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Thursday, 15 May 2008 |
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Chief adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed is due to inaugurate paddy harvesting and address a farmers' rally in Dinajpur Thursday, said the deputy commissioner for the district, reports bdnews24.com.
The chief adviser will be accompanied by United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation's country representative Adrianus Spijkers and Asian Development Bank resident representative Hua Du. |
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Thursday, 15 May 2008 |
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Hiding wealth info Bdnews24.com A special court Wednesday sentenced former state minister for law barrister Shahjahan Omar to 13-year rigorous imprisonment on charges of accumulating wealth illegally and suppressing information on assets.
Judge Khandaker Kamal Uzzaman of the Special Judge's Court-9 also fined him Tk 10 lakh and he will serve another year in jail if he fails to pay the fine. |
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Thursday, 15 May 2008 |
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Ashuganj train accident Bdnews24.com Rail links between Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet remained suspended for 11 hours from early Wednesday after a train accident at Ashuganj station killed eight people and injured 30 others.
Authorities suspended the Ashuganj rail stationmaster, a train driver and some other employees, and formed a committee to investigate the incident. |
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Thursday, 15 May 2008 |
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Niko case A Dhaka court Wednesday ordered former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and eight others accused in the Niko scam case to appear in court on May 21, reports bdnews24.com
Metropolitan special judge Md Azizul Haque gave the order Wednesday. |
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Thursday, 15 May 2008 |
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Fraud case A Dhaka court Wednesday sentenced "The Daily Janakantha" editor Atiqullah Khan Masud to seven years' rigorous imprisonment for his involvement in another fraud case, reports bdnews24.com.
Judge Amar Kumar Roy of the Special Judge's Court-2 set up on the Jatiya Sangsad premises handed down the verdict. |
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Thursday, 15 May 2008 |
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Bdnews24.com A special court Wednesday sentenced Awami League leader Mokbul Hossain's son Masudur Rahman to 13 years in jail for amassing wealth illegally and concealing information about assets.
Judge Md Sirajul Islam fined him Tk 10 lakh and ordered one more year in jail in case of failure to pay the sum. |
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Thursday, 15 May 2008 |
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Agency The weather office Wednesday kept up local cautionary signal 3 for Cox's Bazar, Chittagong and Mongla ports as a well-marked low was brewing over the east-central Bay and adjoining area.
The low was likely to intensify, the Meteorological Department said in a special weather bulletin. |
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Wednesday, 14 May 2008 |
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Bdnews24.com Former prime minister Khaleda Zia and all other accused in the Niko scam case are facing an order to appear in court on May 20. Metropolitan special judge Md Azizul Haque passed the order. The court Tuesday ordered former BAPEX general manager Mir Moinul Haque and former BAPEX secretary Md Safiur Rahman, to jail after they turned themselves in to court and appealed for bail. |
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Wednesday, 14 May 2008 |
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Bdnews24.com As announced by the Chief Adviser Monday, the government will Tuesday start sending out letters inviting the political parties to the dialogue starting May 22, said the education and commerce adviser Hossain Zillur Rahman Tuesday. "We are advancing step by step towards holding the dialogue. To make the proposed dialogue successful, the Chief Adviser addressed the nation yesterday (Monday). |
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Wednesday, 14 May 2008 |
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Bangladesh Navy has test-fired a C-802 missile in the deep Bay of Bengal, the Inter-Service Public Relations Directorate said in a statement Monday, reports bdnews24.com. This marks the upgrading of Bangladesh's missile system with a Chinese technical team. |
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Wednesday, 14 May 2008 |
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Bdnews24.com Supreme Court lawyers split into opposing camps Tuesday over the planned boycott of the Appellate Division. A group of lawyers led by Khandaker Mahbub Hossain, former vice chairman of Bangladesh Bar Council, have taken an opposing line against the Supreme Court Bar Association's call to boycott the apex court for two hours Thursday. |
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Wednesday, 14 May 2008 |
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The UK has welcomed chief adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed's address to the nation and termed it "very positive",reports bdnews24.com.
"The UK very much welcomed this speech (by the chief adviser)," outgoing British high commissioner Anwar Choudhury told reporters Tuesday after inaugurating an electronic projector in Shahbagh. |
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Wednesday, 14 May 2008 |
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Agency Deep convective clouds over northeast Bay likely to generate squally winds prompted the weather office to advise the maritime ports to hoist local cautionary signal three, a weather bulletin issued Tuesday said.
"Due to deep convective clouds over the North Andaman Sea and northeast Bay, squally weather may affect the maritime ports," the bulletin said.
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Wednesday, 14 May 2008 |
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Bdnews24.com Editors, other senior journalists and journalist union leaders have demanded that the government ensure press freedom by withdrawing the state of emergency without delay.
The demand came from a joint meeting held at the National Press Club Tuesday, preceded by Monday's—both chaired by senior journalist Ataus Samad. |
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Wednesday, 14 May 2008 |
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Adviser Ghulam Quader Tuesday shrugged off the danger of the government making a travesty of the year-end election, as many political leaders fear, reports bdnews24.com.
Addressing doubt expressed by political parties after the chief adviser's speech Monday over the possibilities of holding the polls without lifting emergency rule completely, Quader emphasised that the "election would be held properly, leaving no space for any question to arise". |
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Wednesday, 14 May 2008 |
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Cases against Obaidul Kader The Supreme Court Monday turned down an Anticorruption Commission plea to halt a High Court stay on three graft cases against former state minister Obaidul Kader, reports bdnews24.com.
Appellate Division chamber judge Md Abdul Matin however forwarded the ACC application to the full bench for a hearing on May 18. |
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Wednesday, 14 May 2008 |
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Bdnews24.com, New Delhi—The Indian Border Security Force has come out openly for the first time to say that coordination with the BDR to manage the Indo-Bangladesh border is better than ever before.
But the BSF alleges that there is no doubt that insurgents from Northeast India are carrying out their activities primarily from Bangladesh soil. |
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Wednesday, 14 May 2008 |
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Bdnews24.com The number of casualties reached 42 and some 20 passengers remained missing, a day after a launch capsized in the river Ghorautra in Nikli Upazila under Kishoreganj district, police said Tuesday.
Four dead bodies recovered Monday were identified as Renu Mia, 45, Dhiresh Chandra Das, 30, Sakhina, 55 and two and a half year old Chandra Das.
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Wednesday, 14 May 2008 |
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Bdnews24.com The High Court Tuesday issued a contempt of court rule against textiles and jute secretary Abdur Rashid Sarker for neglecting a 1997 verdict.
Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation chairman Md Ataharul Islam, Board of Investment director Shamsul Alam Talukder and Privatisation Commission chairman Md Abu Solaiman Chowdhury are facing the same charges. |
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Tuesday, 13 May 2008 |
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The High Court Monday issued a rule nisi on a writ petition filed by Awami League president Sheikh Hasina challenging the proceedings of the barge-mounted power plant case against her as the trial was not completed in time, reports bdnews24.com. The HC asked the government, the Anticorruption Commission and the Special Judge's Court-1 for Dhaka to explain the delay in trial in eight days. |
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