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Thursday, 08 May 2008 |
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Staff Reporter The business community in Chittagong has asked the government to scrap the gas supply deal with Karnaphuli Fertiliser Company and provide gas connections for other industrial units in the city. "The KAFCO deal is destroying the country," Saifuzzaman Chowdhury, president of Chittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industry, alleged at a press conference at the CCCI office. |
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Wednesday, 30 April 2008 |
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Chittagong City Corporation organized Khatme Quran and Milad Mahfil to pray for those victims who lost their lives during the disastrous cyclone on April 29 in the country at its prayer hall yesterday , says a press release. Acting CCC Mayor Alhaj M Monzur Alam was present on the occasion Madrasha inspector Moulana Alhaj Harunor Rashid conducted the religious function while Moulana Alhaj Mostaq led the monajat. |
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Wednesday, 23 April 2008 |
Staff Reporter
Two workers of a ship breaking firm were killed in gas cylinder explosion while breaking ship at Shitalpur in Sitakundu upazila here Sunday night.
Police said gas cylinder of a foreign ship exploded when the workers of Namrin Ship Breaking yard were breaking it about 10pm on Sunday leaving Abdul Zahed and Abdur Razzak, 27, dead on the spot. |
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Wednesday, 23 April 2008 |
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The police Monday cited demand for money as an early lead to the killing of writer Momena Ahmed, the widow of a Dhaka University teacher.
The 65-year-old writer, the wife of the late chairman of Dhaka University's Applied Physics Department Sultan Ahmed, was knifed to death at her Dhanmondi home Monday. |
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Tuesday, 22 April 2008 |
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CUJ Biennial Election Staff Reporter The biennial election 2008 of Chittagong Union of Journalists (CUJ) was held on the Chittagong Press Club Premises from 9:00am to 4:00pm without any break on Sunday last. Mostaq Ahmed and Nazim Uddin Shymol were elected president and general secretary in the election. |
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Monday, 21 April 2008 |
Slaughtered bodies of two youths were found at Nabiabad in Debidwar upazila on Dhaka-Chittagong highway Saturday morning, reports UNB.
On information by local people, police recovered the bodies Faruqur Rahman, 30, son of Roushan Ali of Nabiabad and Selim Hossain, 30, son of Nurul Islam of nearby village and sent those to hospital morgue for autopsy. |
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Monday, 21 April 2008 |
Major General Sheikh Md Monirul Islam has been appointed Director General of the National Security Intelligence (NSI), reports UNB.
General Monir, who was the DG of the Special Security Force (SSF), will join his new office (Sunday), said an official announcement Saturday. |
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Monday, 21 April 2008 |
At least 20 workers were injured, five of them seriously, amid violence triggered by an attack by goons at a garment factory in the DEPZ new zone on Saturday, reports UNB.
Sources said a clash ensued at about 8am between the workers of ''Shine Fashion Ltd'' and a local terrorist gang when the outsiders attacked them over Thursday''s work-abstention programme in the factory. |
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Monday, 21 April 2008 |
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The state-run Ansar-VDP Bank has set a record of realizing Taka 3 crore in one single day with opening of the “halkhata” at its 81 branches in an attempt to revive the traditional business practices coinciding with the Boishakhi festivity, reports agency. |
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Monday, 21 April 2008 |
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OF Memorial Foundation formed to protect the memory of two personalities of Raozan namely Hazrat Osman Ali Master(Rm) and FF AK Fazlul Hoq awarded scholarship to 100 learners under the education promotion scholarship project of Children’s popular monthly magazine Toitombur, says a press releases. |
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Monday, 21 April 2008 |
Lottery today |
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Saturday, 19 April 2008 |
A court here sentenced three persons to death and two others life imprisonment for killing a man at village Durlobpur under Alamdanga upazila of the district in 1994, reports agency.
Court sources said the each of the convicts on the death row has been fined Taka one lakh each while those punished with life imprisonment Taka 50 thousand each. |
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Saturday, 19 April 2008 |
Pabna Jail Superintendent and two guards were accused in a case of taking Tk 1 lakh as bribe from Bera pourasava officials, reports UNB.
Jail guard Akteruzzaman filed the case with Pabna Sadar thana. It said jail subedar Ishaq and guard Azizul in connivance with Superintendent Rezaul Karim allowed the Accountant and Engineer of Bera pourasava to meet poura chairman Abdul Baten in the jail after taking Tk 1 lakh as bribe from them. |
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Wednesday, 16 April 2008 |
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Appointment of Adviser Chittagong Water and Sewage Authority(CWASA) and NJS Consultant Co Ltd yesterday signed a deal on appointment of an adviser for Karnafully Water Supply Project, says a press release. Mr. Takiuchi, president of NJS and Md. Shafiqul Islam, Director of Karnafully Water Supply Project under CWASA signed the agreement on behalf of their respective organization. |
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Wednesday, 16 April 2008 |
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Acting CCC Mayor Alhaj M Monzur Alam yesterday said, education plays the key role in vertical development of a person, family, state as well as society. There is no alternative to education and it is difficult to fill in the deficit in education, he observed. The mayor made these observations while speaking as Chief Guest at the annual prize distribution ceremony at city’s Gul Ejar Begum City Corporation Muslim Girls High School on Wednesday last. |
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Monday, 14 April 2008 |
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Joint forces arrested three staff of Chittagong City Corporation while pilfering oil at Cement Crossing in Patenga on Sunday. The detainees were identified as account assistant Abu Zaheer, office assistant Mohammad Alamgir and driver Golam Nur. |
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Monday, 14 April 2008 |
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Silk line mourns Begum Hazera Khatun, wife of late businessman and social worker S.H.Khan and mother of former National Cricket Captain Akram Khan and footballer Iqbal Khan breathed her last at Square Hospital after prolonged illness on Friday last, said a press release. She was 76. She is survived by five sons, five daughters, grandchildren and a host of relatives. National cricketers Nafis Iqbal and Tamim Iqbal are her grandsons. |
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Friday, 11 April 2008 |
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Bigots clash with Ctg police Swarup Battacharjee About one hundred of angry activists of Hathazari Madrasha(Big) including 8 cops were injured following a clash between the Islamists and the police members over alleged death of a protester taking part in a protest against proposed national women development policy on Friday, police and witnesses said. |
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Thursday, 10 April 2008 |
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Chairman of Chittagong Development Auhtority(CDA) Engineer Shah Mohammed Akhteruddin yesterday launched the ground breaking work of a 15-storied building at city’s Ice Factory road, says a press release. He also offered prayer after laying the foundation of the multi-storied building. |
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