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Half of city braces for 48-hr gas supply cut: Shut-down of 2 power plants to accentuate people's miseries
Staff Reporter
Gas and electricity supply to almost half of the Dhaka city and its outskirts have remained partially suspended from midnight last night for a major repair work on the main gas-transmission line at Daudkandi in Comilla, shutting down kitchens in thousands of households, disrupting industrial production and closing two major power plants.
Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Limited (TGTDCL), a company of Petrobangla, said the normal supply of gas would be more or less disrupted for 48 hours from Saturday midnight to Monday midnight because of a repair work in the 20-inch diameter BKB-Demra High-Pressure Gas Pipeline under the national grid at Shahidnagar, Daudkandi in Comilla.  |
Tagore's medal theft: Accomplice of Jibon Singh held in city
Staff Reporter
Police yesterday arrested one Shiplu, an accomplice of Indian national Jibon Singh, one of the accused in a case in connection with the theft of Rabindranath Tagore's Nobel prize medal.
Disclosing this, an officer of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID officer told journalists that police have been interrogating Shiplu with alleged links to the theft. He was arrested in a raid from a house in Lalbagh in the capital on Thursday night.
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The Gold Medal of Nobel Prize of Poet Rabindranath Tagore (Thakur) was stolen from Rabindranath Museum sometimes before March 24, 2004. |
Appellate Division’s observation on High Court stay order on Hasina's trial : 'Such defiance is prone to let loose a judicial anarchy’ UNB, Dhaka
A discord between the two wings of the Supreme Court-the High Court Division and the Appellate division-has surfaced over the extortion case against detained former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina who stands trial under the Emergency Power Rules.
The Appellate Division censured two Judges of a division bench of the High Court comprising Justice Shah Abu Nayeem Mominur Rahman and Justice Shahidul Islam for their Jan 17 orders. The apex court accused them of tending to let loose a judicial anarchy. |
Trial of another graft case against Hasina begins today Staff Reporter
Detained former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday alleged that the Government suddenly decided to begin trial of the second graft case against her sensing she could not be punished in Azam J Chowdhury's case.
Her Counsel Advocate Quamrul Islam said this after meeting her at the Special Jail on the premises of Parliament building. Sheikh Hasina is the President of Awami League (AL).
"The Government is clear that I could not be punished in Azam J Chowdhury's case as he did not identify me as an accused in the Court. |
Demarcation of constituencies: Polls won’t be hampered due to litigation
Staff Reporter
The forthcoming general elections would not be hampered if aggrieved persons file writ petitions against the delimitation of parliamentary constituencies.
Election Commissioner Brig Gen (Retd) M Sakhawat Hossain said this yesterday while addressing a view-exchange meeting on the activities of formulating voter list at Chouddogram Upazila Parishad office.
He said City Corporation elections will be held in April ahead of the general elections. Earlier, debates will be held among the mayoral candidates to ensure the public representatives' accountability. |
Sarkozy marries Bruni
BBC Online
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has married his girlfriend, former model Carla Bruni, in Paris, according to the mayor who performed the ceremony.
Francois Lebel told French Europe-1 radio that the bride wore white and looked "ravishing, as usual".
Earlier, French radio station RTL said the couple wed at the Elysee Palace, the president's official residence.
Sarkozy's romance with Bruni has been the subject of intense speculation in the French press for several months. The president divorced his ex-wife, Cecilia, in October 2007. |
Chadian rebels occupy capital, President seized
AFP, Ndjamena
Chadian rebels seized the capital Ndjamena Saturday after three hours of fighting with government troops, and President Idriss Deby Itno remained at the presidential palace, a military source said.
"The whole of the city is in the hands of the rebels. It's down to mopping-up operations," the source said, adding that Deby was "still in the presidential palace".
Clashes began around 20 kilometres (12 miles) north of the capital, rebels and military sources said, while a French army source later said around 2,000 rebels were engaged in fierce battles with government troops in the city. |
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Internet Edition. February 3, 2008, Updated: Bangladesh Time 12:00 AM 
