Wednesday, February 14th, 2007Bangladesh Railway authorities with the assistance of the joint forces yesterday recovered around eight acres of land allegedly grabbed by former BNP lawmaker Mirza Abbas and his family for about 35 years at Shahjahanpur in the city.According to railway engineer Md Nasir Uddin, previous attempts to recover the land were failed due to pressures from higher authorities.A Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) eviction team recovered half an acre of encroached land and brought down some billboards at Uttara Sector-6.The team also partially demolished some houses built in violation of the Rajuk rules at Uttara Sector-3.The Rajuk would conduct a ...
(read more) Tuesday, February 13th, 2007Joint forces and mobile courts yesterday seized huge quantities of fake engine oil from four factories all over the country. In the capital, a mobile court raided Khokoner Mobil Ghar in Usabarir Basti in Postagola and seized more than 90 drums of fake engine oil made of burnt and contaminated lubricants along with unusable oils collected from different workshops.The court led by magistrate Rokon-ud-Dowla issued warrants against owner of the factory Isaq Mia Khokon and owner of the slum Abdul Wahab for allowing such a business.The court then raided another engine oil factory in Samad Mobil Ghar at Razabari ...
(read more) Monday, February 12th, 2007The joint forces yesterday raided four warehouses at Silimpur village in Shahjahanpur thana and recovered over 52,000 sacks of date expired lentils worth around Tk 14 crore along with relief materials from Prime Minister's Relief Fund including several thousand pieces of blankets, sweaters and saris. The estimated value of a total of 52,028 sacks of date expired lentils was Tk 14 crore. The relief materials, with Prime Minister's Relief Fund tags on them, included 4,475 pieces of blankets, 1,900 pieces of saris and 890 pieces of sweaters.Police arrested from the scene Mohammad Shokrana, owner of the four warehouses, and ...
(read more) Monday, February 12th, 2007A Mymensingh court yesterday placed former state minister for energy AKM Mosharraf Hossain under a month's detention while another court in Netrakona sent LDP presidium member and former lawmaker MA Karim Abbasi to the district jail. The joint forces picked up Mosharraf from his Mymensingh residence on February 8, while Abbasi was arrested at his house in Durgapur upazila under Netrakona on Saturday night on charges of corruption and nepotism.Meanwhile, the army-led joint forces, police and Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested 1,718 people on various charges in 24 hours in the countrywide drive until 6:00am yesterday. They also seized 18 ...
(read more) Monday, February 12th, 2007Detained former BNP lawmaker and businessman Mosaddak Ali Falu will be shown arrested today in a case filed against him for embezzling government property.The army-led joint forces seized government relief materials from a factory site in Savar owned by Falu on February 9.Following the seizure, Ashulia police filed the case against Falu and several other officials and employees of the factory but their names were not mentioned.Sub-Inspector Mohammad Ismail Hossain of Ashulia Police Station, who is also the investigation officer of the case, told The Daily Star yesterday that he would submit a petition before the First Class Magistrate's Court, ...
(read more) Sunday, February 11th, 2007The army-led joint forces seized government relief materials from a business establishment of former BNP lawmaker and businessman Mosaddak Ali Falu in Savar yesterday.The forces demolished five houses constructed with corrugated iron (CI) sheets, which are actually government relief materials, on the factory premises.The 40 by 50 feet houses were built for accommodation of the workers of Dhaka Shanghai Ceramics Factory at Gohailbari in Savar.Seven hundred pieces of CI sheets worth around Tk 4 lakh bear inscriptions, 'Relief materials of Relief and Rehabilitation Department: Not for sale'.Police filed a case with Ashulia police station accusing already detained Mosaddak Ali Falu ...
(read more) Saturday, February 10th, 2007The United States wants to see election in Bangladesh as soon as possible in an appropriate way according to the constitution and rule of law, a State Department spokesman said in Washington."Our position on Bangladesh and on its elections I think is well known to you and certainly hasn't changed. We do want to see elections move forward as soon as possible and in an appropriate way according to the constitution and according to the rule of law," Deputy Spokesman Tom Casey told a press briefing Thursday.He said Washington also wants "to make sure that there is accountability in government, ...
(read more) Wednesday, February 7th, 2007Law Adviser Mainul Hosein yesterday said the politicians who patronised militants will also be arrested as part of the caretaker government's drive to restore law and order in the country."There were political hands in the rise of militancy in the country," Mainul told reporters at his office, adding that the militants dared to exercise their strength because of party politics of the country.The government is mulling an anti-militant act while it is probing the nature of the politicians' involvement in the rise of militancy, he said.Those who patronised the rise of militants in the country are on the list of ...
(read more) Tuesday, February 6th, 2007Fifteen high-ranking leaders of BNP and Awami League (AL) were sent to detention along with four others yesterday on charges of anti-state activities, sabotage and corruption.Former state minister Ruhul Quddus Talukder Dulu, and former BNP lawmakers Mosaddak Ali Falu and Abdul Wadood Bhuiyan, who had been arrested along with other high profile politicians of both the major parties during the joint forces' drive early Sunday, however were not produced before the court.The court turned down the bail petitions of all the 19 arrestees and ordered their detention after security personnel had produced them before the court yesterday afternoon with detention ...
(read more) Tuesday, February 6th, 2007The joint forces in separate drives all over the country yesterday seized over 20,000 sacks of spoilt wheat and date expired sugar and huge quantities of fake products including over 3,400 sacks of fertiliser. The forces raided and sealed off a warehouse in Gazipur owned by Partex Group after they recovered 5,000 sacks of date expired sugar to be used in popular soft drink RC Cola.Former BNP lawmaker MA Hashem is the chairman of Partex Group.Our Gazipur correspondent reports, the joint forces found that the sugar stored in the warehouse of RC Cola factory has been expired in ...
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