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Tuesday, 26 August 2008 |
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Staff Correspondent A writ petition filed on Monday urged the High Court to repeal the Truth and Accountability Commission Ordinance, which it claimed was unconstitutional. Supreme Court lawyer Adilur Rahman Khan, Ubinig executive director Farida Aktar, Awami League's women affairs secretary Dipu Moni and Odhikar acting director Nasiruddin Elan filed the petition with the High Court bench of Justice Khademul Islam Chowdhury and Justice Mashuk Hossain Ahmed. |
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Tuesday, 26 August 2008 |
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Coalmine Graft Case Staff Correspondent The High Court Monday granted former ministers M Shamsul Islam and MK Anwar anticipatory bail in the Baropukuria coalmine graft case. The court also asked the government to show cause as to why the case should not be declared illegal. |
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Tuesday, 26 August 2008 |
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Staff Correspondent The Election Commission starts photographing Urdu-speaking voters living in Dhaka camps on Monday, in the final leg of voter registration for Dhaka City Corporation, an official said. The final voter list for DCC areas and supplementary list for Urdu-speaking voters would be complete by September 10, Dhaka divisional deputy election commissioner Biswas Lutfur Rahman told bdnews24.com on Sunday. |
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Tuesday, 26 August 2008 |
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Our Correspondent Barisal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College was closed for an indefinite period Monday as violent clashes erupted between students and locals after a youth was beaten to death within the college campus on suspicion of being a thief. Riot police have been deployed on the campus and adjoining areas, and students have been ordered to leave the halls within 24 hours from 2pm. However, foreign students will be allowed to stay in dormitories. |
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Tuesday, 26 August 2008 |
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Sexual harassment Staff Correspondent Dhaka University authorities have sent a psychology department teacher on a year's forced leave after charges were proved against him involving sexual harassment of a female student, a university official said Sunday. The DU syndicate, in a meeting on Saturday, formed a five-member committee with pro-vice chancellor AFM Yusuf Haider as its convener to suggest further possible action to be taken against him, DU treasurer Syed Abul Kalam Azad said. |
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Tuesday, 26 August 2008 |
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Staff Correspondent Dhaka University teachers belonging to the Awami League-backed 'Blue Panel' have demanded removal of present pro-vice chancellor and treasurer and appointment of "neutral persons" to the two posts. The teachers, at a press conference at Dhaka University Teachers Club on Sunday, also pressed for the schedule of elections to other administrative posts including teachers' representatives to the university senate, syndicate and academic councils. |
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Tuesday, 26 August 2008 |
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Oil prices edged up to nearly $115 a barrel Monday as the U.S. dollar lost some ground against the euro and the Japanese yen, making commodities more attractive to investors, reports AP. By afternoon in Europe, light, sweet crude for October delivery was up 38 cents to $114.97 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract tumbled $6.59 on Friday to settle at $114.59 a barrel. |
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Tuesday, 26 August 2008 |
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AP, LONDON -- The U.S. dollar was mixed against other major currencies in early European trading Monday. The euro traded at $1.4753, down from $1.4775 late Friday in New York. |
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Tuesday, 26 August 2008 |
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BNP secretary general Khandker Delwar Hossain Monday said if party chief Khaleda Zia and son Tarique Rahman were not released the four-party alliance would be compelled to call for a series of programmes, reports bdnews24.com. He made the remarks when he had come to see Tarique at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital after Tarique slipped in the hospital bathroom, hurting his head. |
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Tuesday, 26 August 2008 |
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Desk Report Buying led stocks to close upbeat Monday, maintaining gains from last week's closing day, though the market witnessed a bearish trend over the previous nine weeks. Dhaka Stock Exchange's benchmark DGEN or general index opened the day on a positive note only to slump immediately. It however, recovered losses in the third hour of trading and maintained a stable curve afterwards. It gained 15.54 points or 0.57 percent to end on 2722.15. |
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Tuesday, 26 August 2008 |
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Bdnews24.com Awami League presidium member Amir Hossain Amu said on Monday it was not possible for the party to meet the conditions for registering by Oct 15, the deadline announced earlier in the day by the Election Commission. "Meeting all the conditions for registration requires a council of the party, which is not possible to arrange amid the state of emergency," Amu told reporters at the National Press Club. |
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Monday, 25 August 2008 |
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REUTERS, KOLKATA, India- Thousands of protesters surrounded a factory building what is billed as the world's cheapest car, the Nano, in the biggest demonstration yet against seizure of farmland for industry in West Bengal. Enthusiasm for the Tata Motor's $2,380 snub-nosed "people's car" has been dampened by months of protests by farmers refusing to give their land for the project, now hobbled by cost overruns. The car's planned October launch is also threatened. |
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Monday, 25 August 2008 |
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REUTERS, BEIJING- The tattoo on Lloy Ball's arm says "Anger is a gift", but on Sunday the 36-year-old U.S. volleyball veteran was feeling pure joy when he ended his fourth Olympic Games with a gold medal. "It's always one thing to be called an Olympian. You're an Olympian for life. To be called a gold medallist is—I don't know what goes on top of a cherry on a banana split but it's on top of that," Ball said after beating Brazil 3-1 in the final. |
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Monday, 25 August 2008 |
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REUTERS, BAGHDAD- Senator Joe Biden may be one of the only US politicians that can get Iraq's feuding Sunni, Shi'ite and Kurdish politicians to agree. But not in a good way. Across racial and religious boundaries, Iraqi politicians on Saturday bemoaned Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama's choice of running mate, known in Iraq as the author of a 2006 plan to divide the country into ethnic and sectarian enclaves. |
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Monday, 25 August 2008 |
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REUTERS, COLOMBO- Sri Lanka's ruling party won weekend provincial polls and said the victory was an electoral endorsement of its eight-month campaign to militarily crush Tamil Tiger separatists. President Mahinda Rajapaksa's United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA) won 56.3 percent of council seats in North Central province and 55.3 percent in Sabaragamuwa province, two of nine on the Indian Ocean island that has been fighting a civil war since 1983. |
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Monday, 25 August 2008 |
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Jubilation quickly gives way to anxiety over the sinking economy and growing militancy, and the bickering govt. La Times "How can I feed my family? How can I give my children a future?" he said, falling into step with other worshipers heading to afternoon prayers at a run-down neighborhood mosque in the capital. "That's what I am asking God every day. Every single day." |
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Monday, 25 August 2008 |
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REUTERS, KABUL- A NATO-chartered helicopter crashed on Sunday in Afghanistan's eastern province of Kunar near the border with Pakistan, causing one death, a spokesman for the alliance said. The civilian helicopter crashed soon after taking off from a military base in an area of the rugged province, the spokesman said, ruling out any hostile action. |
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Monday, 25 August 2008 |
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REUTERS, BATUMI, Georgia- A US navy warship arrived in a Georgia's main Black Sea port of Batumi on Sunday with humanitarian aid as Russia ignored Western demands to remove its remaining troops from Georgia's heartland. Russia says the residual troops are peacekeepers needed to avert further bloodshed and to protect the people of Georgia's separatist, pro-Moscow provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia two days after Moscow said it had wrapped up its withdrawal. |
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Monday, 25 August 2008 |
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REUTERS, KIRKUK- A suicide bomber killed at least five people and wounded eight more on Saturday in Iraq's northern city of Kirkuk, police said. The bomber detonated a suicide vest in a car market in southern Kirkuk, said Major-General Torhan Abdul-Rahman, a senior police official in the city. |
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Monday, 25 August 2008 |
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A fuel train exploded today on Georgia's main east-west rail line and police said it appeared to have hit a landmine, reports Times Online. Officials said that the train was on the main track of the line linking eastern and western Georgia, a vital trade route for oil exports from Azerbaijan to European markets. |
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