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Local News
Thursday, June 20, 2002
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News Brief, Summary of
more than 20 leading Bangla & English Dailies, Source : News Garden |
Thursday, June 20,
2002
National
Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia has
categorically denied Bangladesh’s link with any Taliban activity.
"Bangladesh is now known in the world as a modern moderate democratic
Muslim country. This image will continue to prevail in the future," she
said,
President AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury came under fire from some Young Turks
at a meeting of the BNP Parliamentary Party (BNPPP) yesterday for not
visiting the mazar of Shaheed President Ziaur Rahman on the occasion of
his death anniversary on May 30.
The parliamentary party of BNP mets again at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban
this morning to discuss the prevailing socio-political situation and
the way to run the partimanet effectively.
A joint meeting of the Awami League (AL) central working committee (WC)
and its parliament party (PP) is being held at Mahanagar Community
Centre in Dhanmondi today (Thursday), to decide party's joining the
Jatiya sangsad.
Awami League yesterday termed as unprecedented in parliamentary
democracy the "indecorous and vulgar remarks" in Parliament about the
Leader of the Opposition and ex-Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina followed by
the passage of a "so-called" resolution
Awami League General Secretary Zillur Rahman, MP, was admitted to
Shikdar Medical Hospital Tuesday night following a heart attack, party
sources said. He was under constant supervision of the physicians at CCU
of the hospital.
The Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) will hold rally and stage
demonstration across the country today (Thursday) in protest against
what it called the 'anti-people' budget. As part of the programme, the
CPB will hold a rally at Muktangon in the city at 5:00 pm. Party
president Manjurul Ahsan Khan will preside over the meeting
Two elected ward commissioners of Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) were
arrested from Nagar Bhaban yesterday.
Bangladesh House Building Loan Borrowers Welfare Association (BHBLBWA)
yesterday urged the House Building Finance Corporation (HBFC) to stop
its irregularities and harassment of the borrowers in recovering the
loans.
The government has imposed a temporary and partial restriction on
manpower export to Brunei. "None would be allowed to send workers to
that country without clearance from the Bangladesh embassy there," said
Mohammad Quamrul Islam, State minister for Expatriate Welfare and
Overseas Employment.
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Neighbour
The threat of war between India and
Pakistan appears to be finally receding despite little let up in the
verbal hostilities between the South Asian neighbors, reports CNN.
Heavy artillery firing erupted Wednesday between Indian and Pakistani
paramilitary troops on the borders of the desert state of Rajasthan
following an overnight skirmish that left two people dead, an army
spokesman said.
APJ Abdul Kalam, the military scientist who developed India’s missile
programme said Wednesday that his expected election as the nation’s
president will send the right signal to the world, reports AP.
Hamid Karzai was sworn in yesterday as president of Afghanistan's new
transitional administration in a ceremony which marked the end of the
nine-day Loya Jirga grand assembly.
Karzai swore to "protect the independence and territorial integrity of
Afghanistan in the name of God".
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International
A suicide bomber sprang from a car,
slipped past a pair of policemen and blew himself up at a busy Jerusalem
intersection Wednesday, killing at least seven other people in the second
deadly attack in the city in two days.
As many as 4,000 people were ordered out of their homes Wednesday as a
wind-whipped wildfire exploded to 30,000 acres as it leaped from treetop
to treetop in the mountains of eastern Arizona.
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Sports
Dhaka Railway posted a big 4-0 win over
Wari Club in the lone match of the Green Delta Premier Hockey League on
Wednesday at Maulana Bhashani Hockey Stadium.
The winners netted two goals in each half.
English county cricketer Ali Brown set a world record with a phenomenal
innings of 268 in a limited-overs match at The Oval on Wednesday.
Italians are furious over their team's exit from the World Cup at the
hands of South Korea, with players, press, officials and the public all
suggesting a plot involving the referee.
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Weather
Light to moderate rain or
thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind are likely at many
places over Rajshahi division and at a few places over Dhaka, Khulna,
Chittagong, Sylhet and Barisal divisions until 6:00 pm Thursday.
Moderately heavy falls is also likely at places over the country during
the period the Met Office said predicting nearly unchanged day temperature
over the country.
Country's highest temperature 35.4 degree Celsius was recorded Wednesday,
at Khulna and the lowest 24.0 degree Celsius at Rangpur, Syedpur and
Dinajpur. The sun sets in the capital today at 6:49 pm and rises on Friday
at 5:11am.
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Note:
We sincerely feel sorry for the
inadvertent delay in sending this news bulletin. We had a disruption of
electricity supply at our production centre this morning.
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