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| Posted: 11 May 2009 05:35 PM PDT A Dhaka court yesterday summoned Jamaat leaders Ghulam Azam, Motiur Rahman Nizami, Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojahid, BNP lawmaker Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, and 32 others to appear before it on July 20 to explain why they should not be declared war criminals for committing crimes against humanity during Bangladesh’s liberation war in 1971. According to the court [...] |
| GTCL goes for ‘forced’ re-tender for 3rd time Posted: 11 May 2009 05:33 PM PDT Going against its tender evaluation committee and a project consultant, the Gas Transmission Company Ltd (GTCL) board headed by the Petrobangla chairman disqualified the lowest bid of a crucial $150 million gas compressor project. The project is aimed at improving gas supply pressure and flow, sources said. During the GTCL board meeting Saturday, which saw heated arguments [...] |
| 4th HC bench declines to hear Khaleda’s petition Posted: 11 May 2009 05:31 PM PDT This time a High Court (HC) bench assigned by Chief Justice MM Ruhul Amin has declined to hear BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s writ petition challenging the legality of the government decision to cancel the allotment of her cantonment house. Three HC benches had already shied away from hearing the former prime minister’s petition, and the court [...] |
| Demand for 100pc duty on newsprint import a conspiracy Posted: 11 May 2009 05:29 PM PDT As Bangladesh Paper Mills Association’s demanded 100 percent duty on newsprint imports, Newspaper Owners’ Association of Bangladesh (Noab) yesterday urged the government to keep zero tariff on newsprint imports to ensure press freedom and free flow of information. Expressing concern, Noab in a statement said the demand for imposing 100 percent duty on newsprint import is [...] |
| Parties’ Poll Expenses: Reports beyond public still Posted: 11 May 2009 05:25 PM PDT The Election Commission (EC) has not yet disclosed polls expenditure reports submitted to it by the political parties and candidates who contested the last parliamentary election although electoral laws make the disclosure mandatory to ensure people’s access to those. Representation of the People Order (RPO) provides that copies of polls expenditure of the parties and candidates [...] |
| Ghulam Azam: Focus back on, 8yrs after Posted: 11 May 2009 05:24 PM PDT Former Jamaat ameer Ghulam Azam stayed out of focus since he disappeared from open politics of Jamaat-e-Islami eight years ago. One of the front men of 1971 who actively helped Pakistani occupation forces’ attempts to foil the birth of Bangladesh, he was brought to spotlight once again after yesterday’s court order. Ghulam Azam, who was hyperactive [...] |
| Posted: 11 May 2009 05:18 PM PDT About 200 suspected BDR rebels were arrested from different sectors, battalions and camps in seven northern districts yesterday as the police started filing sedition cases against the border troops across the country for staging February 25-26 mutiny. Police and Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) assisted by army personnel arrested suspected mutineers from different BDR units as courts [...] |
| Posted: 11 May 2009 05:14 PM PDT Several hundred ready-made garment (RMG) workers vandalised more than a dozen garment factories at BSCIC industrial area in Fatullah of Narayanganj yesterday morning demanding a hike in their salaries. Meanwhile, another group of workers in Savar put up blockades on Dhaka-Aricha highway and damaged around 30 vehicles halting traffic movement for over an hour. Workers at both [...] |
| 2 killed in Rangamati gunfight Posted: 11 May 2009 05:11 PM PDT Two activists of United People’s Democratic Front (UPDF) were killed in a gun battle with army members during a raid at Badalchhari under sadar upazila yesterday. The army men rounded up two UPDF activists in the predawn raid. A huge number of arms and ammunition were also recovered from the UPDF hideout, 30 kilometres off the [...] |
| Proposed salaries to be slashed off a little Posted: 10 May 2009 04:43 PM PDT The finance ministry plans to cut 10 to 20 percent of the Pay Commission’s recommended scales for 20 grades of government employees. Sources say the ministry is now looking for ways to cut Tk 2,000-2,500 crore of the commission’s recommended expenditure for paying government employees. They said the ministry is currently examining what amount of money they [...] |
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