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Violation of Emergency Power Rules: Complainant refrains from naming four DU teachers as accused
Staff Reporter
The trial of the four teachers and 15 students of Dhaka University began yesterday in the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Court in Dhaka.
ACMM Golam Robbani has recorded deposition of complainant Sergeant Shawkat Ahmed of Shahbagh thana in the trial, which was the first session of the Court after the charge framing in the case.
The case was filed with the Shahbagh thana against four teachers and 15 students for making provocative statements and encouraging illegal demonstration, which began on August 20, under sections 3 (4) and 6 (10) of the Emergency Power Rules (EPR).  |
Murder of freedom fighters in Keraniganj in Nov '71: Nizami, Mujahid, other Jamaat leaders sued
Staff Reporter
A murder case was filed yesterday against Ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh Maulana Matiur Rahman Nizami, secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid and 11 others of the party accusing them of murdering three freedom fighters in Keraniganj during the War of Liberation in 1971.
Mozaffar Ahmed Khan, a residence of Bhawalkhanbari and Keraniganj unit commander of Bangladesh Muktijoddha Sangsad, filed the case with Chief Metropolitan Magistrate court, Dhaka in the morning accusing the Jamaat leaders of murdering three freedom fighters in Keraniganj on November 25, 1971. |
'Horticulture not bed of roses'
JU Correspondent
Frustration grips the horticulturists of the country, as they are not getting the expected return for their cultivated flowers against the increased prices of fertilisers and insecticides.
The commercial cultivation of flowers, a new sector in the agricultural economy, shows a good prospect in the country. It is gathered from Dhaka Flower Traders' Multipurpose Welfare Cooperative Society that the annual sale of flowers at Shahbagh wholesale market amounts to almost Tk 11 crore per year. Domestic production of flowers cannot meet the total demand. |
Mild cold wave likely to continue next few days
UNB, Dhaka
Mild cold waves that started sweeping over Dhaka City and some northern districts from Sunday night are likely to continue for next few days.
Dhaka Met Office officials told UNB on Monday morning that the cold waves started sweeping over districts in Rajshahi division, Jessore, Tangail, Mymensingh and the capital. It may continue for couple of days more.
This morning, the lowest temperature of 7.3 degree Celsius was recorded at Ishwardi and over 10 degree Celsius in other northern districts while 13.7 degree Celsius in the capital. |
Diana 'rubbished’ marriage rumour
BBC Online
Diana and Lady Annabel Goldsmith were good friends Princess Diana said she needed marriage to Dodi Al Fayed "like a rash on my face", a friend has told her inquest. Lady Annabel Goldsmith, 73, said the words were the last Diana ever said to her just days before her death. She said Diana was having a "wonderful" time with Al Fayed and felt "she had never been so spoiled". But when Lady Annabel asked if she was planning an engagement, she said the princess replied: "I would need marriage like a rash on my face." Diana and Al Fayed were killed along with their driver Henri Paul in a car crash in Paris in 1997. |
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Internet Edition. December 18, 2007, Updated: Bangladesh Time 12:00 AM 
