Archive for December 14th, 2009
Monday, December 14th, 2009The process of the much-awaited trial of the war criminals would start by February, said Law Minister Shafique Ahmed on the eve of the 38th Martyred Intellectuals Day yesterday.During the Liberation War of Bangladesh, the Pakistani occupation forces and their local collaborators killed three million people, violated a quarter million women and eliminated the best Bangali brains on December 14 in a plot to cripple the nation.The law minister told The Daily Star," I can tell you that the process of the trial of the war criminals would start either in the end of January or in the beginning of ...
(read more) Monday, December 14th, 2009BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia last night announced the partial national executive committee and an expanded standing committee of her party with many new faces.She approved Khandaker Delwar Hossain to continue as the secretary general of the central executive committee until the next appointment to the post.Khaleda appointed Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir the party's senior joint secretary general.The BNP chief picked fresh faces for the seven posts of joint secretaries general. She rewarded party leaders who played important roles for the party during the state of emergency with vital positions in both the committees.As many as 12 new faces have been ...
(read more) Monday, December 14th, 2009Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said her government has initiated a process to introduce a unified curriculum for kindergartens, madrasas and primary education institutions to establish a common education standard.She said the newly formed Education Policy Formulation Committee, which aims to achieve a viable education system for the country, has already submitted its recommendations and the government is examining those and finding modalities to implement those.Hasina was addressing the opening session of the second ministerial meeting of South Asia Education for All (EFA) Forum at the city's Sonargaon Hotel with Primary and Mass Education Affairs Minister Afsarul Amin in the ...
(read more) Monday, December 14th, 2009Encroachment, earth-filling and building of illegal structures continue at different points of Buriganga, Turag, and Balu rivers defying the High Court directives, says a government report.The deputy commissioner of Gazipur submitted the report to the High Court yesterday. The report also says people are dumping sewages and garbage into the rivers contributing to their pollution.However, the government has taken steps to stop the illegal activities, the district administration informed the court.Earlier this year, river encroachment and construction of unauthorised structures on rivers were declared illegal in an HC verdict.Besides, the HC in separate orders directed the government ...
(read more) Monday, December 14th, 2009It is now almost certain that the two year-long demand of Bangladesh and small island nations for a legally binding agreement will not be met in Copenhagen as the time has already run out with lots of other issues unresolved.Meanwhile, Danish police yesterday released nearly 1,000 protesters who were detained during a mass rally on Saturday demanding strong actions from delegates at the UN climate conference.In the first segment the UN climate talks have made some progress but still many of the toughest issues such as greenhouse gas emission target by 2020 and financing for poor nations to ...
(read more) Monday, December 14th, 2009Goalkeeper Arindam Bhattacharja made two saves in the shootout as a young India side regained regional supremacy by beating Maldives 3-1 in the tie-breaker in the final of the Bangabandhu Sixth SAFF Championship at the Bangabandhu National Stadium yesterday.The match rolled into a tiebreaker after both teams failed to break the evening's duck during the regulation 90 minutes and the 30-minute extra-time.It represents a great success for Sukhvinder Singh and his charges, as the spirited U-23 team held off the much-vaunted Maldives side, featuring Ashfaq Ali.India have lifted the SAFF Championships thrice before, but this fourth triumph represents ...
(read more) Monday, December 14th, 2009After six years of virtual embargo, the health ministry is finally sending a proposal to the cabinet today for appointment of 2,639 senior staff nurses against equal number of vacant posts in public hospitals.Though this recruitment of nurses is to be made on the basis of seniority and merit to end stalemate at the public hospitals, the initiative would hardly help improve availability of nurses as the present requirement for them would be more than double.Now around 12,000 nurses are serving at over 550 public hospitals and health complexes.Sources say the government's estimate of vacant posts for nurses ...
(read more) Monday, December 14th, 2009Judicial work is being greatly hampered as the government has not yet filled up the vacant posts of over 400 lower court judges.The government is delaying the appointments as it couldn't amend the recruitment rules to introduce 30 percent quota for the children of freedom fighters in line with its initiative taken in October last.Law ministry officials said the ministry had drafted the amendment of the recruitment rules and sent it to the establishment ministry for approval on November 24. The amendments are expected to be approved within this month.After approval, the law ministry will issue a gazette notification ...
(read more) Monday, December 14th, 2009Over 1,000 people have been killed in law enforcers' custody in the names of "crossfire", "encounter" or "gunfight" in violation of human rights since formation of Rapid Action Battalion in 2004, the country's two leading human rights organisations said yesterday.Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST) and Ain O Salish Kendra (ASK) will present the data before the High Court that will hold hearing today on the suo-moto ruling on extra-judicial killings in custody.The two organisations as parties in this case will fight a legal battle at the HC to put a stop to extra-judicial killings, which the government ...
(read more) Monday, December 14th, 2009In mysterious incidents of a series of heists, criminals ransacked three more government offices in Natore early yesterday, just a day after similar incidents of robberies at two other public offices in Rajshahi.Tying up four on-duty night guards, the gang swooped on Natore District Secondary Education Office, Natore Technical School and College at Madrasa crossing and a warehouse of Bangladesh Agriculture Development Corporation (BADC) at Kanaikhali in the town in between Saturday midnight and 2:00am yesterday. They also ransacked nine rooms of these government establishments.Officials concerned and police could not trace any clues to the incidents as nothing ...
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