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| Posted: 09 May 2009 01:21 PM PDT Previous governments may not have kept the promise to build a nuclear power plant for the last 40 years but this Awami League government is committed to make it happen during its tenure, said State Minister for Science and ICT Yeafesh Osman yesterday. “We mean business,” he said at a discussion titled “Prospects of nuclear power [...] |
| Govt’s borrowing from banks may rise 34pc Posted: 09 May 2009 01:18 PM PDT The government’s bank borrowing target for the next fiscal year (FY) may be increased by 34 percent over this year’s and set at Tk 18,000 crore due to a possible mismatch between budgetary earning and expenditure next year. In the current FY, the target of bank borrowing is Tk 13,500 crore. Finance ministry sources however said the [...] |
| Posted: 09 May 2009 01:15 PM PDT Eminent scientist and husband of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Dr MA Wazed Miah passed away yesterday afternoon in the capital’s Square Hospital after a prolonged battle with multiple illnesses. The prime minister was beside her husband at the moment of his passing away. He had been suffering for long from high blood pressure, diabetes, asthma, and [...] |
| NID cards only for those eligible for becoming voters Posted: 09 May 2009 01:13 PM PDT Only people eligible for being registered as voters will now be entitled to get national identity (NID) card, according to a draft national identity registration act. It also proposed that preparation of fake NID card and any cooperation in this regard would be considered a non-bailable offence with the offender liable to imprisonment for up to [...] |
| Khaleda rushes to Sudha Sadan, consoles Hasina Posted: 09 May 2009 01:05 PM PDT Leader of the Opposition Khaleda Zia rushed to Sudha Sadan last night to stand beside Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and convey her condolence on the death of Dr MA Wazed Miah. The BNP chairperson went there around 9:00pm and stayed for around 25 minutes. The BNP also decided last night to postpone a human chain programme today [...] |
| Troops kill 55 Taliban in fierce Swat fighting Posted: 09 May 2009 01:02 PM PDT Doctors rushed to treat wounded Pakistani civilians and desperate refugees looted UN supplies yesterday, as thousands of troops backed by bomb-dropping warplanes sought to purge Taliban militants from a northwestern valley. The army said it killed as many as 55 more Taliban fighters in clashes in the Swat Valley on Saturday. Four soldiers were wounded, a [...] |
| Project for disabled gets uncertain Posted: 09 May 2009 12:59 PM PDT The fate of $35 million donor-funded project for the welfare of the persons with disability (PWDs) and disadvantaged children is uncertain due to negligence of the government in launching it formally within the timeframe, which has already expired. The World Bank and Bangladesh government signed an agreement on December 28 last year for the five-year term [...] |
| Infighting grips JCD over new committee Posted: 09 May 2009 12:57 PM PDT Internal feud has raised its ugly head in BNP’s student wing Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) ahead of the formation of a new central committee as part of the party’s initiative to reform its associated organisations. The row was sparked over whether a fresh full-fledged central committee will be formed or a convening committee will run the [...] |
| Ex-NSI officer taken to TFI for quizzing Posted: 09 May 2009 12:54 PM PDT Further interrogation of arrested former director (security) of National Security Intelligence (NSI) Mohammad Sahab Uddin began at TFI cell in Dhaka yesterday afternoon in connection with the Chittagong arms haul case. Sahab Uddin was brought to the Task Force for Interrogation (TFI) cell in the afternoon. The interrogation started around 4:00pm, said the sources. A Chittagong court [...] |
| Foreign forces being invited in search of militants Posted: 09 May 2009 12:49 PM PDT Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami yesterday said a certain quarter is inviting foreign forces to Bangladesh in search of militants mentioning the country’s inability to fight against militancy. The Jamaat chief was addressing a council of Bangladesh Islamic Lawyers Association (BILA) as chief guest at Diploma Engineers’ Institute in the capital yesterday morning. He said besides Jamaat-e-Islami, [...] |
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