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| Posted: 24 Apr 2009 01:59 PM PDT Bangladesh’s hope of meeting the international deadline to introduce machine-readable passport (MRP) by April, 2010 looks bleak and the authorities are now not even thinking about the 2014 deadline for introducing e-passports. The government’s frequent change of mind has led to delays in launching the MRP project in the past. Shifting of stance of the [...] |
| Anomalies in Dal-Bhat scheme key factor Posted: 24 Apr 2009 01:54 PM PDT The jawans punished for irregularities in the BDR’s Operation Dal-Bhat led the vicious killings during the Pilkhana mutiny on February 25-26. However, the bloody revolt could be traced to the grievances nursed for years over alleged discriminations against the border guards, said sources close to the home ministry’s high-powered probe committee and Criminal Investigation Department (CID). The [...] |
| World heritage site left in ruins Posted: 24 Apr 2009 01:53 PM PDT Terracotta artefacts at the Paharpur Buddhist Monastery, a world heritage site, are on the verge of ruination due to sheer negligence of the Department of Archaeology. The Monastery, one of the most important archeological sites in South Asia, was declared as a protected site dates back to 1919 during the British colonial rule. Custodian of [...] |
| MPs’ discretionary funds used without rules Posted: 24 Apr 2009 01:52 PM PDT Members of the Parliament (MPs) have been spending from their annual discretionary fund totalling around Tk 3 crore each fiscal year since 1992, while guidelines for the spending are yet to be formulated. Legal experts said the rules must be made to give the expenditures legal coverage, otherwise serious questions might be raised about them. [...] |
| Govt reviews Milk Vita probe reports Posted: 24 Apr 2009 01:52 PM PDT The government has started reviewing probe reports about alleged embezzlement of a large amount of fund from state-run Milk Vita during the BNP-Jamaat-led alliance government between 2001 and 2006. The reports point fingers at former local government, rural development and cooperatives (LGRD) minister Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan. “The ministry is reviewing the reports submitted during the immediate-past [...] |
| BCL, JCD partners in ‘admission business’ Posted: 24 Apr 2009 01:39 PM PDT Some 330 students failed to take admission into Pabna Edward College this academic year because of illegal ‘admission business’ by some student organisations and a section of teachers. Sources said leaders of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) and Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) and a section of teachers of the college allegedly took money from the admission seekers [...] |
| 3 injured in gun attack over city slum’s control Posted: 24 Apr 2009 01:17 PM PDT At least three people including two local Awami League (AL) and Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leaders were injured yesterday as unidentified criminals opened fire on them at the AL office in the city’s Fulbaria Railway Colony centring an internal feud over control of a slum. Wounded Ruhul Amin, 56, joint convener of Ward-56 AL unit, his [...] |
| Ctg chemical complex reopens after 6yrs Posted: 24 Apr 2009 01:16 PM PDT Industries Minister Dilip Barua yesterday said the draft industrial policy that the government announces today is aimed at turning Bangladesh into a middle-income country by 2021 when the country will celebrate its golden jubilee. The minister said this while talking to reporters after the inaugural ceremony of reopening of the state-owned Chittagong Chemical Complex (CCC) [...] |
| China’s help sought for rail link with Myanmar Posted: 24 Apr 2009 01:16 PM PDT Bangladesh has sought financial and technical assistance from China to expand the country’s railway network up to Gundum in Myanmar from Dohazari in Chittagong via Ramu in Cox’s Bazar to connect it with the Trans-Asian Railway (TAR). The government has already sent a letter to the Chinese government seeking assistance for laying about 130-kilometre railway tracks [...] |
| Posted: 24 Apr 2009 01:10 PM PDT Vessel movement in Chittagong port resumed in full swing from yesterday morning. Sources in Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) said the main channel between Red and Green buoy at the Karnaphuli estuary has been dredged wide. However, for incoming movement of vessels the authority had to wait till yesterday morning as an extra precaution, sources said. Nine [...] Source : www.bangladeshnews.com.bd |
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