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Hasina in Thimpu: Trade deal with Bhutan to be signed today
UNB, Thimpu
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina arrived in Thimpu, the Bhutanese capital, on a four-day official visit on Friday.
This is Hasina's first visit to Bhutan and also her first bilateral visit to any South Asian country since she was elected as Prime Minister last December.
The Druk Air flight carrying the Prime Minister and her 28-member delegation touched the Paro international airport, some 54 kilometers from the capital city, at 1:15pm (local time).
On her arrival, Sheikh Hasina was received at the airport by Bhutanese Prime Minister Jigme Y Thinley and his spouse.  |
Khaleda at Batexpo Exposition: Govt fails to maintain law, order in RMG sector
Staff Reporter
Leader of the Opposition in Parliament and BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia yesterday said that both local and foreign investment came down at zero level and industries and trade and commerce are at a stake due to deterioration of law and order, extortion and tender manipulation by ruling party backed people.
Addressing the closing ceremony of the 20th BATEXPO, Bangladesh Apparel and Textile Exposition, organised by Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) at Pan Pacific Sonargaon hotel, she expressed her deep concern over the recent chaotic situation in garments sector. |
US-born Muslim in army custody: 13 die in Texas base shooting attack
BBC Online
A US major is under guard at a Texas military base as officials investigate what prompted a shooting attack that left 13 people dead.
Authorities named Major Nidal Malik Hasan, 39, as the man who opened fire on soldiers at Fort Hood on Thursday.
It is not clear what motivated him, but reports said the US-born Muslim was unhappy about being sent to Iraq or Afghanistan.
On Friday police raided his apartment to search for clues, CNN said.
Base commander Lt Gen Bob Cone said that one of the dead was a policeman and the others were soldiers. |
Maj Hasan was Iraq bound
Internet
Major Nidal Malik Hasan, 39, was born and raised in Virginia. His parents moved to the US from a Palestinian town near Jerusalem, according to his cousin.
After high school he joined the US Army, which put him through medical school. He became a psychiatrist, treating troops returning from combat in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Maj Hasan was described as a devout Muslim. A local imam told the Washington Post that he attended daily prayers at a mosque when he worked at the Walter Reed Army Medical Centre in Washington DC.
"We hardly ever got to discussing politics," Faizul Khan said. |
Plot to attack US embassy: Three LeT leaders taken on remand, police claim contradicted
Mamunur Rashid
The Lashkar-e-Taiyeba (LeT) sent a huge amount to Mufti Harun's accounts for carrying out attack on US Embassy in Dhaka, officials interrogating three LeT leaders arrested from Chittagong said.
He officials said, Pakistani national Abdur Rahman, who was detained in Pakistan this week for links with militancy, had transferred Tk 600,000 to the account of Mufti Harun's brother Faizullah for this attack.
Faizullah was to have carried out the attack on US Embassy on Dhaka. Last week he went around the US Embassy in Dhaka and he discussed over cell phone how to carry out the attack, the officials added. |
Winter vegetable prices start coming down Staff Reporter
Price of different varieties of winter vegetables started coming down with the smooth supply of that in the city's kitchen markets yesterday.
Most of the winter vegetables were selling between Tk 25 and Tk 30 per kg that was between Tk 35 and Tk 40 in the previous week.
Traders in the Kaptan Bazar said as the winter was approaching so the supply of the seasonal vegetables were gradually increasing, helping to coming down the prices.
They hoped that price of winter vegetables would be normal in the next couple of weeks. |
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Internet Edition. November 7, 2009, Updated: Bangladesh Time 12:00 AM 
