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All set to send Hasina abroad: AL chief now at Square Hospital: Medical board recommendations sent to Govt
Shahidul Islam
Detained former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is likely to fly for the US anytime soon, as senior doctors yesterday recommended to send her abroad immediately for medical treatment after examining her health condition.
Eight senior medical experts, including Vice-Chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) Prof Dr Mohammad Abu Tahir, specialists-Prof Dr Tofail Ahmed and Prof Dr ABM Abdullah (Medicine), Prof Dr Syed Modasser Ali and Prof Dr Pran Gopal Dutta (ENT), Prof Dr M U Kabir Chowhdury (Skin), Prof Dr Sanwar Hossain (Heart) and Prof Dr Habib A Millat, the supervising physician of Hasina at Square Hospital, where they scrutinised her ailments.  |
Dr Iqbal, wife, sons, daughter all jailed: Property worth Tk 15cr to be confiscated
UNB, Dhaka
Former Awami League lawmaker Dr HBM Iqbal was yesterday sentenced to 13 years' imprisonment for amassing wealth illegally and concealing his actual assets in the account submitted to the Anti-Corruption Commission.
His wife Dr Momtaz Begum Dolly, sons Moyeen Iqbal and Imran Iqbal and daughter Nawrin Iqbal were also jailed for three years for "aiding and abetting" him in protecting his "ill-gotten wealth".
A special court trying high-profile corruption suspects at the parliament-bhaban complex delivered the judgment in the corruption case, filed as part of an anti-corruption drive launched by the caretaker regime against the backdrop of the past sociopolitical crisis. |
Right to Information Ordinance by April: State security, defence kept beyond its purview
BSS, Dhaka
'Right to Information Ordinance' is likely to be proclaimed by April to enable people having access to information for ensuring transparency and accountability in the democratic process.
An eight-member committee headed by Joint Secretary (development) of the Ministry of Information, has already been formulated a draft of the ordinance after reviewing the Right to Information Report prepared by the Law Commission and also the existing laws in the neighbuoring countries. |
Obama hopes to win Mississippi
AP, Washington
Mississippi Democrats are deciding the last in a series of presidential contests between Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton before the two rivals settle in for a six-week battle to win Pennsylvania.
Mississippi's large black electorate in Tuesday's voting makes it fertile ground for Obama, who has swept the other Deep South states and has pulled huge margins among black voters. Clinton, the New York senator and former first lady, campaigned in the state last week, but by Monday was in Pennsylvania, where the primary is April 22. |
AL, CPB demand JS poll schedule
UNB, Dhaka
Awami League and the Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) yesterday jointly demanded parliamentary election schedule immediately and asked for holding the polls as per announced electoral roadmap.
Talking to newsmen after their meeting, AL leader Tofail Ahmed and CPB leader Mujahidul Islam Selim observed that doubt has been created in people's mind about holding election in time and declaration of election schedule could remove this uncertainty. They held their bilateral meeting at acting AL president Zillur Rahman's Gulshan residence on the prevailing political circumstances. |
Scandal-hit New York Governor says 'sorry’
AP, New York
As Gov. Eliot Spitzer faced mounting calls to resign amid a prostitution scandal, a law enforcement official said Tuesday that the governor first came under suspicion because of cash payments from several bank accounts to an account operated by a call-girl ring.
Spitzer was the initial target of the investigation and was tracked using court-ordered wiretaps that appear to have recorded him arranging for a prostitute to meet him at a Washington hotel in mid-February, the official said.
The official spoke to The Associated Press condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the investigation. |
Police urged to be people-friendly: Call for steps against domestic violence
Staff Reporter
Adviser Rashida K Choudhury said though most of the women in the country are victims of domestic violence, they do not protest because of possible future insecurity.
She said this at a seminar on 'The Role of Police in Preventing Domestic Violence' at Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel in the city yesterday.
The programme organised by the Ministry of Home Affairs was attended by Primary and Mass Education Adviser Rashida K Choudhury, Home Secretary Abdul Karim, Women and Children Affairs Secretary Begum Rokeya Sultana, IGP Nur Mohammad, AIGP NBK Tripura, UNFPA representative Arthur Erken and Barrister Sara Hossain. |
Businessman shot dead
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Internet Edition. March 12, 2008, Updated: Bangladesh Time 12:00 AM 
