Sunday, March 4th, 2007The joint forces prepare to seize passports of at least 200 more individuals suspected of corruption and other criminal activities to prevent them from leaving the country, said sources.So far they have seized passports of 185 former ministers and lawmakers, politicians, bureaucrats and businessmen for alleged corruption and attempts to create anarchy. Seventy of them have already been detained. All the 50 graft suspects listed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) are also among those [185].The law enforcement agencies are assisting the members of the armed forces in making the seizures, added the sources.Several names of the 200 people ...
(read more) Thursday, March 1st, 2007The joint forces arrested two local leaders of BNP and its youth wing Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal for possessing corrugated iron (CI) sheets meant for relief in Netrakona and Lalmonirhat and recovered 497 such sheets from across the country yesterday.Police and Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested 1,683 others who include 42 convicted in different criminals cases, 976 wanted criminals and 19 others accused in arms and explosives acts in 24 hours ending at 6:00am yesterday, said a home ministry press release.Members of the armed forces arrested 52 people including 35 criminals during the period.In Khulna, the joint forces recovered 300 government ...
(read more) Wednesday, February 28th, 2007The army-led joint forces yesterday arrested former BNP lawmaker from Moulvibazar 4 (Srimangal and Kamalganj) Shafiqur Rahman after raiding his house at Boruna village in Srimangal.Sources said Shafiqur, an elected member of parliament in 1996 general elections, was detained for his alleged abuse of power and for patronising criminals.Detained former BNP lawmaker from Narayanganj 4 Mohammad Giasuddin was placed on a three-day remand in a money laundering case yesterday while detained CBA leader BM Bakir Hossain was sent to jail after a Dhaka court rejected his bail petition the same day.Another detained former BNP lawmaker Salahuddin Ahmed was also sent ...
(read more) Tuesday, February 27th, 2007Three people died and at least 50 were injured as a devastating fire swept through the 11-storey Bangladesh Steel and Engineering Corporation (BSEC) Bhaban in the city's Karwan Bazar yesterday morning.Over a thousand people were evacuated as massive rescue efforts including the first-ever airborne rescue operation went on throughout the day.According to witnesses and employees of offices in the building, the fire might have originated in one of two offices--Bengal Carpet or Jamuna Oil Company Ltd--on the first floor around 10:10am.It soon spread to other floors due to the absence of effective fire extinguishers.The home ministry formed a ...
(read more) Tuesday, February 27th, 2007As Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue was covered in black smoke, it was lit up with the rare courage of men who came forward to put up a massive rescue effort to evacuate over 1,000 people from the burning building. These are their stories.The first heroes of the hour were civilians. Fellow workers, pedestrians or shop-owners from the neighbouring Karwan Bazar emerged as the sole providers of emergency support for people trapped inside the building during the first minutes of the fire.These civilians, who immediately thronged to the scene after the fire broke out, were forced by circumstances to take ...
(read more) Sunday, February 25th, 2007The joint forces and local administration yesterday recovered 1,486 acres of forestland from 15 land grabbers and demolished many illegal structures in Sonadia island in the district. They made the recovery during a five-hour drive that began at 10:00am.The illegal occupants were using those lands for more than five years for shrimp and salt farming, clearing mangrove forests, local forest department officials said.Illegal occupation of government land and indiscriminate destruction of forests have become an order of the day in Cox's Bazar coastal areas, mainly for shrimp cultivation, they mentioned.Many more forestlands in Sadar and Moheshkhali upazilas of the ...
(read more) Saturday, February 24th, 2007Police took control of the luxurious house of former BNP lawmaker Wadud Bhuiyan in Khagrachhari yesterday and joint forces recovered more relief materials from different places in the country. Meanwhile, arrested Chairman of Jamuna Group Nurul Islam Babul was sent to Jail.The joint forces arrested barrister Amir Helaluddin, son of former state minister Mir Nasiruddin, and handed him over to the Gulshan Police Station. They also arrested Jahangir Alam, Daudkandi upazila Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal president and brother-in-law of BNP leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, early yesterday.Police headquarter at a press release said they recovered firearms, nine other arms and one ...
(read more) Friday, February 23rd, 2007The government last night withdrew Special Security Force (SSF) deployed for the security of immediate past prime minister Khaleda Zia and the then leader of the opposition in parliament Sheikh Hasina.Both the leaders will continue to have police protection. Security arrangements for them might be strengthened further if needed but they will not get SSF protection, sources said.The SSF members were withdrawn from Hasina's residence around 12 midnight while sources said the SSF guards in Khaleda's security contingent were packing up later in the night.Earlier, sources at BNP chief Khaleda's Hawa Bhaban office and Awami League (AL) President Hasina's residence ...
(read more) Friday, February 23rd, 2007The joint forces yesterday seized five luxury cars, five computers, and a plasma television from the residence of former BNP lawmaker Salahuddin Ahmed in Dhaka.The same day in Jhenidah they seized relief materials from the house of Shahidul Islam Master, another ex-BNP lawmaker.Elsewhere in the country, the army-led strike force rounded up 1,582 people on various charges as part of the ongoing anti-crime drive in the 24 hours preceding 6:00am yesterday. During the raids, they recovered 13 firearms and five crackers.The joint forces seized five cars worth several crore taka, a 42-inch plasma TV and five computers from the Shyampur ...
(read more) Thursday, February 22nd, 2007Barefeet, wearing black ribbons and clutching bouquets of flowers, thousands of people from all walks of life yesterday approached the Central Shaheed Minar in the capital to pay tributes to the fallen heroes of the Language Movement, observing International Mother Language Day.Like in every year Amar Ekushey once again reminded the Bangalee nation of the supreme sacrifice made by the language martyrs in the historic struggle for upholding the dignity of the nation's mother tongue Bangla, reasserting the spirit of not bowing down before any repression.Many went to the Shaheed Minar with only a single rose or a tuberose in ...
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