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Tarique, Babar chargesheeted: Tk 21 crore bribe to cover up killer
Staff Reporter
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) pressed charges against former state minister Lutfozzaman Babar, BNP senior joint secretary general Tarique Rahman, Basundhara Group owner Ahmed Akbar Sobhan and five others in a Tk 21 crore bribery case with the Dhaka CMM's Court.
The chargesheet alleged that Babar demanded Tk 50 crore in bribe for dropping the names of Ahmed Akbar Sobhan alias Shah Alam, his two sons Safiyat Sobhan and Shahadat Sobhan and another director, Abu Sufian, from the list of the accused in the Basundhara director Humayun Kabir Sabbir murder case.  |
Govt in difficulty to keep economy, society harmonious
Pulack Ghatack
The Caretaker Government is in difficulties to project its income and expenditure limits for the next fiscal, as the budget formulating process is passing through a critical economic condition. To keep the economy and the society harmonious by increasing investment and employment generation side-by-side proper implementation of social safety net programmes is a challenge before the Government.
The budget deficit is a must to widen, as the Government will have to subsidise around Tk 16000 crore in various sectors with an enhanced allocations for agriculture, food and fuel in the next fiscal year, officials in the planning ministry hinted. |
Army has no desire to join dialogue: Media urged not to confuse public mind UNB, Dhaka
The Army Headquarters yesterday announced that it has no intention or desire whatsoever to participate in the planned dialogue between the caretaker government and political parties.
Also, the Army headquarters requested the mass media to refrain from making any imaginary and negative opinion out of their personal notion that might create confusion in the public minds about the Army.
An ISPR communiqué said the Army has been discharging its responsibility at the instructions of the government and extending cooperation towards holding fair elections under the incumbent caretaker government. |
Another Tagore’s lodge at Patisar
BSS, Dhaka
Patisar, otherwise a remote, silent and serene village of northern Naogaon district, is now humming with activities, especially of artisans and sculptors who are giving final touch to the statue of great poet Rabindranath and renovating the Nobel laureate's "Kuthibari" as the locals will organise a grand cultural fair there to celebrate the 147th birth anniversary of Tagore on May 8.
The poet came to this tiny green village, which is touched by the Nagar river, in the late winter of January in 1891 when he got the responsibility of Zamindari of Kaligram Pargana. |
Commentary: Myanmar must fully cooperate for international help The death toll in cyclone Nargis that struck Myanmar on Saturday has crossed 22,000 while over 41,000 others were listed missing, according to the state radio. Upto ten lakh people may have been rendered homeless by the cyclone that has flattened homes, wiped out villages and rice growing areas.
However, according to reports reaching Dhaka, the Myanmar government has not succeeded to act fast enough to allow foreign rescue and relief teams in for helping survivors with emergency water, food and medicine supplies and post-disaster rehabilitation. |
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Internet Edition. May 7, 2008, Updated: Bangladesh Time 12:00 AM 
