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Tuesday, 12 August 2008 |
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Staff Correspondent The armed forces will not be deployed at polling centres during the upazila polls, an election commissioner clarified Monday. M Sakhawat Hussain made the remarks following the Election Commission's recent statement on army deployment for the upcoming polls. |
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Tuesday, 12 August 2008 |
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Bdnews24.com The British High Commissioner in Dhaka, Stephen Evans, says he believes the state of emergency will gradually be lifted by the time the Jatiya Sangsad polls are due. The British envoy spoke to reporters Monday, emerging from a meeting with home adviser M A Matin at his secretariat office. |
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Tuesday, 12 August 2008 |
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The government is set to form a medical board for BNP joint secretary general Tarique Rahman, currently undergoing treatment at the prison ward of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital, a government official said, reports bdnews24.com. "A medical board will be formed today. The director general of the health directorate will be directed to make necessary arrangements," health secretary AKM Jafar Ullah Khan told bdnews24.com. |
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Tuesday, 12 August 2008 |
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Poll observers under emergency Staff Correspondent French ambassador to Bangladesh Charley Causeret has contradicted a recent statement by Euro MP Nirj Deva on whether the EU would send election observers to Bangladesh if polls were held under emergency. Nirj Deva, during his visit to Bangladesh last week, said that the European Union does not send observers to elections held under a state of emergency. |
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Tuesday, 12 August 2008 |
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Says Hafiz Staff Correspondent BNP reformist leader Hafizuddin Ahmed, echoing fellow reformist Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan, stated on Monday that the party made a mistake in not endorsing candidates for the Aug 4 city and municipal elections. "BNP has made a political error by not backing candidates in the local polls. It was not a right decision by the party," Hafizuddintold reporters at his Banani residence. |
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Tuesday, 12 August 2008 |
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Bdnews24.com The High Court on Monday quashed a case relating to a 2001 bomb blast in front of the Narayanganj Awami League office, in which 20 people died, asking police to reinvestigate. Justices Syed Mohammad Dastagir Hossain and Quamrul Islam Siddiqui made the ruling after hearing on a petition by Nasim Osman, brother of ex-AL MP Shamim Osman. |
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Tuesday, 12 August 2008 |
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Bangladesh will accept a US proposal to assist in securing 539 kilometres of the national border, which remain unguarded, by linking remote border outposts, a home ministry official said, reports bdnews24.com The home adviser MA Matin told reporters that a home ministry meeting Monday had discussed the US proposal for improvement of infrastructure and security systems as well as the efficiency of Bangladesh Rifles. |
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Monday, 11 August 2008 |
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Warns Delwar Staff Correspondent The BNP-led four-party alliance on Sunday vowed to wage a tough movement in case BNP chief Khaleda Zia was not released within 72 hours. "If Khaleda Zia is not released within 72 hours and (her son) Tarique Rahman is not sent abroad for medical treatment, the alliance will give a tough programme. |
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Monday, 11 August 2008 |
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Upazila polls Staff Correspondent The Election Commission has formulated rules fixing candidates' electoral and personal expenditure for the upcoming upazila parishad, election commissioner M Sakhawat Hossain said Sunday. Sakhawat told bdnews24.com Sunday: "A proposal fixing the election expenses for upazila election candidates at between Tk 5 lakh to Tk 10 lakh has been included in the rules." |
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Monday, 11 August 2008 |
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Bdnews24.com A four-day long training course 'Durjog Durnibar-2008' to prepare for disaster operations, such as post-earthquake disaster management and humanitarian assistance, began Sunday, the Inter Service Public Relations Directorate said. The five-day joint-exercise would simulate disaster relief operations necessary following an earthquake. |
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Monday, 11 August 2008 |
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EPR case Desk Report The High Court on Sunday granted bail to former Awami League minister Mosharraf Hossain in an EPR breach case. A HC bench of justices Khademul Islam Chowdhury and Mashuk Hossain Ahmed also stayed the proceedings of the case and also requested law enforcement agencies not to rearrest him on release or harass him without lawful reason. |
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Monday, 11 August 2008 |
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Says Quader Staff correspondent Another adviser has said Khaleda Zia's release is "at final stages" and that the government will not impose any conditions. Speaking to reporters Sunday, communications adviser Ghulam Quader however did not give a specific date. |
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Monday, 11 August 2008 |
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AL tells govt Staff Correspondent The Awami League on Sunday asked the government not to decide on the political future of mayors-elect without sitting with his party that now has people's mandate. "People are now by the side of Awami League. The days of making unilateral decisions are over. In future all decisions have to be taken in consultation with Awami League," acting general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam said. |
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Monday, 11 August 2008 |
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Desk Report A Dhaka court further pushed back to Aug 31 the hearing on the case involving the Aug 21 grenade attack on an Awami League rally. Senior sessions judge Md Azizul Haque announced the new date on Sunday morning as the police reports on four of the eight accused persons, all fugitives, were not submitted.. |
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Monday, 11 August 2008 |
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Staff Correspondent A BNP leader on Sunday said the government has bias against the release of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and her elder son Tarique Rahman. "The government advisers are saying that her release is 'at final stages'. But the party is not being informed about the matter," BNP office secretary Rizvi Ahmed told reporters at the house of BNP secretary general Khandaker Delwar Hossain. |
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Monday, 11 August 2008 |
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Desk Report The Communist Party of Bangladesh has reelected Manjurul Ahsan Khan and Mujahidul Islam Selim as president and general secretary. The new central committee was formed at the end of the party's three-day 9th Congress. |
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Monday, 11 August 2008 |
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Staff Correspondent Detained former prime minister Khaleda Zia has asked the Election Commission about the bars on running in general elections on those not registered as voters, a senior prisons official said on Sunday. Deputy inspector general of prisons major Shamsul Haider Siddiqui said he had obtained necessary documents from the EC for Khaleda on Sunday. |
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Monday, 11 August 2008 |
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Staff Correspondent The office timings for government, semi-government, autonomous and semi-autonomous organisations during the ensuing month of Ramadan will be 9am to 3.30 pm, the interim cabinet decided Sunday. The cabinet in a meeting at the Chief Adviser's Office set a recess time for zohr prayers from 1.15pm to 1.30pm, the CA's press secretary Syed Fahim Munaim told reporters after. |
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Monday, 11 August 2008 |
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Staff Correspondent The interim cabinet has restored August 15 as National Mourning Day, the day independence leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was assassinated in 1975, a government spokesman said on Sunday. |
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