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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Locals, NRBs join hands to produce power in Sylhet

So far, the Bangladeshi overseas community has investments in airlines, hotels, real estate business, amusement parks and superstores.

A private sector entrepreneur will invest over Tk 4.5 billion to produce power in Sylhet region, the company said Monday.Backed by Bangladeshi diaspora, the Sylhet-based Barkatullah Electro Dynamics Ltd (BEDL) will add 51 megawatt electricity to the national grid by May with plans to add another 50 MW by early next year, managing director Gulam Rabbani Chowdhury said.(.(The Financial Express)) • FULL STORY

Many big shots involved in BDR carnage: Minister

Many big shots involved in BDR carnage: Minister
"Two foreign intelligence agencies have helped us to probe the BDR massacre," Khan

Commerce minister Faruq Khan said many powerful persons, including militants, were involved in the 25-26 February BDR mutiny and that they are now trying to save the BDR men directly involved in the killings and looting.(The News Today) • FULL STORY

Friday, March 6, 2009

Bangladesh E-News:

Online Sources of Current News on Bangladesh

Newspapers
Ajker Kagoj
Bengali language daily. Font installation required. Individual articles in PDF format. Archive goes back to January 1, 2006.

Bangladesh Observer
English language daily. Contains a sampling of current day's articles from the print edition. Archive goes back to 8 September 2003.

BDNews24
English-language daily. Site contains current issue only. Archive not available. Some features require site registration.

The Daily Star
English language daily. Archive back to November, 2001, but many issues missing.

Dainik Inqilab (Daily Inqilab)
Bengali language daily. Online issues only include November 13 through December 14, 2002, and can accessed by adding a date indication to the url, e.g. "http://www.bangladesh.net/dailyinqilab/december1/", etc.

Dainik Ittefaq (Daily Ittefaq)
Bengali language daily. No font installation required. Individual articles in PDF format. Archive goes back to October 28, 2001.

Dainik Janakantha
Bengali language daily. No font installation required. Individual articles in PDF format. Archive goes back to December 2003.

The Independent
English language daily. Archive back to September 2004, but many issues missing. Internal search engine apparently not fnctioning.

Jai Jai Din
Bengali language weekly. No font installation required. Individual articles in PDF format. Archive goes back approximately one year.

Jugantor
Bengali language daily. No font installation required. Individual articles in PDF format. Archive covers preceding 7 days.

Manavzamin
Bengali language daily. No font installation required. Individual articles in PDF format. Current day's issue only. No archives online.

The New Nation
English language daily. No browsable archive, but simple search engine gives access to articles from earlier issues.

Prothom Alo
Bengali language daily. No font installation required. Individual articles in PDF format. Archive goes back to 2004.

Sylhet Times
English and Bengali language daily. Bengali font installation required for Bengali language articles. Rolling six-month archive of backfiles and with full-text search.

Washington Post - Bangladesh Articles
Web compilation of current and recent Washington Post articles on Bangladesh. Archives link is for general keyword searching through entire archives, and is not limited to Bangladesh articles.

Bangladesh postpones Pakistan

Bangladesh postpones Pakistan : cricket series : Azad Majumder

The Bangladesh Cricket Board has postponed the tour of Pakistan cricket team for an indefinite period on the advice of the government, said the officials on Thursday.

�We have been advised by the home ministry to postpone the tour until further notice,� said BCB media chief Jalal Yunus.

Pakistan were due to arrive in Bangladesh on Saturday to play two Twenty20 matches and five one-day internationals against the hosts from March 10 to 22.

The decision came minutes before the BCB�s scheduled press conference regarding the security arrangement for the visiting team.

The title sponsor for the series and the Bangladesh team were also scheduled to be announced in two separate press conferences. The programmes were cancelled after the BCB announced its decision.

The BCB had planned an improved security for the tourists after unidentified gunmen ambushed the Sir Lanka cricket team bus and its police escorts on their way to the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore on Tuesday.

Six Sri Lankan players and a British coach working with the team were injured while seven Pakistanis were killed in the attack following which the Test was cancelled.

Bangladesh also have security concerns after last week�s mutiny at the country�s paramilitary forces headquarters at Pilkhana had left around 80 people, mostly army officers, dead.

The BCB officials did not comment on whether the postponement of the series have any link with the Lahore attack or BDR mutiny and said it acted totally on the Bangladesh government�s directives.

�Our preparations for Pakistan�s visit to Bangladesh were in the final stages and the Pakistan cricket team was also ready to tour. However, the concerned authorities of the Bangladesh government advised us to postpone the series for the time being,� said Yunus in a statement.

The BCB, however, said it received a directive from the International Cricket Council asking for the revised security plan for the series following the attack on the Sri Lankan cricketers, officials said.

�The ICC wants the players to be protected totally. So it wanted us to redraw our security arrangement and we are ready to work on their advice,� acting chief executive officer Nizamuddin Chowdhury said.

Bangladesh captain Mohammad Ashraful appeared disappointed after the postponement of the series, but said if it is linked with the security of the players he has no complaint.

�It�s frustrating that the series has been postponed for now. We were very keen to play against Pakistan. But at the same time you have to put the players� safety above everything,� said Ashraful.

The Pakistan series was a reciprocal trip as Bangladesh went on a tour last year to fill in after Australia had cancelled their trip at the eleventh hour on security grounds.

The BCB officials said they are now working with their Pakistani counterparts to set a suitable new date for the series.

Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ejaz Butt later at a press conference in Lahore said the tour had been postponed by two weeks and the new dates would be announced later on Thursday.

�The International Cricket Council has asked the Bangladesh board to beef up security in light of what happened with the Sri Lankan team. So the Bangladesh board requested us to postpone the tour by two weeks and we said fine,� Reuters quoted Butt as saying.

�After Tuesday�s incident we have to go through our government and get clearance for the tour which we are doing,� he added at the press conference.

The comments of Butt gave a clear indication that the series will go on before the end of the current month, though the BCB officials refused to confirm it.

�We are not sure whether it will take two weeks or one month. Whatever we decide we will let you know,� said Ahmed Sazzadul Alam, the organising committee chairman for the Pakistan tour.

22 more BDR soldiers charged

Few more arms, ammunition recovered, CID says probe in progress Staff Correspondent (NEW AGE BD)

The investigators on Thursday brought charges against 22 more Bangladesh Rifles soldiers in connection with last week�s rebellion at the headquarters of the border guards while search teams seized more arms and ammunition from inside the complex.

But they could not ascertain yet how many arms and ammunition had slipped out during the BDR rebellion. Nine days after the carnage, the teams seized a few arms and ammunition from inside the BDR headquarters on Thursday.

Earlier, army troops were deployed alongside the civil administration to recover the weapons and ammunition, which went missing during the February 25-26 troubles.

Tasked with investigation of the BDR carnage, officials at the Criminal Investigation Department said that their probe was in progress.

They brought charge against the 22 soldiers after examining video footages, newspaper photographs and statements made by the soldiers already arrested by the police, according to the investigators. The Rapid Action Battalion officers said they had also spotted 100 more soldiers involved in the rebellion on the basis of video footages.

The CID remanded seven accused, including deputy assistant director of BDR Syed Tawhidul Alam, the prime suspect, in its custody Monday after they were arrested from different places of the city.
?The probe was in progress as each member of investigation teams was given specific responsibility,� an inspector of the CID told reporters after visiting the BDR headquarters.

Last week�s rebellion by the paramilitary troops against their commanders, drawn from the regular army, left at least 71 people, mostly army officers, killed.

Sources close to the investigators said that Tawhid, the prime accused in the case filed with Lalbagh police station on Saturday in connection with the killings, looting, arson and hostage taking, admitted that he had information that such incident might take place inside the BDR headquarters.

But, he said, he had declined to be involved in the rebellion. Towhid and six others were remanded in custody for seven days. More than 450 others remained inside the BDR headquarters after weapons surrender on February 26.

The CID probe teams also spotted 14 others, some of whom had meetings with the ministers and the prime minister for negotiating surrender during the siege of the headquarters. They will also be shown arrested in the case, in which more than 1,000 unnamed soldiers were accused of the carnage.

Besides the CID probes, a high-powered investigation team headed by a retired secretary, Anis-uz-Zaman, also held a meeting Thursday. The 11-member committee also visited the rebellion site in search of evidence. The committee, reconstituted Tuesday, is supposed to submit its report in a week.

Another investigation team, commissioned by the army, was also collecting information.

The search teams seized a few arms and ammunition from inside the BDR headquarters Thursday. They believe more arms and ammunition remained missing.

�We are still searching for arms, ammunition and explosives inside the headquarters,� said Major Imran, a member of the team. He said that almost everyday, they were finding a few arms and ammunition, including grenades, inside the BDR headquarters.

The search team members said that the evidence indicated that arms and ammunition had gone missing from four armouries inside the headquarters on the first day of the rebellion. Bu the number and quantities of the missing weapons and explosives could not be ascertained.�