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Govt to reduce fuel oil price soon
Staff Reporter
The government has decided to reduce fuel oil price within a month as the downtrend in the international market continues, special assistant to the Chief Adviser Dr M Tamim told newsmen yesterday.
"I had meeting with the Finance and Planning adviser today. He has agreed to reduce the fuel oil price,' Tamim said.
The Adviser said the government will reduce fuel oil price provided that common people get the benefit of the tariff slash like reduction of public transport cost.
"Price of fuel oil will be reviewed in every three months.  |
Election schedule by early Nov: CEC: AL to have associate organisations, urges emergency lifting, deferment of UZ polls
Staff Reporter
Awami League (AL) during the talks with the Election Commission (EC) yesterday demanded complete lifting of state of the emergency, deferment of the upazila polls, ensuring neutral observers for the national polls, renouncement of the provision of canceling candidature for mistake after finalisation the nominations.
The AL leaders also strongly called for allowing the party to retain its front organisations as 'associate organisations'
Responding the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) ATM Shamsul Huda opined that associate organisations can be retained but can not be mentioned in party constitution". |
Dhaka-Yangon agree to raise two-way trade
Staff Reporter
Speakers at a discussion said yesterday that the complexity of visa procedure, lack of airline connectivity, direct road linkage and costal shipping link and tough banking system are the main barriers to enhance bilateral trade between the two bordering countries-Bangladesh and Myanmar.
They highlighted these obstacled during meeting with the visiting Myanmar delegation at Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industries (FBCCI) auditorium. |
CCC Mayor Mohiuddin freed on bail
UNB, Dhaka
Chittagong City Corporation Mayor ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury was Wednesday freed from the prison cell of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) after long detention amid the ongoing anti-graft drive.
DIG (prisons) Major Shamsul Haider Siddiqui told UNB that the Mayor of the port city was released at 3:25 pm as he secured bail from the higher court in all the cases against him, including corruption.
Arrested on March 7 last year, Mayor Mohiuddin, also an Awami League leader, presently faces a total of 15 cases.
Earlier police had filed 22 cases. |
Bijoya Dashami today
Staff Reporter
The largest religious festival of Bengali Hindus, Durga Puja, will end today with immersion of Durga idols all over the country including the capital.
The Hindus will also celebrate Bijoya Dashami in the morning according to the lunar calendar.
"All Durga idols from the puja mandaps of the capital will be brought together in Palashi at 3:00pm. A colourful procession will parade through different areas of the city," said Jayanta Sen Dipu, president of Mohanagar Sharbojoneen Puja Committee. |
White House contenders trade barbs in 2nd debate: Post-debate polling favours Obama over McCain
AP, Washington
John McCain dismissively called rival Barack Obama "that one," Obama mocked McCain's "Straight Talk Express," and both left the debate stage to return to the campaign trail Wednesday.
CNN's national poll of debate watchers found that 54 percent said Obama did the best job, compared to 30 percent who said McCain performed better. While 51 percent of those polled said they had a favorable opinion of McCain, unchanged from before the debate started, 64 percent said they had a favorable opinion of Obama, up 4 percentage points from before the debate. |
General Maung meets Army Chief
UNB, Dhaka
Visiting Vice-Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council of Myanmar Vice-senior General Maung Aye paid a courtesy call on Army Chief General Moeen U Ahmed at the Army Headquarters Wednesday.
"They exchanged greetings and discussed matters of bilateral interest," said an ISPR release.
General Maung Aye was apprised of different activities of Bangladesh Army in a presentation.
The Army Chief, Principal Staff Officers of Army Headquarters and the entourage of Myanmar General were present at the briefing. |
Shushuk Mela begins today
Staff Reporter
The first ever 'Shushuk Mela,' an interactive exhibition for introducing the whales & dolphins of Bangladesh, will be inaugurated at the Bangladesh Shishu Academy at 5:30pm today.
Main aim of the exhibition will be to introduce the cetacean diversity and enlighten the ongoing efforts for the conservation of whales and dolphins in Bangladesh. The four-day exhibition will be highlighted by photographs, film shows, games and models of whales and dolphins.
Bangladesh Cetacean Diversity Project (BCDP) of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) will organise the show. |
Three win Nobel prize for Chemistry
AP, Stockholm
Two Americans and a U.S.-based Japanese scientist won the Nobel Prize in chemistry yesterday for their discovery and development of a protein that literally illuminates key processes such as the spread of cancer inside living organisms. Japan's Osamu Shimomura and Americans Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien shared the prize for their work on green fluorescent protein, or GFP, which was first found in a jellyfish, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.
It's widely used to track such processes as the development of brain cells, the growth of bacteria or development of disease. |
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Internet Edition. October 9, 2008, Updated: Bangladesh Time 12:00 AM 
