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Sunday, 24 August 2008 |
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Staff Correspondent The Awami League has demanded parliamentary elections by the third week of October and consultations with political parties on the new electoral laws. "Not on December 22, hold the elections in the second or third week of October and hand over power to an elected government," presidium member Amir Hossain Amu said at a discussion meeting at the party headquarters on Friday. |
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Sunday, 24 August 2008 |
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Staff Correspondent The BNP has said the new electoral laws, including mandatory registration of political parties and a ban on their powerful student and labour front organisations, are designed to keep political parties on a tight rein. The laws enforced on Thursday are aimed to reduce political parties to mere branches of the Election Commission, it said. |
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Sunday, 24 August 2008 |
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Staff Correspondent Bangladesh and Indian border guards have ironed out ways to curb border shootings between their forces, a senior BDR officer said on Friday. "We have found effective ways to stop shootings on the border," said Col Md Anisuzzaman, director at BDR headquarters (Operations), at the end of the second day of a border conference between Bangladesh Rifles and India's Border Security Force (BSF). |
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Sunday, 24 August 2008 |
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The teachers, students and staff of Dhaka University will sport black badges on Saturday as a mark of protest in line with a decision of the Dhaka University Teachers' Association (DUTA) to observe August 23 as 'Black Day'', reports bdnews24.com The gesture highlights the mass arrests of students and teachers of the premier university in the aftermath of a campus unrest in the second half of August 2007, the DUTA said in a press statement on Friday. |
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Sunday, 24 August 2008 |
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Udichi meet told The societal impediments resisting cultural development in Bangladesh have assumed militant dimensions, educationist professor Serajul Islam Chowdhury has said, reports bdnews24.com. "We have come to realise today how a set of moderate societal impediments can be honed to pose militant threats as regards expansion of positive cultural trends," he said at the inaugural of Udichi's two-day seventh metropolitan conference on Friday. |
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Sunday, 24 August 2008 |
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Staff Correspondent Playwright, actor and filmmaker Abdullah Al Mamun was buried at 3:30pm on Friday at Banani graveyard. He was laid to rest in the grave of his wife Farida Mamun who died in 1984. His children, relatives, friends and colleagues were present during the burial. |
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Sunday, 24 August 2008 |
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Pabna 'crossfire' Our Correspondent RAB early Friday killed an alleged militant leader in a 'shootout' at Ataikula in Pabna, an official said. Jahurul Islam Mithhu, 32, son of Abdur Razzak of Swarogram under Ataikula Police Station, is the third militant chieftain to be liquidated in the last couple of months in the area gradually heating up with the militants flexing muscles afresh.
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Saturday, 23 August 2008 |
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Power plant blast Our Correspondent An explosion on Friday night at Ashuganj thermal power plant knocked off power supplies to Brahmanbaria, an official said. "Seven units have become unable to generate power after a tube of the steam turbine unit exploded around 8pm," said Abdul Khaleque, managing director of the power plant. |
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Saturday, 23 August 2008 |
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The government has appointed Mejbah Ul Alam, joint secretary at the civil aviation and tourism ministry, Barisal divisional commissioner and transferred two deputy commissioners, reports bdnews24.com Alam's predecessor Harun Chowdhury has been posted at the establishment ministry, according to government orders issued on Friday. |
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Friday, 22 August 2008 |
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Staff Correspondent The government has appointed new deputy commissioners (DCs) to 34 districts and transferred four others in a reshuffle in the local administration ahead of the national polls. The establishment ministry said in a statement it issued orders on the grassroots administrative overhaul on Thursday. |
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Friday, 22 August 2008 |
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The government has published the Representation of the People Order (Amendment) Ordinance 2008 in a gazette, making registration of political parties compulsory and banning their front organizations, reports bdnews24.com. Election Commission secretary Muhammad Humayun Kabir said he received a copy of the gazette on Thursday. |
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Friday, 22 August 2008 |
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Staff Reporter Chittagong port authorities on Thursday cautioned ships in the port's outer anchorage zone to maintain radio links to prevent further tragedies after the sinking of Sri Lankan flag carrier 'Badula Valley' on Wednesday. Zahur Ahmed, port radio control officer, told bdnews24.com that ship movement in the outer anchorage has been going on as normal after a 'marking buoy' was placed at the spot of the accident. |
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Friday, 22 August 2008 |
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Firms asked to pay Staff Correspondent Bangladeshi workers in Kuwait demonstrating over poor and irregular pay have returned to work after authorities asked the errant companies to clear the arrears, the foreign secretary said on Thursday. "The workers have called off their strikes and all of them have returned to work," Md Touhid Hossain told bdnews24.com Thursday. |
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Friday, 22 August 2008 |
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Graft Case Staff Correspondent The High Court on Thursday granted bail to former law minister Moudud Ahmed, former health minister Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, former state minister for energy AKM Mosharraf Hossain and former BNP lawmaker Shahiduddin Chowdhury Annie in separate cases. The same High Court bench, of Justice Sharif Uddin Chaklader and Justice Md Imdadul Haque Azad, awarded bail in all four cases. |
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Friday, 22 August 2008 |
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Perpretrators easily lure jobless people Staff Correspondent Foreign adviser Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury on Thursday said that human trafficking had become an alarming migration issue, with the perpetrators easily luring jobless people into being bought and sold. "In a country where unemployment is pervasive and opportunities are limited, illegal human traffickers do not have to try too hard to mislead the millions of job seekers," the foreign adviser said. |
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Friday, 22 August 2008 |
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The bail orders of 10 prominent figures were upheld by the Supreme Court Thursday, reports bdnews24.com. A regular bench of the court's Appellate Division, comprising five judges led by chief justice MM Ruhul Amin, upheld High Court bails granted in separate cases to former BNP secretary general Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan, former minister M Shamsul Islam, former minister engineer Mosharraf Hossain, former adviser for energy Mahmudur Rahman, former lawmaker MH Selim and industrialist MA Hashem. |
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Friday, 22 August 2008 |
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UZ polls Says Adviser Staff Correspondent Local government adviser Anwarul Iqbal Thursday said the government would not try to make the political parties to take part in the upazila elections. The adviser made the remarks when reporters asked him to comment on Awami League's proposal to hold discussion with the government on three issues including a planned boycott of the upazila polls. |
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Friday, 22 August 2008 |
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Submitting memo to CA Desk Report The police Thursday stopped the BNP-led four-party alliance submitting a memorandum to the chief adviser at his office in the capital. Contingents of police hemmed in the alliance leaders and workers gathered on the NAM flats premises from morning to 1:00pm by putting up barricades all around. |
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Friday, 22 August 2008 |
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Staff Correspondent A Dhaka court on Thursday sentenced Tariqur Rahman Prince, son-in-law of former caretaker government adviser Justice Fazlul Haque, to three years in prison for not submitting a wealth statement to the Anticorruption Commission. Justice Khandakar Kamaluddin of Special Judge's Court-9 also fined the fugitive Tk 5 lakh or another three months behind bars on failure to pay. |
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Friday, 22 August 2008 |
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Desk Report The Awami League is observing the fourth anniversary of the 2004 grenade attack on a party rally in a limited way this year, under the ongoing state of emergency. A number of organisations offered flower tributes in the morning hours at a temporary memorial erected in front of the party's head office on Bangabandhu Avenue. |
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