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Brief, Summary of more than 20 leading Bangla & English Dailies, Source : News Garden
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Monday, August 11, 2003
National
Prime Minister
Begum Khaleda Zia yesterday called upon local and foreign investors to
come forward to set up gas-based power plants and industries in the
country.
The ongoing process of the formation of the Gram Sarkar, the lowest tier
of local government, has generated a wave of enthusiasm among the
villagers throughout the country. More than 300 Gram Sarkar has been
formed in the first week of the 45-day programme. A total of 40,392
Gram Sarkar, one for each of the nine wards in a Union, will be formed
throughout the country.
Awami League General Secretary Abdul Jalil yesterday called upon all
democratic, progressive and pro-liberation forces to forge greater unity
to wage an ‘oust-government movement’ for installing a national government
of all the pro-independence parties.
The Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) yesterday came up with a six-point
proposal for forging a broad-based unity of the pro-independence political
parties.
A court in Feni yesterday handed down life imprisonment to former Awami
League (AL) lawmaker and alleged godfather of the crime-prone Feni
district Joynal Abedin Hazari and his accomplice Farooq Hossain Mridha
in an arms case.
The Detective Branch (DB) of the Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP)
yesterday pressed charges against 17 persons including Awami League (AL)
lawmaker from Raozan ABM Fazle Karim Chowdhury for the sensational murder
of computer engineer Srikanta Rakshit.
Share prices fell further yesterday as the market remained bearish amid
heavy selling spree. Majority issues fell at both the Dhaka and Chittagong
bourses on lower demand from buyers.
Most issues opened down both at the DSE and the CSE. Sellers rushed to
offload their stakes to meet cash demand but the buyers refused to inject
funds, which left majority issues on losers' column.
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Neighbour
While
Laloo Yadav and his fellow parliamentarians convey India’s message of love
and peace to Islamabad, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf and Prime
Minister Mir Zafurullah Khan Jamali have sent five boxes of mangoes each
for their Indian counterparts. The Chausa mangoes were delivered to the
residences of President A P J Abdul Kalam and Prime Minister A B Vajpayee
on Sunday.
The World Bank has approved a $54 million credit from the International
Development ssociation to India to help improve the quality and safety of
food and drugs in the country.
A mystery disease spreading through a central West Bengal district has
killed at least 30 children in the past week, reports said Friday. Health
officials in Murshidabad district refuted news of the deaths, but media
reports quoted families of the victims as confirming the fatalities from
an ailment that doctors had apparently failed to diagnose.
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International
Basra residents
overwhelmed by the heat and angry about fuel shortages and electricity
cuts bombarded British soldiers with rocks in a second day of protests
Sunday. A demonstrator and a security guard were killed. Elsewhere in
Iraq, Attacks on the occupation forces continued yesterday. Two American
soldiers were injured in an attack in Tikrit. Two more American soldiers
and an Arab journalist for al-Jazeera were also wounded in a grenade
attack in Baghdad.
Britain's Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon is being lined up as the
government's "fall guy" over the apparent suicide of David Kelly, the
weapons expert at the centre of an uproar over the way Britain was led
into the Iraq war, a British newspaper reported today. As a judicial
inquiry into Kelly's death prepares to begin hearing testimonies Monday,
the Sunday Express said Hoon would resign once presiding judge Lord Brian
Hutton delivers his concluding report into the affair.
Israeli warplanes bombed an anti-aircraft battery on the edge of a south
Lebanon village Sunday in retaliation for shelling by Lebanese guerrillas
that killed an Israeli teenager, the army said. Israel called the air
raids a "warning signal" after the 16-year-old Israeli was killed and four
others were wounded when rockets fired by Hizbollah Shi'ite Muslim
guerrillas hit a shopping center in the northern border town of Shlomi.
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Sports
A first half
penalty corner goal from Ramiz helped Abahani Limited maintain their all
win record in the Green Delta Premier Division Hockey League when they
inflicted a solitary goal defeat on Dhaka Mariner Young Club on Sunday at
Maulana Bhashani Hockey Stadium. It was Abahani's seventh win in as many
matches.
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