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Internet Edition. December 13, 2007, Updated: Bangladesh Time 12:00 AM

DGFI car burning in Rajshahi: 10 students, VC’s driver jailed for 3 years: Two RU teachers, PRO acquitted

Rajshahi Correspondent

A Speedy Trial Court in Rajshahi city yesterday sentenced 11 accused, including ten students of Rajshahi University to three years' rigorous imprisonment in the DGFI vehicle torching case and acquitted two RU teachers and a public relations officer of the charges.
The convicts are former RU vice-chancellor's driver Ataur Rahman Ata, and students Ayenuddin, who is also RU Chhatra League Secretary, Dipayan Sarker, Hafiz Uddin Kamal, Shakhawat Hossain, Kazi Abdul Latif, Shamim Ahmed, Abu Sayem, Fakrul Islam, Sarker Ayej and Mizanur Rahman Mithu.

4 DU teachers, 15 students indicted in second case: Accused teachers say they won't file bail prayer

Staff Reporter

Charges were framed in a court yesterday against four senior teachers and 15 students of Dhaka University in another case of breaking Emergency Powers Rules 2007 during the campus violence in August last.
On the other hand, accused teachers asked their families not to move any petition to the High Court seeking their bails in the cases filed against them under the Emergency Powers Rules 2007.
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) court framed the charges against four accused teachers and 15 students and rejected their pleas to acquit them from the case.

National security no longer depends on military power alone: President praises Armed Forces for protecting democracy

UNB, Dhaka

President Professor Dr Iajuddin Ahmed Wednesday said national security and defence no longer depend on military power alone, but on the overall national power and capacity manifested in national development.
"As you know, the concept of security has been assuming newer and broader dimension with every passing moment at the 21st Century," he said at the graduation ceremony of National Defence Course and Armed Forces War Course at the National Defence College in Mirpur Cantonment.

Activities of NGOs must be scrutinised

NGOs in Bangladesh have increasingly become subject to questions and criticism from the government, intellectuals and the public in general. During the long process of NGO development in Bangladesh, many NGOs have empowered themselves with structures and buildings, while empowerment of the poor has been rather limited. NGO activities and expenditures came under fire in the National Parliament and other fora in 1999.
An NGO Affairs Bureau (NAB) report submitted to the Prime Minister's Secretariat earlier in 1992 stated that various NGOs had disbursed 1.

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