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| Posted: 07 May 2009 02:13 PM PDT Industries got a whacking yesterday as experts and environmentalists maintained that rivers around Dhaka are getting polluted wholesale by industrial waste. Even industries with effluent treatment plants do not run those facilities. The capital’s sewage is also mostly untreated and dumped into the rivers as the Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) has very few [...] |
| Posted: 07 May 2009 02:12 PM PDT Bangladesh is going to get $200 million as budget support by December this year from the newly formed recession fund of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to tackle the fallout of global meltdown. Finance Minister AMA Muhith said this at a press briefing at his office yesterday on return from the ADB’s annual conference in Indonesian [...] |
| Posted: 07 May 2009 02:12 PM PDT Some senior and mid-level leaders of Awami League (AL) and the components of its grand alliance are busy with hectic lobbying to become cabinet members, as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is planning to expand the cabinet soon. Sources in the government and AL said Hasina’s plan was inspired by an evaluation report that had identified [...] |
| 55,000 Bangladeshis to get job gradually Posted: 07 May 2009 02:11 PM PDT Malaysia will gradually recruit the 55,000 Bangladeshi workers it sent back, said Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain yesterday. “Bangladesh High Commissioner in Kuala Lumpur said there was discussion in the Malaysian parliament on lifting the ban but the decision has not been officially shared yet,” Mosharraf Hossain told The Daily Star. “Malaysia needs [...] |
| Slack swine flu screening at ZIA Posted: 07 May 2009 02:11 PM PDT Shahabul, a migrant worker returning from Malaysia, was coughing yesterday as his relatives helped him away from Zia International Airport (ZIA) after his arrival. The 25-year-old man said he was forced to give up his job and return home after suffering from continuous fever and coughs for over three months, but on arrival at ZIA he [...] |
| Talks on change in constitution start Posted: 07 May 2009 02:10 PM PDT A parliamentary committee yesterday began deliberations on a private member’s bill seeking to repeal the constitutional provision that allows the president to assume the role of chief adviser to caretaker government. Along with another, the bill also proposes provisions for displaying the portrait of father of the nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at offices of [...] |
| Bismillah to remain in constitution Posted: 07 May 2009 02:10 PM PDT Law Minister Shafique Ahmed yesterday said Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim would remain in the constitution as it was even if the fifth amendment to the constitution was annulled in line with the High Court (HC) verdict. He refuted the allegation of former minister Moudud Ahmed that one-party BKSAL (Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League) rule and anarchy would [...] |
| Fresh notice to Khaleda to vacate house Posted: 07 May 2009 02:08 PM PDT Directorate of Military Lands and Cantonments yesterday served a fresh notice upon BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia asking her to show cause as to why she should not be asked to return the estate, including the house, within the next 15 days. Talking to The Daily Star a senior intelligence official said an officer of the Directorate [...] |
| Pakistan pounds Taliban hideouts Posted: 07 May 2009 02:07 PM PDT Pakistani attack helicopters and warplanes pounded suspected Taliban hideouts Thursday, as thousands of people fled the deadliest fighting to erupt in the northwest district of Swat in months. Aid workers warned that the humanitarian crisis was escalating in the area after families streamed out of the Taliban militant stronghold on foot or crammed into cars weighed [...] |
| Madhav may lead Nepal coalition Posted: 07 May 2009 02:06 PM PDT The CPN (UML) is all set to choose Madhav Kumar Nepal as the leader of the next coalition that will form the government. UML Vice-Chairperson Bidhya Devi Bhandari here on Wednesday said, “Madhav Kumar Nepal has the ability to bring together different parties. UML is going to pick him unanimously as the leader of the next [...] |
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