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Friday, 22 August 2008 |
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Aug 21 attacks Staff Correspondent The Awami League Thursday asked the caretaker government to launch a neutral enquiry into the grenade attack on a party rally on August 21, 2004. Acting president Zillur Rahman said the BNP-led four-party coalition did not try the real perpetrators since, he alleged, they had been involved with the attack. |
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Friday, 22 August 2008 |
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Agency The Anticorruption Commission on Thursday approved chargesheets against 16 people in six cases, most filed for concealing information and amassing illegal wealth, an official said. Former commerce adviser Barkatullah Bulu and former ambassador to Abu Dhabi, Md Nazim Ullah Chowdhury, are among the people on the chargesheets, ACC director general colonel Hanif Iqbal told reporters at his office. |
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Thursday, 21 August 2008 |
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Abul Hossain killing A Dhaka court Tuesday handed down the death penalty to two men for the brutal murder of Liberation War commander Abul Hossain, while six others received life terms for their involvement, reports bdnews24.com. A crowded courtroom heard Judge Md Masdar Hossain, of Dhaka No 1 Speedy Trial Tribunal, award death sentences to Ayub Ali Munshi and Kamrul Matubbar, though the latter remains on the run. |
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Thursday, 21 August 2008 |
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Staff Correspondent The government is eager to release Khaleda Zia for the sake of "a meaningful election", says adviser Hossain Zillur Rahman. Asked by reporters why the government was so keen when the former prime minister was |
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Thursday, 21 August 2008 |
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A Dhaka court Wednesday framed charges in the MiG-29 corruption case against former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and other accused, reports agency. If the charges are proved in the court, Hasina would face a maximum penalty of life term and a minimum of 10 years in jail. |
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Thursday, 21 August 2008 |
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3 years jail and a fine for defrauding consumers Staff Correspondent The interim cabinet on Wednesday approved the Consumer Rights Protection Ordinance 2008, which prescribes 3 years' imprisonment and a fine to businessmen proved guilty of cheating consumers, a government spokesman said. The CA's press secretary Syed Fahim Munaim told reporters, after the cabinet meeting at the Chief Adviser's Office, that charging more than the recommended retail price would be considered as a punishable act. |
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Thursday, 21 August 2008 |
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Says Zillur Staff Correspondent Acting Awami League president Zillur Rahman Wednesday said his party remained pessimistic over a successful outcome to the August 21 grenade attack case, pointing to a general lack of commitment from the state to secure any convictions. "People in power have treated the case rather indifferently since it opened four years ago," Zillur told reporters following a meeting with the Bangladesh Rural Physicians' Welfare Society at his Gulshan home. |
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Thursday, 21 August 2008 |
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Staff Reporter A Sri Lankan ship loaded with Indian rice sank off Chittagong port Wednesday, after colliding with another foreign ship, port officials said. The incident occurred shortly after 1pm when an unloaded Panama ship, in the outer anchorage area, collided with the Sri Lankan ship arriving from India's Kakinada port with 3,600 tonnes of rice, the port radio control room said. |
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Thursday, 21 August 2008 |
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Graft case Staff Correspondent Dhaka courts on Wednesday denied bail to former prime minister Khaleda Zia and her son Tarique Rahman in two separate cases filed by the Anticorruption Commission. Additional chief metropolitan magistrate for Dhaka, Md Golam Rabbani rejected Khaleda's bail plea in a case involving alleged corruption in the running of the Barapukuria coalmine. |
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Thursday, 21 August 2008 |
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Staff Correspondent Open Market Sales of rice resumed Wednesday, with a target of serving 14 lakh people a day. Mollah Waheduzzaman, secretary to the ministry of food and disaster management inaugurated the OMS programme at Palashi market. |
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Thursday, 21 August 2008 |
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Bdnews24.com Former home minister Mohammad Nasim, recently released on bail, flew out of Dhaka Tuesday night to seek medical treatment in Singapore. "Mohammad Nasim left on a Singapore Airlines flight at 11.55pm," said Zia International Airport immigration duty officer-in-charge Asma Siddiqua Milli. |
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Thursday, 21 August 2008 |
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Awami League wants to hold talks with the caretaker government and the Election Commission in the first week of September, a party leader said Wednesday, reports agency. AL sent two separate letters to the chief adviser and the chief election commissioner on Tuesday seeking a date and time for a fresh round of dialogue on issues related to timing of parliamentary and upazila polls. |
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Thursday, 21 August 2008 |
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Bdnews24.com Dhaka University teachers backed by BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami of the White Panel swept the dean elections Tuesday, running away with eight of 10 posts up for grabs. A notable casualty was the incumbent dean of the biological sciences faculty, microbiology professor Dr Anwar Hossain of the Blue-Pink alliance supported by the Awami League and its Left allies. |
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Thursday, 21 August 2008 |
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Fresh talks Staff Correspondent The Election Commission has replied to Awami League's letter for fresh talks, asking the party to clarify what issues it wants to address, the chief election commissioner said. Awami League sent letters to the chief adviser and the EC Tuesday seeking a date and time for another round of dialogue on issues related to timing of parliamentary and upazila polls. |
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Thursday, 21 August 2008 |
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Staff Correspondent BNP leader and former parliamentary whip Syed Ashraf Hossain was released on bail Wednesday night from Dhaka Central Jail, an official said. Jailer Faruque Ahmed told bdnews24.com that "Ashraf Hossain was released in line with a High Court order." |
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Thursday, 21 August 2008 |
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Staff Correspondent A Dhaka court Wednesday sentenced M Faisal Morshed, son of former foreign minister M Morshed Khan, to a total of 10 years in prison on charges of amassing wealth beyond known sources of income. Judge AKM Arifur Rahman, of Special Court-10 set up in the Sangsad Bhaban premises, also fined Faisal Tk 10 lakh or another year's jail term in case of failure to pay. |
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Wednesday, 20 August 2008 |
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Zillur tells reporters Staff Reporter Commerce and education adviser Hossain Zillur Rahman Tuesday visited the site of Monday |
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Wednesday, 20 August 2008 |
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Observe Bangladesh politicians Desk Report Politicians in Bangladesh saw the resignation on Monday of Pakistan's president Pervez Musharraf as a victory of the people over 'autocracy' and expressed the hope that democracy will now be strengthened in the country. BNP joint secretary general Goyeshwar Chandra Roy said, "No powerful autocrat can cling to power against the will of the people. The rise of the democratic values of the people of Pakistan proves that." |
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Wednesday, 20 August 2008 |
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Staff Correspondent Foreign adviser Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury said Monday that Bangladesh was thinking of ratifying the international convention on protection of migrant worker rights. Speaking as chief guest at a regional workshop, being held in Dhaka, Iftekhar said he hoped that SAARC would provide South Asia, one of the largest labour- exporting regions in the world, a common platform to protect the rights of South Asian migrant workers. |
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Wednesday, 20 August 2008 |
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Staff Correspondent Senior BNP joint secretary general Tarique Rahman must be sent abroad for treatment, or he might be rendered permanently disabled, a specialist said Tuesday. Surgeon and joint replacement specialist Kazi Mazharul Islam Dolon, of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital, told reporters: "Tarique is partially disabled already, as he wasn't given proper treatment in time." |
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