leaders were assassinated inside the Dhaka Central Jail on this day in 1975.The four Liberation War heroes -- Syed Nazrul Islam, acting president of Bangladesh government in exile in 1971, Tajuddin Ahmed, prime minister of the same government, M Mansur Ali, finance minister, and AHM Qamaruzzaman, minister for home affairs, relief and rehabilitation -- were killed in captivity by some Army officers.They were assassinated 79 days after Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family members were killed on August 15, ...
(read more) Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009Apart from causing various internal difficulties, some Rohingya refugees, who have been staying in the southeastern part of Bangladesh, are now creating trouble abroad, threatening the country's overseas labour market and putting the government in a fix.Officials and experts said many Rohingya refugees are becoming voters, managing passports illegally, and migrating as workers to different countries, which may thwart government efforts to repatriate them.Around 700 Rohingyas, who already made their way to Saudi Arabia, put Bangladesh in a spot of bother after being captured. Saudi authorities arrested them and kept them in a deportation centre in Jeddah, and are now ...
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