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Khoka gets bail hours after arrest order: High Court stays graft case proceedings, ACC to appeal
Staff Reporter
The High Court yesterday granted temporary bail to DCC Mayor Sadek Hossain Khoka, just hours after a lower court issued warrant of arrest against him and stayed the proceedings of a graft case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).
The Dhaka Metropolitan Session's Judge Azizul Haque accepted the charge sheet of the case at 2 :00pm yesterday and issued the arrest warrant order against Khoka in a graft case.
Khoka appealed to the HC within two hours of the issuance of the warrant of arrest.  |
BB should fix single-digit deposit, lending rates for industrialisation: Phoenix Group chairman Deen Mohammad suggests
Shamim Jahangir
Noted businessmen and industrialist Deen Mohammad has suggested that the Bangladesh Bank should fix single-digit deposit and lending rates of interest by formulating a new rule for rapid industrialisation of the country.
Besides, the government should take necessary steps to increase generation of power to boost industrial productivity and economic growth.
In an interview with The New Nation yesterday, Deen Mohammad, who is also the Chairman of Phoenix Group, said that the industrial growth in the country was not taking place up to the expected level due to unusually higher lending rates charged by commercial banks. |
20 dead, 30 injured as buses collide in Comilla
Comilla Correspondent
At least twenty people were killed and another thirty injured yesterday when a bus fell into a roadside ditch following collision with another bus on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway at Illiotganj in Daudkandi upazila under Comilla district.
Witnesses and local police said a Dhaka-bound passenger bus of Starline Paribahan from Feni collided head on with the Comilla-bound passenger bus from Homna and plunged into the nearby ditch along with 40 passengers on board at about 9am.
The Comilla bound bus was also completely damaged. |
Suborna ties the knot again
Agencies
Popular TV actress Suborna Mustafa has wedded director Badrul Anam Soud.
"Only those close to the families of the bride and the bridegroom were present at the wedding," entertainment magazine Anandadhara assistant editor Arif Khan told bdnews24.com yesterday.
Arif acted as a 'wedding witness' in line with Muslim marriage traditions.
The news put to rest speculation about Suborna's second marriage, which went on for weeks. The ceremony played out in a low-key fashion at the Uttara home of Suborna's mother, starting at 11am Monday. |
Madonna denies affair, divorce rumours
Times Online
Madonna has moved to end growing media speculation over the state of her marriage - and a rumoured love quadrangle - by denying she has had an affair or plans to divorce Guy Ritchie.
The usually media-shy singer released a statement yesterday after the wife of the American baseball star Alex Rodriguez accused her of ruining their marriage.
In an interview with The New York Post, Cynthia Rodriguez's lawyer, Maurice Kutner, said she will file for divorce today and would cite her husband's relationship with Madonna in legal papers. |
City micro-entrepreneurship awards launched
BSS, Dhaka
Citi Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the Citigroup, for the fourth consecutive time yesterday launched the Citi Micro-entrepreneurship Awards (CMA) programme in Bangladesh to recognise and honour leadership, entrepreneurial skills and best practices of individual micro-entrepreneurs.
The goal of this award includes promotion of micro- enterprises, increasing awareness of their financial service needs and recognising success stories of entrepreneurs.
The programme was announced at a press conference held at Press Club. |
Doctor kills wife
Staff Reporter
A housewife was killed allegedly by her doctor husband following a family feud at Mirpur in the city Sunday afternoon.
The deceased was identified as Fahmida Akhter Nazma, 45, wife of Dr Tozammel Hossain of Orthopedic Hospital in the city. Police recovered the body of Nazma from the bathroom of their house at lane-5 in Mirpur-2 at about 11:00pm Sunday and sent it to Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy.
Victim's family members alleged that Tozammel and his associate Humayun Kabir tied up Nazma's hands, cut off tendons of her legs and poured hot water on her body so that none could identify her. |
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Internet Edition. July 8, 2008, Updated: Bangladesh Time 12:00 AM 
