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Tipai Dam site visit may be delayed: No communication from India Staff Reporter
The all-party parliamentary team's visit to Tipaimukh dam site in India is likely to be delayed as it is yet to get any letter from the Foreign Ministry.
"The all-party parliamentary delegation cannot visit the Tipaimukh dam site by July 15 even after obtaining visas and tickets, " Ramesh Chandra Sen, Water Resources Minister yesterday told journalists at his secretariat office. He could not give any specific date when the parliamentary team would visit the proposed dam site.  |
19 killed, 27 injured in road accidents Agency
Nineteen people were killed and 27 others injured in separate road accidents in Trishal, Chittagong and Natore on Monday.
Thirteen day-labourers, including three women, were killed as a cement-laden truck plunged into a ditch on Dhaka-Mymensigh highway at Bagan in Trishal upazila early on Monday.
Police said the Sherpur-bound truck from Dhaka skidded off the highway and fell into the roadside ditch at about 5am as its driver lost control over the steering.
Thirteen people, who were traveling by the truck, died on the spot as the sacks of cement, carrying by the truck, fell on them. |
Alamgir acquitted in graft case
Staff Reporter
The High Court yesterday exonerated front ranking Awami League leader Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir MP from conviction in a graft case in which he was sentenced to 13 years imprisonment.
The same ruling of the High Court also paved way for acquittal of 54 others, who are also accused of concealing assets in their wealth statements to the Anticorruption Commission (ACC).
"The ACC notice which was issued on February 18, 2007, to 55 people, including Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir, seeking assets accounts was illegal," Alamgir's lawyer Barrister Rafiqul Huq told reporters after the verdict. |
Ex-BARVIDA president tells New Nation: New taxation policy to hit reconditioned car import
Syful Islam
Former president of Bangladesh Reconditioned Vehicles Importers & Dealers Association (BARVIDA) Abdul Haque yesterday said that the improper policy shifting by the government as regards import of reconditioned vehicles will heavily damage the sector which is paying Tk 2000 crore yearly to the exchequer as revenue.
Talking to The New Nation Abdul Haque, who is also Managing Director of Haq's Bay Automobiles Limited, said the new taxation policy will reduce import by 50 per cent against last fiscal's total import of 30,000 reconditioned vehicles. |
AL council on July 24 UNB, Dhaka
After the lapse of seven years, the ruling Awami League holds its council on July 24 mainly to adopt the party's amended manifesto and constitution to comply with the reformed Representation of People Order (RPO) by the deadline set by the Election Commission for the politicos.
Their preparation for having an updated party law-book is all but complete, in the meantime, as the AL presidium in a meeting on Monday evening with Prime Minister and party chief Sheikh Hasina in the chair adopted the draft of the amended manifesto and constitution prepared by a subcommittee. |
President for upgrading Bhairab into district
UNB, Bhairab
President Zillur Rahman on Monday said he would keep on his all-out efforts to upgrade Bhairab into a district to fulfill the long-cherished demand of the local people.
"I promise you, I'll carry on my best efforts to upgrade Bhairab into a district," he told a civic reception accorded to him on the premises of Bhairab Haji Asmat College.
His assurance came as local people in their 'Address of Honour', given to the President, put forward their nine-point demand for the development of Bhairab. |
From the Foreign Press: Beyond the Veil Western leaders see clothing as a symbol. But Muslim women face far bigger challenges Carla Power
In modern politics, there are few trustier weapons than Muslim women's clothes. The Saudis and the mullahs in Iran have used them for decades, passing laws on women's head coverings to underscore male rulers' piety and power. George W. Bush knew the symbolic potency of the veil, too, citing the discrimination of American 'women of cover' during post 9/11 tensions. Now two Presidents, Nicolas Sarkozy and Barack Obama, have taken up the veil, framing it as a topic in radically different ways. Sarkozy used Muslim dress as a nationalistic prop, seeing it as a threat to France's eternal values. |
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Internet Edition. July 14, 2009, Updated: Bangladesh Time 12:00 AM 
