Sec 144 withdrawn as tension eases in Khagrachhari
February 28, 2010
The Khagrachhari administration on Sunday withdrew the section 144 imposed on February 23 in the town after violence erupted between indigenous people and Bangalee settlers.
M Abdullah, deputy commissioner of Khagrachhari, told The Daily Star that he had withdrawn the section 144 around 12noon as a calm and quiet situation has been prevailing in the hilly district town, our Khagrachhari correspondent reports.
Iqbal sent to jail on surrender
February 28, 2010
A Dhaka court on Sunday sent former Awami League lawmaker HBM Iqbal to jail after he surrendered to the court to seek bail in a corruption case.
Iqbal was earlier sentenced to 13 years in jail in the case.
Judge AFM Aminul Islam of the Special Judge Court-1 passed the order.
Bangladesh 228 all out in 45.4 overs
February 28, 2010
A magnificent century from Tamim Iqbal helped Bangladesh to reach 228 all out in 45.4 overs against England in the first ODI at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium on Sunday.
Tamim was bowled by Stuart Broad. He smashed 13 fours and three sixes in his 120-ball knock. The left-hander departed shortly after Mashrafe Bin Mortaza’s comeback lasted just one run before he was adjudged lbw off spinner Graeme Swann, who finished with 3-32.
5 JeM suspects arrested in Dhaka
February 28, 2010
Rapid Action Battalion have arrested five suspected members of Pakistan-based militant outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed, in Dhaka, RAB officials said on Sunday.
Paban ‘planned’ blasts at Khaleda’s office
February 28, 2010
Police are on the hunt for the son of BNP secretary general Khandaker Delwar Hossain, Abdul Hamid Paban, who they say planned the recent blasts in front of the BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office for his own ends.
An associate of Paban’s, Golam Sabbir Shovon, who was detained and questioned Saturday, told police of the ‘plot’, Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner AKM Shahidul Haque told a press conference.
900 to be charged for Pilkhana killings: IO
February 24, 2010
The CID’s probe into the Pilkhana killings during the BDR mutiny has neared completion and charges will be pressed “soon”, the investigation officer said on Wednesday.
Hills remain tense
February 22, 2010
Anger continued to brew in the remote Baghaihat area over Saturday’s killing of indigenous people and arson attacks on their houses, with the indigenous people holding the army responsible for the incidents.
The dislodged indigenous people also blamed Baghaichhari Upazila Nirbahi Officer SM Humayun Kabir for the incidents and attacked him yesterday when he was returning from the spot along with the state minister for CHT affairs.
Man arrested for threatening Taposh
February 22, 2010
Rapid Action Battalion members arrested a man from Khulshi residential area in Chittagong city early Monday on charge of threatening Awami League lawmaker Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh over cell phone.
The arrestee was identified as Sohel Rana, 23, son of Md Amir Hossain of Rasulpur village in Zokiganj upazila of Sylhet.
JS probe into Rangamati killings, arson demanded
February 22, 2010
Several thousand indigenous people brought out a procession protesting Saturday’s killing of their community people and arson attacks on their houses in the remote Baghaihat area of Rangamati and demanding parliamentary inquiry into the incidents.
Cabinet okays draft of climate fund act
February 22, 2010
The cabinet on Monday approved in principle the draft of Climate Change Trust Fund Act, 2010 and the drafts of two others laws.
The drafts were approved at a regular cabinet meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair at the cabinet division of Bangladesh Secretariat.