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Tk 29,000cr bigger ADP planned: NEC meets today; Stress on power and agri sector
Staff Reporter
The government is going to expand its next Annual Development Programme (ADP) to near about Tk 29000 crore, ignoring experts' suggestion to limit the development budget within it's capacity to implement.
"To create employment opportunities and maintain growth prospects we need a bigger development plan," Planning Minister AK Khandaker said at a seminar disagreeing with some economists suggestion to contain the ADP to its present fiscal's size of Tk 26000 crore.  |
Climate change impacts-I: Coastal fishermen bear brunt of cyclonic storm, tidal surge
Rafiqul Islam Azad
'It was about 8.30pm. The devastating Sidr was approaching the coatal land from the Bay of Bengal. Our courtyard was submerged by water brought by tidal surge. I, along with my pregnant wife Hanufa Begum, 21, and daughter Nargis, 5, started moving to a local cyclone centre for taking shelter. Hardly we moved about 1000 yards when we were washed away by a strong surge about 30fts high and in no time we found ourselves struck on a big rain tree. |
Dr Atiur made BB Governor
UNB, Dhaka
Eminent economist and development researcher Dr Atiur Rahman has been appointed as Governor of Bangladesh Bank, said an official announcement yesterday. The four-year contractual appointment comes into effect from May 1, said the Establishment Ministry order. The appointment is subjected to scrap his relations with all other institutions and organizations.
Dr Atiur, also the chairman of development research organization, Unnayan Shamunnay, would join Bangladesh Bank on May 3 (Sunday).
He replaces incumbent Governor Dr Salehuddin Ahmed, who would complete his 4-year tenure today. |
Jamaat link in Ctg street violence detected
Chittagong Bureau
A section of the anti-liberation Jamaat-e-Islami leaders and workers here in the port city may have to shoulder the total responsibility of the street violence and indiscriminate destruction of vehicles in the name of demonstration on Monday last.
Security people have by now identified the masterminds and the designers of the unruly demonstration reportedly under the banners of Bangladesh Sramik Kallayan Federation and auto-rickshaw drivers and workers union.
The unruly auto-rickshaw drivers and workers taken into custody from the spot had reportedly told the inside story of the violent demonstration to the police. |
Bangladesh still free from Swine flu: Screening begins at ZIA
Staff Reporter
Health and Family welfare Minister Dr AFM Ruhul Huq yesterday called upon the people to remain alert on highly contagious Swine Flu, but not to panic about it, as Bangladesh is still free from this virus.
The minister made this remark to reporters after holding a eting on this scourge at his office in the secretariat.
Urging the people to remain prepared with medicine and logistics support to face the Flu, he said, "We will take all kinds of necessary steps against the disease, though Bangladesh is not directly threatened by it. |
Nuclear power plant: ICT ministry awaits PMO nod to sign deal with Russia UNB, Dhaka
Science and ICT Ministry is now waiting for the go-ahead from the Prime Minister's Office to sign two agreements with Russia to advance with the conceived nuclear power-plant projects.
As a follow-up move to the recent talks with a Russian expert team, the Science and ICT Ministry sent drafts of two proposed agreements to the PMO in the middle of the current month. But the drafts are yet to be back.
"We've been waiting to receive a positive nod from the PMO. We sought a policy concurrence since this is a highly policy matter," a top official of the ICT ministry told UNB. |
From the Foreign Press: Clinton's Mideast pirouette Roger Cohen
WASHINGTON: The sparring between the United States and Israel has begun, and that's a good thing. Israel's interests are not served by an uncritical American administration. The Jewish state emerged less secure and less loved from Washington's post-9/11 Israel-can-do-no-wrong policy.
The criticism of the centre-right government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has come from an unlikely source: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. She's transitioned with aplomb from the calculation of her interests that she made as a senator from New York to a cool assessment of U. |
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Internet Edition. April 30, 2009, Updated: Bangladesh Time 12:00 AM 
