Project taken to renovate traffic lights in Ctg
November 20, 2008
The Chittagong City Corporation has undertaken a Tk 41 lakh project to renovate the automatic traffic lights at 43 busy intersections aiming to bring order in vehicular movement on city streets. Mahfuzul Hoque, acting superintendent engineer (electricity) of the city corporation, said they had undertaken the project as an interim measure following repeated requests from the Chittagong Metropolitan Police.
4-tier security for polling stations
November 20, 2008
Strict implementation of laws imperative to combat drugs-terrorism: IGP
November 19, 2008
Inspector General of Police (IGP) Nur Mohammad on Tuesday said proper and strict implementation of the country’s existing laws is enough in effectively combating drugs and terrors.
“There is no need to make new law in eliminating drugs and terrorism from the country. It’ll be possible through the existing laws of the state if proper and strict implementation is ensured,” said Nur Mohammad, who heads the country’s biggest law-enforcement agency, the police.
He made the observations to reporters after attending a RAB-organized narcotics-destruction programme at the RAB-1 office in the morning.
The law-enforcing agencies incinerated huge quantities of narcotics worth over Tk 2 crore that were seized in the last 2-3 months under their drives against the wide-spread menace of drugs.
Among the drugs items, the elite force destroyed 42,488 bottles and 252.8 liters of banned Indian cough-syrup ‘phensidyl’, around 300 kgs of cannabis, over 1.5 lakh Yaba tablets that eat up high-society youngsters.
On a query, the IGP said they would take special initiatives against terrorists, if necessary, ahead of the general election and hoped that the upcoming parliamentary polls would be held in free, fair and terrorism-free environment.
“Some unexpected incidents occurred in recent times, but it’s isolated, not alarming,” he said.
Speaking as chief guest at the function, the police boss said everybody would have to work unitedly in fighting out drugs from the country as the law- enforcers could not do it alone.
Terming the country’s legal system time-consuming, Nur Mohammad said due to loopholes in legal system, many of the listed drug traders and criminals came out from jail on bail.
“Now the time has come to rethink about the problem,” said the IGP, who recently earned ire of higher authorities for his comments about delays in proclamation of a proposed police ordinance.
Rapid Action Battalion Director General Hasan Mahmud Khandokar said RAB would take special security measures ahead of the polls so that criminals could not disrupt the environment of election.
“We’ll inform people of the country about it through media at a suitable time,” he said.
Earlier, people of different professions, including film-star Razzak and singer Fahmida Nabi, spoke on the occasion.
Source: The Bangladesh Today
DSE continues with poor turnover
November 18, 2008
The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) continued to register a poor turnover until Monday, causing a slight fall in the benchmark index for the second consecutive day. The day’s total turnover was recorded at about Tk 1.40 billion on the day, marking a slight rise from the 9-month low at Tk 1.36 billion registered Sunday.
Purchase Committee meeting on Bibiyana project deferred
November 17, 2008
A meeting of the Advisors Committee on Public Purchase that was convened to take decision on awarding the 450-MW Bibiyana Power Plant contract to a Malaysia-based company was Sunday deferred by three days. According to official sources, the committee, known as Cabinet Purchase Committee, will now sit on November 19.
BNP decision to join polls depends on govt accepting their demands
November 16, 2008
BNP secretary general Khandaker Delwar Hossain said yesterday that BNP will take the decision about taking part in the parliamentary elections as soon as the government accepts their demands.
Green groups protest at toxic ship breaking at Chittagong port
November 15, 2008
Green groups Green Voice and Sheba jointly formed a human chain in Dhaka on Friday, protesting at local and international move to break a toxic ship at the Chittagong port.
Political scenario unchanged at Sylhet-1, 4 even after delimitation
November 12, 2008
The political scenario remains unchanged at Sylhet-1 and 4 constituencies, even after delimitation because there has emerged no third party to challenge BNP and Awami League (AL), sources said. Previously Sylhet-1 constituency was consisted of sadar and Companiganj upzillas. As per new delimitation, Companiganj upazilla has been shifted to Sylhet-4. Now Sylhet-1 encompasses city corporation and sadar upazilla while Sylhet-4 comprises Companiganj, Goainghat and Jaintapur upazillas.
Bus operators deny getting revised BRTA fare chart
November 11, 2008
The operators of long-route buses have denied receiving any revised fare chart from the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority and continued charging fare from the passengers according to the previous chart.
Saiful Islam, additional secretary general of Bangladesh Sarak Paribahan Malik Samity, said,
Hunger strike by unsuccessful BCS candidates for 9th day
November 10, 2008