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Sunday,
August 24, 2003
National
On
her return from abroad, Leader of the Opposition and Awami League (AL)
chief Sheikh Hasina yesterday reiterated her party's stand that the
Netrokona-3 by-election was rigged.
Tareque Rahman, senior joint secretary general of Bangladesh Nationalist
Party (BNP), will act as acting secretary general during party Secretary
General and Local Government, Rural Development (LGRD) and Cooperatives
Minister Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan's weeklong visit to Jakarta till August 30.
Unidentified persons demanded a ransom of Tk 10 lakh for Ibrahim Mia
Simon, 17, son of a wealthy businessman, who along with a friend has been
missing from Double Mooring area in Chittagong since Wednesday evening.
Home Minister Altaf Hossain Chowdhury yesterday told the Parliamentary
Standing Committee on the home ministry there was nothing to be worried
about the activities of so-called Islamic militants.
Additional District and Sessions Judge's Court in Cox’s Bazar yesterday
awarded death sentence to nine people for killing a man over land dispute
in Moheshkhali 13 years ago.
The Supreme Court yesterday stayed the High Court (HC) order on the
Ekushey Television (ETV) case regarding its licence and return of
equipment until Wednesday.
The country’s ‘aman’ output in the current season might face setbacks due
to delays in plantation triggered by the recent floods across the country,
sources said. "Plantation of ''''aman'''' crops has been delayed because
of the recent floods, which might eventually retard the country’s major
foodgrain production," reports The Financial Express.
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Neighbour
President
General Pervez Musharraf told the visiting US lawmakers on Saturday that
Pakistan would not allow use of its soil for terrorist activity across its
borders
Eight Mujahideen and three Indian security force personnel were killed in
separate incidents of violence in occupied Kashmir overnight and on
Saturday, The Dawn reports.
Hundreds of people thronged and queued up in four outlets of Nepal Telecom
Corporation (NTC) in Kathmandu on Saturday, the first day of the launching
of the pre-paid mobile service in Nepal.
Alarmed by reports in India, Nepalise authorities conduced lab tests on
sample products of some soft drinks, including Coca-cola and Pepsi but
found no clue that they contain any kind of hazardous ingredients or
pesticides, a report said Friday.
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International
Turkey will
send 10,000 troops to Iraq if the government decides to help the US-led
coalition to restore stability there, Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah
Gul said in an interview published on Saturday.
The death toll among coalition forces rose Saturday when three British
soldiers were killed in a guerrilla attack in southern Iraq . Also, U.S.
troops killed two Iraqi Turkomen who opened fire when soldiers arrived to
quell a bloody ethnic clash in the north.
Former employees of Enron Corp have won the company's support in their
quest to recover $53 million paid to a select group of executives a month
before the energy giant filed for bankruptcy.
Former US priest John Geoghan, the convicted child molester whose
prosecution sparked the sex abuse scandal that shook the Roman Catholic
Church nationwide, died Saturday after being attacked in prison.
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Sports
Top
seed and defending champion Chen Hong of China proved more than a match
for local challenger Ronald Susilo in the men’s singles quarter final
Friday of the 170,000-dollar Singapore Open badminton tournament.
India
overcame a 3-2 deficit at half time to defeat archrival’s Pakistan 7-4 in
a drama-packed tie at the men’sChampions Trophy field hockey tournament in
Amsterdam Friday. "This is one of the best victories of my career since
1990 and to win with the largest score against Pakistan in my memory is
wonderful," said India captain Dhanraj Pillay.
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