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Chittagong arms haul case: Former NSI chiefs on 3-day remand
Staff Reporter
The two former chiefs of the National Security Intelligence (NSI), arrested on Saturday in connection with the much talked about 10-truck arms haul case in Chittagong were given three-day police remand when produced before the Chittagong Metropolitan Magistrate Court yesterday.
Major General (retired) Rezzaqul Haider Chowdhury and Brigadier General (retired) M Abdur Rahim, former director generals of NSI, were taken into custody from their residences in Dhaka in the early hours of Saturday and later taken to Chittagong the same day.  |
Row over expenses crisis: Commons Speaker urged to resign BBC Online
Nick Clegg has become the first party leader to call for the Commons speaker to resign in the midst of the expenses crisis gripping Parliament.
The Lib Dem leader said Michael Martin should make way as he was not the "right man" to lead much-needed reform.
But senior Labour MP Sir Stuart Bell said he expected the Speaker to say on Monday that he will stay in the post until the next general election.
This came as the Sunday Telegraph published more details of expenses.
The MPs highlighted in the newspaper's report, including former Conservative chief whip David Maclean and Labour whip Fraser Kemp, have defended their actions. |
Congress prepares to form govt AFP, New Delhi
India's Congress Party began the task of forming a government Sunday after steering its ruling alliance to a second term in office with a resounding win over its Hindu nationalist rivals.
Senior alliance leaders met to formulate strategy and to choose which parties it might approach about securing a parliamentary majority, having fallen just short of the required 272 seats.
"We had some pre-poll allies who will definitely stay with us, and the party will discuss whether it needs any post-poll ally," said senior Congress leader Rajiv Shukla. |
Prabhakaran's fate remains a mystery: Lankan Tamils concede defeat, offer to lay down arms Reuters, Colombo
The Tamil Tigers conceded defeat in Sri Lanka's 25-year civil war on Sunday, after launching waves of suicide attacks to repel a final assault by troops determined to annihilate them.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa had declared victory over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) the day before, even as combat raged in the island's northeast and the military said it was freeing the last of thousands of trapped civilians.
By midday Sunday the military said troops had freed all the civilians being held by the LTTE inside an area that was less than a single square km (0. |
Civic amenity crisis at Dahagram-Angorpota enclaves: 20,000 residents captive at night
Rafiqul Islam Azad
Around 20,000 residents of Dahagram-Angarpota, an enclave measuring about 50 sq-km on Indo-Bangladesh border, are yet to get complete sovereignty even after 38 years of independence of the country as they have no free access to move with the mainland round the clock.
"We are free by day and entrapped at night," said Yusuf Ali, a local Rickshaw Workers leader.
He said though the country got independence in 1971, the residents of Dahagram-Angarpota enclave got a limited independence for movement to and from with the mainland from June 26, 1992 after signing Tin Bigha Corridor agreement with India. |
AL falsely implicated, media bribed: Ashraful on Peelkhana probe report
Staff Reporter
LGRD Minister and Awami League (AL) spokesman Syed Ashraful Islam yesterday said that the reports submitted so far in connection with the BDR mutiny on February 25-26 was incomplete and motivated.
"The report has been prepared intentionally to implicate the AL leaders with this mutiny by hiding the facts and at least Tk 15 crore has been allocated to some media persons to make it credible before people," he alleged.
He made these comments while addressing a discussion meeting organised by the Bangladesh Awami Jubo League at the Engineers' Institution in the capital to mark Sheikh Hasina's homecoming day. |
Govt to simplify taxation procedure to bag more revenue
Staff Reporter
Finance Minister AMA Muhit yesterday said that he would take necessary steps to simplify the taxation procedure to encourage people of paying tax.
"We will have to simplify the procedure to bag taxes at least from the people having Tax Identification Number," he told a pre-budget discussion at
Jatiya Press Club organized by the Economic Reporters Forum.
ERF president Nazmul Ahsan presided over the meeting which was addressed by former finance adviser Dr Mirza Azizul Islam, president of International Chamber of Commerce, Bangladesh Mahbubur Rahman and Association of Bankers Bangladesh (ABB) president K Mahmud Sattar. |
Amini, 2 others sent to jail
Court Correspondent
A court of Dhaka yesterday rejected bail petitions submitted on behalf of three accused including Mufti Fazlul Haque Amini in a case filed for attacking a procession of Sramik League on 1st May, this year.
Other accused are Moulana Md Kamal Uddin Saleh and Moulana Hafez Md Badrul Islam. Metropolitan Tofail S Hasan rejected the bail petitions.
The accused allegedly with about two hundred terrorists attacked the procession with hockey stick, short-gun, cycle chain and explosive substances, which led to injuries of about 25 persons of the workers procession. |
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Internet Edition. May 18, 2009, Updated: Bangladesh Time 12:00 AM 
