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Garment owners threaten factory closure: Violence feared, security demanded
Staff Reporter
Readymade Garment factory owners in Gazipur yesterday threatened factory closure unless the government ensures security of their establishments by September 25.
Owners of nearly 100 RMG units from the area met BGMEA president Anwar-ul-Alam Chowdhury Parvez yesterday noon and gave the deadline in a memorandum handed to their leader. About 810 readymade garment units are located in Gazipur area where nearly 10-lakh labourers are working.
"In recent times, incidents of attack, ransacking and arson in the garments factories in Gazipur have been rampant.  |
More areas in central region inundated
Staff Reporter
With rivers still swelling, more areas in northern and central region including low-lying areas of Dhaka and Rajshahi cities were inundated yesterday. Experts are apprehending more floods in next 24-48 hours, causing displacement and misery of tens of thousands of people.
Officials in the Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC) said the major rivers in the country were above danger levels and nearly 20 out of 64 districts were flooded.
Countrywide, rivers rose at 30 points, decreased at 39 points and were flowing over danger levels at 24 points yesterday compared to Friday, according to the FFWC. |
Problems of DMP-1: Most vehicles limp
Mamunur Rashid
A little less than half the motor vehicles of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) are either out of order or unworthy of plying on the road, let alone serving the purpose of efficiently preventing burgeoning crime in the city.
At least 40 per cent of the vehicles are 15 to 20 years old. The past governments failed miserably to solve the transport problem of the city police, according to DMP sources.
The sources said, in the city of about 1.5 crore people there are only 23,000 police personnel with only 614 transports, out of them, 40 per cent are out of order. |
Zardari elected Pak President
BBC Online
Asif Ali Zardari says his win was a victory for democracy Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, has won a sweeping victory in Pakistans presidential election. The election was called after Pervez Musharraf resigned rather than risk being impeached.
Zardari faces severe economic problems and a rampant Islamist insurgency that are threatening Pakistans stability. During the voting a bomb killed at least 15 people near Peshawar city.
The president is elected by secret ballots in the national and four provincial assemblies. |
Pre-election scenario: Heavyweights out Hasanuzzaman Khan
The Government in an apparent shift of its policy towards the corruption suspects are not contesting their release on bail. In an appeal against bail order of Tarique Rahman Anti Corruption Commission counsel Anisul Huq did not appear before the appellate court. In the last fortnight a number of heavyweight politicians detained on corruption charges have walked to freedom after being bailed out by the higher judiciary.
Some of them are Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, Mohammad Nasim, Obaidul Kader, Rafiqul Islam, Abdul Jalil and Salman Rahman. |
Salman Shah remembered
Staff Reporter
Film artistes, makers, producers and directors at a memorial meeting remembered the late superstar Salman Shah and his performances.
Speakers said though Salman Shah spent a very short time in the film industry, he dominated the filmdom by virtue of his performances.
The meeting was held at the Zahir Raihan Colour Lab Auditorium of Bangladesh Film Development Corporation (BFDC) in the city yesterday.
Salman Shah Smriti Parishad organised the meeting in association with Asian Satellite Television Audience Rights Movement (ASTARM), Bangladesh Journalist Welfare Association, Only Entertainment and Media Vision to mark the 12th death anniversary of Salman Shah. |
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Internet Edition. September 7, 2008, Updated: Bangladesh Time 12:00 AM 
