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JS Standing body waited in suspense: Sircar, Siddiqui, Delwar did not turn up yesterday
Staff Reporter
Former speaker Barrister Jamiruddin Sircar, former deputy speaker Akhter Hamid Siddiqui and former chief whip Khondoker Delwar Hossain yesterday did not appear before the Parliamentary Probe Committee.
Earlier, the probe committee summoned them to appear before it.
The probe committee in its yesterday's meeting charged them for breaching the privilege of Parliament for their failure to attend the meeting.
Committee Chairman Advocate Fazle Rabbi Mian told reporters that the committee decided to submit a report before the House after finalising its recommendations for taking further action against them.  |
Michael Jackson’s death unsolved after autopsy
Reuters, Los Angeles
Doctors conducted an autopsy on the body of Michael Jackson on Friday but could not immediately determine what killed the "King of Pop," amid reports he had been injected with a narcotic painkiller shortly before collapsing.
Jackson was in full cardiac arrest when paramedics arrived at his rented mansion in the Holmby Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles on Thursday afternoon, with his personal physician trying desperately to revive him.
The 50-year-old pop superstar was rushed to nearby UCLA Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead without regaining consciousness. |
Govt urged to save Gulshan Lake
Staff Reporter
Residents of Gulshan yesterday urged the government to take necessary measures to save the Gulshan lake halting filling by land grabbers.
Terming the protection of lakes as government's responsibility, they made an appeal to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to protect the Gulshan lake, the only natural lake of the city, stopping earth filling as the way the Dhanmondi lake was saved.
Their demand came at a press conference organised by Gulshan Society in the city on the day. |
Hasina served poisonous food in prison: Sajeda
UNB, Dhaka
Deputy Leader of the House in Parliament Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury yesterday alleged that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, while in incarceration at sub-jail during military-backed caretaker regime, used to be served food laced with poison.
She came up with the macabre disclosure while speaking at a programme marking the 84th birth anniversary of slain national leader AHM Quamruzzaman.
"Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina became sick in prison on the parliament prescient as she was provided with poison-mixed foods," Sajeda, also a senior presidium member of the ruling Awami League, told the function organized by 'Bangabandhu O Jatiya Char Neta Parishad' at the Supreme Court Bar Association auditorium. |
Triple murder at Karwan Bazar: Conflict over extortion: None held so far
Mamunur Rashid
Police suspected that the killings of three persons on Friday' at Karwan Bazar in the capital might have been due to conflicts over business and domination of the market.
Unidentified gunmen on Friday shot and killed Faruq Molla and Mohammed Ashraf Mia, Nuruddin Sarker Jewel bodyguard of Faruq, had no bullet wounds in his person and doctors believe that he might have died of a heart attack. Awami League leader, fruit trader and homeopathic doctor, Abdur Rahim was also shot. |
Pvt varsities urged to maintain quality of education: APUB opposes proposed Pvt University Act
DU Correspondent
Leaders of the 'Association of Private Universities of Bangladesh' (APUB) yesterday urged the government to stop formulating newly proposed Private University Act-2009 so that the path of higher education is not blocked.
This demand came from a roundtable on "Proposed Private University Act-2009" organised by APUB at the National Press Club.
APUB leaders said, this Act, if passed, many students would be denied the opportunity of higher education. It is clearly a threat to the autonomy of universities that would seriously hamper the education system, they said. |
US House passes historic climate change bill AFP, Washington
The US House of Representatives has narrowly passed historic legislation to limit pollution blamed for global warming, handing President Barack Obama a major hard-fought victory.
By a 219-212 margin, lawmakers voted Friday for the first time in US history to limit heat-trapping carbon emissions and shift the US economy to cleaner energy in a move backers said will create jobs and restore Washington's shaky leadership on climate change ahead of global talks set for December. |
PDB for more rental plants to face loadshedding BSS, Dhaka
The state-run power-generating agency (PDB) has suggested installing more rental power plants, otherwise, it said, the country would experience 8 to 10 times loadshedding daily from next summer.
It also said if the government does not take any decision in fixing right price for per unit electricity then the financial structure of Power Development Board (PDB) would be broken that would eventually push the power sector into a deep crisis. |
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Internet Edition. June 28, 2009, Updated: Bangladesh Time 12:00 AM 
