Extortion case against Hasina The High Court (HC) yesterday vacated its earlier order staying the proceedings of the extortion case against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina filed by businessman Azam J Chowdhury. The HC bench of Justice ABM Khairul Haque and Justice Momtaj Uddin Ahmed passed the order following a petition moved by Barrister Rafique-ul Huq ... Read more
Month: May 2009
At last HC to hear Khaleda’s writ on cantt house on May 18
Stay on extortion case against PM vacated for its withdrawal Eventually the High Court agreed to hear on May 18 a writ challenging government notice which asked BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia to abandon her cantonment house. A division bench comprising Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed and Justice Moinul Islam Chowdhury fixed the date after the ... Read more
Hooligans out to destroy RMG sector
BGMEA warns of forced shutdown of factories Hooligans are out again to create an unrest in the RMG sector ahead of holy Ramadan. According to an intelligence agency, 27 hooligans in Dhaka and Chittagong are directly involved with the unrest in RMG sector. But the government is yet to come up with any stringent measures ... Read more
Cabinet body okays purchase of 420 jeeps for UZ chairmen
The cabinet committee on public purchase yesterday approved procurement of 420 jeeps and ten speedboats for newly elected upazila chairmen who assumed office last week. Of the 420 fleet 180 will be coming in the current fiscal year while the rest will come in the next financial year. To this affect Tk 180 crore has ... Read more
Tk 30,500cr ADP planned
Budget will have a new public-private partnership component: Muhith Government plans Tk 30,500 crore Annual Development Programme (ADP) for fiscal 2009-10. This was disclosed by Finance Minister AMA Muhith yesterday. “The government will take up the challenge of implementing the big ADP to prove that it has the implementing capacity”, Muhith told reporters after a ... Read more
Heads they keep high in horror
Peyara Begum’s son’s teacher attacked her with acid after she refused to return ‘the love’ he so undeservedly tried to bestow on her. Her face was burnt as was major portion of her body, and her entire face had to be reconstructed. To pay for this treatment Peyara had to sell all her properties. And ... Read more
Crimes galore give the lie to police vigil in city
Despite beefed up security measures and enhanced police vigilance, incidents of murder, robbery, extortion, snatching and mugging have increased in the city at an alarming rate, creating a sense of insecurity. Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) commissioner AKM Shahidul Haque expressed his concern in this regard and asked the police to control the law and order ... Read more
3 more public universities in the offing
The government has planned to establish three more public universities and add three more private universities to a large number of varsities under private venture to take in rising numbers of students for higher education. “Government approval of the planned universities is in the final stage of processing,” University Grants Commission (UGC) Chairman Prof Nazrul ... Read more
Boro farmers in north suffer surprise loss
Boro farmers in some northern districts, especially in Bogra, face a huge loss as they are forced to sell their produce far below the production costs and at almost half the prices they got last season. “My father lost more than Tk 1.36 lakh cultivating Boro in 3.33 hectares of land this year,” said Abdul ... Read more
Quick disposal of acid attack cases planned
Monitoring cell to be formed at every district, says home minister Monitoring cells would be formed at district levels for quick disposal of acid-violence cases, said Home Minister Sahara Khatun yesterday. “Normally the acid-violence cases take time delaying acid-victims justice. A national monitoring cell has already been formed in this regard headed by a joint ... Read more
WiMAX challenges Wi-Fi
This young tech weds the ease of Wi-Fi and the range of cellphone towers. When most people hear “wireless Internet,” they think “Wi-Fi.” The technology has allowed millions of computers and mobile devices to browse the Web without the snarl of cords. But there’s another wireless standard out there – one that’s arguably more tempting ... Read more
Cristiano Ronaldo shelves dream move to Madrid
Manchester United will continue to tolerate the diva-like behaviour of Cristiano Ronaldo in the Old Trafford dressing-room next season after it emerged last night that the World Player of the Year is close to dropping his pursuit of a move to Real Madrid for another 12 months. However, United’s players are far more concerned about ... Read more
Fahmida Nabi charms the NRBs
Recently singer Fahmida Nabi visited the United States. The purpose of her visit was to attend a Dhallywood award giving ceremony, which featured nearly 60 Bangladeshi artistes and cultural personalities. Arranged by the Bangladeshi expatriates in the US, the programme was held on May 2 in Columbus, Ohio. Fahmida also attended a programme in Jackson ... Read more
Beximco Pharma eyes export market expansion
Beximco Pharma, a leading medicine manufacturer, now targets expansion of its export markets to Australia and North American countries. Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), a forum of 10 Middle Eastern countries, and Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) in Australia have already accredited the company in 2008 for exports. The combined pharmaceutical market of GCC is valued at ... Read more
Week-long housing fair begins in Dhaka
A seven-day housing fair of Sheltech, a leading real estate company of the country, begins in the Dhaka city today. The Sheltech is going to arrange the fair when the country’s businesses started feeling the pinch of global recession, Toufiq M Seraj, managing director of the real estate firm, said at a press conference on ... Read more
A tale of tea workers
On the inaugural day of the ten-day festival of documentary films on environment and people, the organisers screened ‘The Story of Tea Workers’, jointly directed by Philip Gain and Ronald Halder in the evening of Sunday at Drik Gallery in Dhanmondi. The festival is organised by the non-government organisation called Society for Environment and Human ... Read more
Abahani take on SL Army today
Dhaka Abahani will be looking to start their AFC President’s Cup campaign with a win when they take on Sri Lanka Army team in the inaugural match of Group B at the Bangabandhu National Stadium at 6:00pm today. Sri Lanka Army, playing for the first time in any AFC affiliated competition, however, vowed
We know what you’re doing Buchanan
It was tolerable for the first three games but after the Kolkata Knight Riders ignored Mashrafe Bin Mortaza for the tenth consecutive time, patience is running thin for millions of cricket fans in the country. The Knight Riders turned a million heads when they insisted on landing Mashrafe in their books for an astonishing 600,000 ... Read more
Mohammedan lift Women’s Club Cup
Mohammedan added yet another feather in their cap when the popular club clinched the first-ever Women’s Club Cup cricket title at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur yesterday. The Motijheel outfit kept their cool in the battle of nerves to record a five-wicket win over pre-tournament favourites Bangladesh Ansar and VDP. Mohammedan posted 127 for ... Read more
Freed Journalist Roxana Saberi Leaves Iranian Prison, Lawyer Says
TEHRAN: Iranian-Ameican journalist Roxana Saberi has been released from Evin prison after an Iranian Appeals Court downgraded her spying conviction from its original 8-year term to a lesser, suspended sentence of two years, her lawyer said. Saberi’s father, Reza, of Fargo, ND, said today in Tehran that he plans to bring his daughter home within ... Read more