Archive for November 16th, 2009
Monday, November 16th, 2009The government yesterday cancelled all leases of the riverbanks given by the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) on daily basis and decided to stop unauthorised sand trading for checking river pollution and maintaining navigability.The government also decided to cancel gradually leases on long-term and yearly basis given by the BIWTA except for those having public interest. The leases given only for kitchen markets, landing stations and docks for fuel oil will be allowed to continue.The decisions were taken at a meeting of the high-powered taskforce formed to make recommendations and take implementation measures for ensuring navigability of the ...
(read more) Monday, November 16th, 2009A Dhaka court yesterday asked the officer-in-charge of Brahmanbaria Sadar police station to appear before it in person by January 5 next year to explain his failure to submit reports on execution of property attachment of three defendants in a case against Rid Pharmaceutical.On October 14 this year, the court ordered the attachment of movable and immovable properties of five Rid officials -- Managing Director Mizanur Rahman, directors Sheuli Rahman and Abdul Gani, and pharmacists Mahbubul Islam and Enamul Haque -- in the case filed against them for manufacturing toxic paracetamol syrup that claimed the lives of at least ...
(read more) Monday, November 16th, 2009Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged the United Arab Emirates' government to recruit more manpower from Bangladesh side by side investing in the power and energy sectors of the country.She made the call while holding a meeting with the UAE Vice-President, Prime Minister and ruler of Dubai Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum at the VIP lounge of the Dubai international Airport.The Bangladesh premier visited Dubai on an invitation of her UAE counterpart during her stay there on way to Rome to attend the World Summit on Food Security beginning today in the Italian capital.The UAE PM gave assurance to ...
(read more) Monday, November 16th, 2009The home ministry has convened a special meeting with lawmakers of the Dhaka city and the mayor of Dhaka City Corporation tomorrow ahead of the final verdict of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman assassination case on November 19.Home Secretary Abdus Sobhan Sikder told The Daily Star that the ministry sought to ensure involvement of all concerned so that no conspiracy regarding the verdict and its execution can be succeed.“The country will be on full alert until execution of the verdict and there is no scope of slackness in this regard,” said the home secretary.Home ministry officials said the meeting had been ...
(read more) Monday, November 16th, 2009With the world leaders converging at a three-day World Summit on Food Security in Rome today to give a new momentum to the fight against hunger, Bangladesh commits to eradicate domestic hunger by becoming food self-sufficient by 2013 and making food available to the vulnerable.On the eve of the summit, first of its kind since 2002, food officials in Dhaka told The Daily Star the country's overall food output this year is adequate to meet up the domestic demand. Bangladesh is poised well with over a million tonnes of food stock in reserve now. But obviously there is a question ...
(read more) Monday, November 16th, 2009BDR headquarters yesterday constituted six special courts, two of them in Dhaka, as per the Bangladesh Rifles Order 1972 to initiate trials of the February 25-26 mutineers.The BDR director general will head each of the three-member courts that will have a lieutenant colonel and a major as the two other members, says a BDR press release.Lawyers nominated by the attorney general will assist the special courts, which will only conduct mutiny trial, the release says.Special court-1 will deal with mutiny in Khulna, Rajshahi and Kushtia sectors, special court-2 with cases in Dinajpur and Rangpur sectors, special court-3 will cover Sylhet, ...
(read more) Monday, November 16th, 2009Over a hundred year has elapsed since the country's botanical treasure trove Baldha Garden came into being which has remained uncared and unattended for long with its rare collection of exotic plants facing the onslaught of billboards, high-rise buildings, pollution and water logging.The plants are gasping for sunlight as several high-rise buildings have encompassed it from three sides over the years hindering the natural growth of the plants. On top of that, billboards are adding woe to their misery.Water logging in the garden following a slight rainfall during monsoon is the cause of another major concern.Pollution from ...
(read more) Monday, November 16th, 2009The conflicts between the local government representatives and the members of parliament (MP) arise out of self-interests, not of people's welfare, Speaker Abdul Hamid said yesterday.“If there are no issues of personal interests, there is no conflict between them, because we all want people's welfare where there is no scope of clashes,” he said while addressing a seminar as the chief guest at the city's Cirdap auditorium.The Municipal Association of Bangladesh (MAB) organised the seminar on the role of municipalities in reducing poverty with support from United States Agency for International Development and Progati, an NGO. Lawmakers, mayors of ...
(read more) Monday, November 16th, 2009BNP leader and former deputy minister Abdus Salam Pintu was placed on a five-day remand in a case filed for the bomb attack on Awami League office at Chashara in Narayanganj in 2001.Chief Judicial Magistrate of Narayanganj Arifur Rahman passed the remand order after Criminal Investigation Department (CID) produced him before the court seeking a 10-day remand.The BNP leader, on Thursday, was shown arrested in the case following a petition submitted by investigation officer of the case Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Yusuf Ali Mollah.Earlier, Pintu was arrested in connection with the grenade attack on an Awami League rally ...
(read more) Monday, November 16th, 2009In a significant development the Land Survey Department has identified river encroachers and demarcated eighty percent of four rivers around Dhaka.Informed by the Land Survey Department the parliamentary standing committee on the land ministry yesterday at a meeting asked the law ministry to appeal to the High Court seeking one more month to complete the demarcation task."The Land Survey Department today informed the standing committee members that it had almost completed the task of demarcating four rivers--Buriganga, Balu, Turag and Shitalakhya -- in line with the High Court (HC) direction," AKM Mozammel Huq, chairman of the committee, told ...
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