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Friday, 15 August 2008 |
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Ill-gotten wealth Staff Correspondent Former ministers Khandker Mosharraf Hossain, Altaf Hossain Chowdhury, Chittagong mayor ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury and AL leader Obaidul Quader secured bail from the High Court on Thursday. The HC bench of justices Sharifuddin Chaklader and Md Imdadul Haque Azad granted bail to Mosharraf Hossain for two months in a land purchase case and Altaf Hossain Chowdhury for the same period in a case filed for amassing illegal wealth. |
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Friday, 15 August 2008 |
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Jobs to be created in two phases, food-disaster hit areas to get priority Staff Correspondent The government has finalised a Tk 2000-crore 100-day job generation scheme set to begin by mid-September throughout Bangladesh, says a senior government official. "The guideline has been formulated today (Thursday). Two million jobs will be created in two phases in all 64 districts," food and disaster management secretary Molla Waheeduzzaman told bdnews24.com. |
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Friday, 15 August 2008 |
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Says Matin Desk Report The process of releasing both BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and elder son Tarique Rahman is progressing, home adviser MA Matin said Thursday. "The Khaleda Zia release process is on. The file will come to the home ministry after its journey through the law ministry is completed." |
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Friday, 15 August 2008 |
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Foreign adviser Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury Thursday said that overseas employment during the current fiscal would cross nine lakh, reports bdnews24.com. He urged the recruiting agents to procure decent work-offers instead of unskilled odd- jobs to stop exploitation of Bangladeshi workers abroad. |
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Friday, 15 August 2008 |
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Reinstatement of Aug 15 Desk Report Senior Awami League leaders paid homage Thursday at the mausoleum of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Tungipara, Gopalganj, amid tight security, ahead of the |
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Friday, 15 August 2008 |
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Says Adviser Staff Correspondent The government will permit trade union activities to resume on a limited scale in a week's time, labour adviser Anwarul Iqbal said Thursday. Talking to reporters at the labour ministry, the adviser said: "After reintroduction of trade union activities, permission to hold polls will also be given in good time." |
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Friday, 15 August 2008 |
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Desk Report The caretaker government, before leaving office, will take steps so that all utility bills can be paid through electronic transactions, special assistant to the chief adviser M Tamim said Thursday. "Before we go in December, we will make arrangements for people to pay all four utility bills (electricity, gas, water and telephone) through electronic billing and payment systems," he said, at the launch of a new payment service by Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company and Grameenphone. |
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Friday, 15 August 2008 |
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Desk Report Ailing Awami League leader Mohammad Nasim, now serving a 13-year jail term, will be released Friday, officials said. "We have received the papers. But he could not be released on Thursday as the papers reached us after the time," Faruque Ahmed, a Dhaka Central Jail official, told bdnews24.com Thursday evening. |
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Friday, 15 August 2008 |
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Dhaka, Aug 14 (bdnews24.com) – There would be no food crisis in Ramadan since the government has replenished food stocks with imports, chief adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed was quoted as saying on Thursday. The interim government head briefed president Iajuddin Ahmed at a meeting at Bangabhaban, about the steps his administration has taken, president's press secretary Abdul Awal Hawlader told reporters. |
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Friday, 15 August 2008 |
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Dhaka, Aug 14 (bdnews24.com) – The BNP and it allies on Thursday called countrywide protests for Aug 27 to press for the release of party chief Khaleda Zia and overseas treatment of her son Tarique Rahman, a senior BNP leader said. After a meeting of the four-party alliance in NAM flat, BNP secretary general Khandaker Delwar Hossain told reporters that a human chain would be formed across the country on the day. |
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Thursday, 14 August 2008 |
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Efforts to release Khaleda soon, emergency to be relaxed for upazila polls, corruption strongly handled, CA informs Staff Reporter Chief adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed chaired a meeting of the interim cabinet at the |
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Thursday, 14 August 2008 |
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Ill-gotten wealth, extortion case Staff Correspondent The High Court on Wednesday bailed Chittagong mayor ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury, HRC Group chairman Sayeed Hossain Chowdhury and former BNP lawmaker Monjurul Ahsan Munshi in three separate cases. However, the Appellate Division chamber judge stayed the bail of Pro-Awami League Bangladesh Jubo League general secretary Mirza Azam for one month. |
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Thursday, 14 August 2008 |
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Staff Correspondent Chairman of the Truth and Accountability Commission, Justice Habibur Rahman, said Wednesday that 17 to 18 people—including politicians, bureaucrats and businessmen—had so far voluntarily applied to the commission seeking clemency. In a weekly press briefing at the commission's office, Justice Habibur said that the truth commission is working with a view to maintaining social and economic stability. |
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Thursday, 14 August 2008 |
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Staff Correspondent India has already shipped more than four of the five lakh tonnes of rice promised to Bangladesh, the foreign secretary said Wednesday. "More than four lakh tonnes of rice has already been shipped to us," Md Touhid Hossain told bdnews24.com. |
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Thursday, 14 August 2008 |
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Agency The government has at last posted 476 associate professors of the civil service education cadre, three months after their promotion, an education ministry circular said Wednesday. The associate professors in question have been asked to join their new college posts by Aug 21, the ministry said. |
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Thursday, 14 August 2008 |
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Verdict on Aug21 Staff Correspondent A Dhaka court is set to deliver verdict on August 21 in a case against Tariqur Rahman Prince, son-in-law of Justice Fazlul Huq, that charges him with not submitting his wealth statement to the Anticorruption Commission. Judge Khondoker Kamal Uzzaman of the Special Judge's Court-9 has fixed the date on Wednesday. |
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Thursday, 14 August 2008 |
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Chittagong, Aug 13 (bdnews24.com) – Chief adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed said Wednesday that his administration was initiating efforts to release former prime minister Khaleda Zia as early as possible. "The procedure to release detained BNP chairperson through a normal process is going on. The government is considering the process as early as possible," Fakhruddin told reporters after a cabinet meeting, held at the Circuit House Auditorium in Chittagong. |
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Thursday, 14 August 2008 |
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Dhaka, August 13 (bdnews24.com)— Grameen Bank founder Dr Muhammad Yunus dreams of setting up a sprawling complex with a medical college, a number of specialised and general hospitals and a nurses' training centre. "We had started establishing hospitals in villages to provide essential health services to the rural poor, but of the 38 such centres run with insurance money, 20 don't have doctors at the moment," the Nobel laureate said Wednesday at a ceremony to mark the foundation laying of the 200-bed Kidney Foundation Hospital and Research Institute. |
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Thursday, 14 August 2008 |
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Faridpur, August 13 (bdnews24.com) – Four people died and 23 were injured on Wednesday on the Bhanga-Maoa highway of Bhanga Upazila in Faridpur when a passenger bus skidded into nearby ditch, police said. Officer in charge (OC) of Bhanga Upazila Police Station Enamul Haque said the incident took place around 7am in the Hashemdia area. The bus was going to Moralganj, Bagerhat from Chittagong. |
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Thursday, 14 August 2008 |
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Bbaria, Aug 13 (bdnews24.com) – Ashuganj Power Station Company Limited resumed production at all its units Wednesday, after more than two years of interruptions, aiming to reduce the need for load shedding, an official said. Ashuganj is the second largest power station in Bangladesh, capable of producing 724MW power with all eight units combined, amounting to 15 percent of the country's total power supply. |
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