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JS standing committee on water ministry decides: High-powered all-party team to visit Tipaimukh
Staff Reporter
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Water Resources Ministry yesterday decided to send a team to India to visit the much-talked-about construction of Tipaimukh Dam on the river barak in Bangladesh's upstream.
"An all-party parliamentary team, headed by the chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on Water Resources Ministry, will go to India to witness the Tipaimukh project and conduct spot assessment of its possible impacts on Bangladesh," Abdur Razzaq, the committee chairman, told reporters after a meeting at the parliament building.  |
BAF training aircraft crashes in Karnaphuli: Pilot escapes by parachute
Staff Reporter
A training aircraft of Bangladesh Air Force crashed on the Karnaphuli River channel at Patanga near the outer anchorage of Chittagong port yesterday.
The lone pilot of the aircraft, Flight Lieutenant Abdullah-A-Mamun, managed to escape by parachute after the aircraft crashed,an ISPR press release said.
The divers of Bangladesh Navy with the help of some locals rescued the pilot Flight Lieutenant Mamun from the river channel and rushed him to nearby Naval Hospital.
The pilot is out of danger, it added.
Shortly after takeoff, the FT-6 type aircraft developed technical glitch. |
Gulshan Lake grabbing continues
Staff Reporter
Vested quarters are again trying to grab parts of the Gulshan Lake to build new residential plots inside illegally filling with soil.
The lake is being filled at the sides of roads No 21, 22, 23, 24, 28, 55, 105, 118 and 136. Recently, hundreds of trucks have been engaged to carry soil to different parts of the lake every night and in some cases even in daylight, alleged the Gulshan Society.
Against earlier such illegal acts, the Court had issued 'Rule absolute' several times prohibiting lake grabbing, which would impact on the lake and environment of the area adversely. |
EC to request Speaker to take action against SQC: He can’t remain MP for giving 'untrue’ information: Shakhawat
UNB, Dhaka
The Election Commission decided to write to the Speaker for taking legal action against BNP MP Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury for furnishing "untrue" information in his affidavit to the commission for his candidacy-considered an offence of lying under oath that may forfeit his parliament membership.
Talking to reporters yesterday at the Election Commission Secretariat, Election Commissioner Brig Gen (retd) M Sakhawat Hossain said the EC will send letter to the parliament secretariat within a couple of days drawing attention of the speaker in this regard. |
Tipaimukh dam: Farm output to fall, spelling disaster for Sylhet region
bdnews24.com, Dhaka
Farm output will fall and poverty will rise, spelling 'disaster' for the Sylhet region if India's proposed Tipaimukh dam and Fulertal barrage are built, maintain experts.
"The dam will cause water flow to slow down while the barrage will ensure their full control of water resources," former director general and chief engineer of Water Resources Planning Organisation,engineer Inamul Haque told bdnews24.com Thursday.
"The cultivation of early variety of boro in the northeast would be hampered," he said. |
Speakers at roundtable of ICT Journalist Forum: Tax on camera mobile should be withdrawn
Business Report
Speakers at a roundtable feared that the duties imposed on computer accessories would create obstacles on the way of building Digital Bangladesh.
Experts in the field of information and communication technology (ICT) attending the roundtable, expressed that the government, committed towards a digital Bangladesh, should revise the taxation in its first annual budget on products essential for the industry to expand.
Bangladesh ICT Journalist Forum (BIJF) organised the post-budget roundtable at the BCS conference room on Monday. |
The City We Live In: Students join classes and Suffer from garbage stink
Mahbubur Rahman Khan
The whimsical waste management system of Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) upsets the academic atmospherer of Siddeshwari Girls High School. Students of one of the age-old schools of the city attends classes squeezing their noses as the air of the Bailey Road gets heavy with the stink from the garbage disposed off in front of the school openly.
The sideways have become unusable as DCC dumps garbage on the road regularly. Girls enter into the school walking in zigzag course.
After visiting the place tokais have been seen searching for saleable materials in the pile of garbage. |
Bid to ease city’s traffic jam: Elevated expressway planned
Rafiqul Islam Azad
The government plans to construct an elevated expressway in the capital to reduce traffic congestion.
This is one of the projects, which will be implemented under the initiative of Public Private Partnership (PPP), according to sources in the Cabinet Division.
The sources said the project is likely to be placed at the meeting of Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs scheduled to be held today. This will be first project under the PPP initiative if the Cabinet Committee approves it.
The elevated expressway project will cost Tk 8,364 crore (approximately). |
Commentary: We can’t allow black money to go outside the country
Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith in his budget speech has given another three years to whiten black money not only attracting criticism from certain quarters but also describing his own decision unethical. This was a prime demand of the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry.
Leaders of the BFCCI who voiced the demand for about a year at a post-budget press conference however refrained from responding to question as to whether the decision was ethical or not.
In his budget speech the Finance Minister said, “There are many potential sectors of our economy where investments could carry forward our efforts for change. |
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Internet Edition. June 17, 2009, Updated: Bangladesh Time 12:00 AM 
