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CA addresses nation today: Guidelines on lifting emergency, ban on politics to be spelled out
Shahidul Islam
Chief Adviser Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed is expected to address the nation today evening spelling out the guidelines of the formal dialogue between his Government and the political parties.
In his speech, the Adviser will touch pressing issues, including lifting of the state of emergency, restriction on indoor politics outside the capital and important matters of politics, where a national consensus is necessary.
Disclosing this, after a meeting of four advisers, who were entrusted to prepare ground and work out guidelines of the formal dialogue, Communications Adviser Maj Gen (Retd) Ghulam Quader said, "The Chief Adviser's speech is ready….  |
Severe water crisis looms large over city: River-fed Sayedabad, Chandnighat water plants virtually useless
Sheikh Arif Bulbon
The Sayedabad and Chandnighat water treatment plants may become useless in the near future, if the pollution of water of Buriganga and Sitalakhya rivers goes on unabated, environmentalists and experts warned.
If the water pollution continues at the present rate, toxicity will go beyond the level of purification making the plants useless within 10 years and ultimately creating an acute crisis of water in the city, they added.
"Due to the pollution of the Buriganga and Sitalakhya, we have to use excessive chemical to treat the water in the plants, which creates bad smell in the supply water. |
SCBA announces two-hour boycott programme
UNB, Dhaka
The lawyers of the Supreme Court Sunday decided to boycott the court of the Appellate Division on Thursday for two hours in protest against its recent rulings that they think resulted in 'degradation of dignity of the highest judiciary and the rule of law'.
An emergency general meeting of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) held yesterday in its hall-room took the decision. The two-hour court boycott begins at 9am.
The meeting demanded announcement of the parliament election schedule immediately to hold free, fair and impartial polls. |
News Analysis : Women’s development: The uncalled for debate Mostafa Kamal Majumder
The debate on the national women development policy at one stage looked like coming to an end. But instead it rages on with expression of sentiments that would make the Bangladesh society look like being divided on the question of the development of the state of the fair sex. But a close look into the debate would prove the reverse.
When the religious groups sharply reacted to publication in February of the said policy document expressing their concern that it carried the seeds of violation of the law and rules on women's property inheritance rights, the government side promptly responded by asserting that nothing would be done against the ordains of the Quran and the Sunnah. |
Tax evasion: Mirza Abbas jailed for 8 years
UNB, Dhaka
A special court that deals with high- profile corruption cases Sunday sentenced detained former housing and works minister Mirza Abbas to 8 years' imprisonment for tax evasion and hiding information about his wealth.
Delivering the judgment, Judge Shahed Noor Uddin also fined him Tk 57 lakh. In default, he will have to suffer one year more in prison. Besides, the court ordered confiscation of his wealth worth Tk 2.20 crore to the state coffers. |
SCF for debarring war criminals from politics, polls
Staff Reporter
Sector Commanders' Forum (SCF) yesterday put up five-point demand to the Election Commission (EC) including debarring war criminals from politics and participating in the elections.
The demands were made while a six-member SCF delegation, led by Air Vice-Marshal (Retd) AK Khandakar, chairman of the organisation, met with the EC at the Commission secretariat.
During the hour-long meeting, the SCF delegation also demanded announcing all the individuals or organisations or parties who, directly or indirectly, opposed the war of liberation and committed killings, rapes, plunders, arsons and other war crimes during the period disqualified from the elections. |
Jenna Bush ties the knot
AFP, Texas
In a welcome break from two wars, terrorism and soaring oil prices, US President George W. Bush on Saturday celebrated his daughter Jenna's wedding on his Texas ranch.
Far from the pomp and publicity of past White House nuptials, Jenna, 26, wed fiance Henry Hager, 30, less than one year after he proposed at dawn atop Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park on Maine's coast.
"Today is my daughter Jenna's wedding day. This is a joyous occasion for our family, as we celebrate the happy life ahead of her and her husband Henry," the president said in his weekly radio address. |
Jalil's parole extended for two months
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For a current account balance go for earning, not borrowing alone
Last year's deficit in food due to flood and cyclone and as its resultant factor high rise in import has not only brought suffering for the people but also has cast a long shadow on the economy whose bite will have to be endured for quite a length of time.
Due to good harvest of Irri-Boro the immediate suffering of the middle and poorer section of the people has been alleviated. But the economic managers soon after the cooling down of the surge when sat for taking a balance sheet has now discovered that the current account situation is not in a good shape. |
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Internet Edition. May 12, 2008, Updated: Bangladesh Time 12:00 AM 
