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Sonali, Janata, Agrani Banks

Friday, November 16th, 2007

100 pc shares to remain with governmentStaff Correspondent

100 percent ownership of state-owned Sonali Bank, Janata Bank and Agrani Bank will remain in the hands of the government even after the three financial institutions’ transformation into private limited company.


Sources said, the three public banks will start working under three public limited companies soon.
The banks have been handed over to three private limited companies in compliance with the ‘Vendors Agreement’ signed between the government and the companies on Thursday. (more…)

All efforts to contain price hike frustrated

Friday, November 16th, 2007

Staff CorrespondentDespite the chief adviser’s directive to monitor the prices of daily necessities, no measures are proving effective as the prices of essentials are increasing at a high rate across the country frustrating all the government and non-government efforts to contain prices.
Sufferings of the people belonging to the low and fixed income groups are mounting.

In the city kitchen markets, no retailers are following the rates fixed by the joint force and price-monitoring of daily commodities is now totally abandoned.
The prices of rice, edible oil, potato, pulses are on the rise while the prices of vegetables remain stable in the city’s markets. Prices of edible oil and onion have set up a new record, as edible oil is selling at Tk 95 per litre and onion at Tk 70 per kg. (more…)

Attempts underway to identify those involved in Aug 21 blast

Friday, November 16th, 2007

Shadiul Islam Rana
The intelligence personnel have started trying to identify and unearth the main patrons and persons involved in the August 21 grenade attack on the Awami League rally and why the then BNP-led four-party alliance government had distracted the people’s attention from the deadly incident.


According to the intelligence sources, investigation is now on to identify the main criminals remaining behind the scene. The intelligence agencies are investigating whether there was any neglect of duty or any political interference in the investigation into the grisly grenade attack on AL rally at Bangabandhu Avenue in Dhaka on August 21 in 2004 that left 24 people killed and many others maimed and injured. (more…)

Remand for Tarique rejected

Friday, November 16th, 2007

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Court Correspondent

Two different courts of Dhaka yesterday, rejected two petitions to put BNP’s Senior Joint Secretary General and former Premier Khaleda Zia’s elder son Tarique Rahman on remand for 7 days each. However, if necessary, I0 was permitted to quiz Tarique at the jail gate.In one case Tarique was accused of extortioning Taka one crore 32 lakh, while in another case he allegedly extorted Taka 5 crore. On March 27 this year, Khan Md Aftab Uddin, proprietor, Reza Construction filed the first case with Gulshan Thana accusing Gias Uddin Al-Mamun, Khairul Kabir Khokon, Obaidul Kader, Kamruzzaman, Hablu, Mahbub and Mota Tareque. In the case, Mamun made confessional statement and on April 21, (more…)

Over 700 killed as cyclone wreaks havoc

Friday, November 16th, 2007

bangladesh-newspaper-online.jpgDeath toll may cross 1,000; all communications, utility services snapped; thousands missing; houses, crops, trees destroyed; lakhs homeless
Syed Ashfaqul Haque and Julfikar Ali Manik
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Bangladesh dated with a nightmare as cyclone Sidr ripped through the southwestern coast late Thursday, killing over 700 people and demolishing houses, crops, vegetables and trees alike along its trail of devastation over an area of thousands of square kilometers.

Packing winds over 220km an hour, the fierce tropical storm roared across the shoreline after it hit landfall at the Khulna-Barisal coast at 7:30pm Thursday, cutting off all communications and utility services across the country.

β€œI’ve never seen anything like this in my 47 years life,” Khalilur Rahman, a government official in Patuakhali, told The Daily Star over telephone last night. β€œIt was a panic beyond description. People found no way but to keep on screaming as long as the cyclone ran rampage here.”

One of the fiercest cyclones in the history of the land, the Sidr rode

on wailing winds, driving rains and tidal surges to wreak havoc for over 14 hours before moving to Asam and Tripura through the Sylhet border, turning into a well-marked low yesterday. (more…)

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Saturday, November 10th, 2007

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