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Sabotage ruled out: 1 dead, 50 injured in series of gas explosions in hotel, 3-member probe body formed
Mamunur Rashid
A hotel staff died and at least 50 other people, including several foreign boarders, have been injured in a series of gas pipeline explosions in a residential hotel at Naya Paltan in the city Sunday night.
A three-member probe committee headed by AIG Abdus Salam was formed yesterday to find out the cause of Sunday night's explosions at Hotel Orchard Plaza.
The deceased was identified as Ali Azam Ahmad, 45, security-in-charge of the hotel. He breathed his last at the City Hospital.
Source said at the time of the incident Ali Azam was at home at Shishir Das Lane.  |
Countrywide cleansing operation: 8,000 held till yesterday: IG cautions police about arresting innocent people Staff Reporter
More than 8,000 people were arrested by law enforcing agencies, including army during the last five days under the ongoing countrywide crackdown that began after midnight on May 28 last.
Inspector General of Police (IGP) Noor Mohammad yesterday told journalists at a briefing at Police Headquarters in the city yesterday that a total of 8,325 people were arrested on various charges and 33 firearms recovered so far since May 28 during the special drive to improve country's law and order.
In 24 hours ending 5:00pm yesterday, he said 1,439 people were arrested while 7 firearms recovered across the country. |
Signs of ice in Mars
BBC Online
Nasa's new robotic craft on Mars may be resting on a large patch of ice.
The latest images sent to Earth reveal tantalising glimpses of what looks like frozen water.
Scientists think the Phoenix Mars lander's descent engine may have blown away a layer of dirt, exposing the ice.
The craft's robotic arm reached out and touched the soil for the first time, leaving behind a striking, footprint-like impression, they said on Sunday.
The robotic arm was making a test run, just one week after the landing. |
Falu gets 5-yr for relief pilferage
UNB, Dhaka
A special court yesterday sentenced detained former BNP MP Mosaddek Ali Falu to five years' rigorous imprisonment for embezzlement of government relief materials.
Judge Tanjina Ismail also fined Falu Tk 5.35 lakh, in default, to suffer one year more in jail.
Falu, who faces a number of cases, was convicted first by the special court set up at the high-security parliament complex.
The court, however, acquitted co-accused Monirul Islam Sohel, Falu's associate, as the prosecution failed to prove the charges bright against him. |
Gen Moeen calls on President
UNB, Dhaka
Chief of Army Staff General Moeen U Ahmed called on President Professor Dr Iajuddin Ahmed at Bangabhaban yesterday.
During the meeting, the Army Chief apprised the President of the ongoing development activities undertaken by the Bangladesh Army.
President Iajuddin expressed his satisfaction at the progress in the preparation of voter lists by the Bangladesh Army and in implementing its different development works.
Emerging out of the meeting, General Moeen told the reporters that it was a part of his routine to inform the President, who also holds the charge of Defence Ministry, about the ongoing activities and development works undertaken by the Bangladesh Army. |
Protect Mehendiganj from erosion BSS, Dhaka Mehendiganj Rakkha Committee today called upon the caretaker government to take immediate steps to protect the people o
BSS, Dhaka
Country's industries sector registered 5.6 percent growth in the first seven months of the current fiscal 2007-08 compared to the same period in the previous fiscal.
During the first half of the fiscal the sector was affected by sluggish investment and low export oriented manufacturing activities, head of economic unit of Asian Development Bank (ADB) R K Khan told BSS on Monday.
"But in the second half it rebounded with an upturn in the export- oriented manufacturing and effective measures taken by the government to restore business confidence," he said. |
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Internet Edition. June 3, 2008, Updated: Bangladesh Time 12:00 AM 
