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Local News
Thursday, September
19, 2002
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News Brief, Summary of
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Thursday, September
19, 2002
National
Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia
yesterday ordered immediate inquiry into attack on Radhunibari police post
as security around Jamuna Bridge was tightened and hunt for the miscreants
was intensified.
Opposition leader Sheikh Hasina is skeptical about present parliament's
efficacy in addressing people's problems and finding solutions because of
what she said government's hostile attitude and lack of transparency.A
total of 1,45,818 candidates including 60049 female students out of
5,38,295 came out successful in this year's nationwide Higher Secondary
Certificate (HSC) Examinations.The percentage of successful students was
26.26.Former State Minister Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir was set free on
Wednesday as he was granted bail in all the 7 cases filed against him. He
had been arrested in March when he returned home after a long stay abroad.
The World Bank (WB) would provide nearly 200 million US dollars for a
project for improvement of rural transport systems expected to begin in
the first quarter of next year.Bangladesh Bank yesterday suspended four
officials and issued show cause notice to four commercial banks for
lending controversial loans to a marwari businessman Omprakash Agarwal.
Bangladesh economy during January-July 2002 has achieved a higher monetary
stability as reflected in lower-than-expected inflation, a stronger
exchange rate and higher-than- projected economic growth, reports The
Daily Star.
The Trustee Board of Hindu Welfare Trust under the Religious Affairs
Ministry at a meeting yesterday announced a Tk 2.18 crore budget of the
Trust for the 2002-2003 fiscal.
Bangladesh has called upon the international community to take urgent
actions to stop Israeli aggression and bring an end to repeated occupation
of Palestinian territories. Foreign Minister M Morshed Khan made
Bangladesh's position clear in this regard in a statement delivered at the
Annual Coordination Meeting of the OIC Foreign Ministers on Tuesday.
An Israeli policeman was killed and two
other Israelis were wounded Wednesday when a suicide bomber blew himself
up at a bus stop near the town of Umm el-Fahm, CNN reports.
Intelligence gathered by Southeast Asian security officials has revealed
the presence of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network in the region, a top
Thai defence official said Wednesday. "We have co-operated with other
countries in intelligence sharing. We have some proof of that," Admiral
Narong Yuthavong, supreme commander of the Royal Thai Armed Forces,
according to a latest report published in The Dawn.
Millions of people in 45 coffee-growing countries are facing economic ruin
- and many are going hungry - due to collapsing world prices. Oxfam
Wednesday launched a global campaign to tackle the coffee crisis and force
the corporate giants who dominate the $60 billion industry to pay farmers
a decent price.
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Neighbours
Hindu-Muslim violence broke out
Tuesday in India's Gujarat for the first time in more than a month,
leaving one dead and at least 13 injured in mob violence, police said.
Police fired rifle and tear-gas rounds to disperse an angry crowd and
curfew was imposed in the town of Bosad.
After traversing through Saurashtra, the BJP-sponsored Gujarat Gaurav
Yatra's third phase will commence from Unnai, a religious place of
tribals near Vansda, from Saturday. State BJP general secretary and
yatra convenor Jayantibhai Barot said that the yatra would start after
Chief Minister Narendra Modi offering prayers at the temple on September
21.
The Gaurav Yatra, about to commence in the city next week, is most
likely to face the ire of thousands of powerloom unit owners in the
textile city and around following a decision by the Federation of
Gujarat Weavers Association (FOGWA), in a meeting held near Bhathena to
boycott the coming Assembly polls, reports The Times of India.
India's minorities commission demands to hear tapes of a speech in which
the Gujarat chief minister is allegedly offensive to Muslims.
In a significant political decision, the Uttar Pradesh government in
India said on Tuesday that there was no need to issue fresh notification
in the Babri Mosque demolition case in which L K Advani and M M Joshi
are among the accused.
Health officials in the southern Indian state of Kerala say that a
disease spread by rats has resulted in the deaths of nearly 60 people in
the last three months. Doctors say the disease, which is called
Leptospirosis, spreads from the urine of rats leading to high fever and
convulsion.
Negligence, infrastructural shortcomings, mismanagement by hospital
authorities, led to the death of 10 children at BC Roy hospital,
according to a health department probe report on recent child deaths in
a Kolkata Hospital.
Pakistan and Azerbaijan Tuesday signed an agreement to enhance defence
co-operation. The agreement was signed between the visiting Azeri
Defence Minister Colonel General Safar Abiyev and Pakistan Defence
Secretary Hamid Nawaz Khan in Karachi, reports The Dawn.
Significant progress was made Tuesday in the first round of peace talks
aimed at ending one of the world's longest-running civil wars, and more
meetings are planned between the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil
Tiger rebels, sources told CNN.
There was heavy exchange of fire between suspected militants and
security personnel, including the police and the CRPF, near Bhutan
border at Changmari forest under Alipurduar subdivision of Jalpaiguri
district of West Bengal on Tuesday morning. Earlier, shootat-sight
orders had been issued along the state's border with Bhutan following
the steps taken to restrict the movement of insurgents.
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International
Bangladesh has called upon the
international community to take urgent actions to stop Israeli aggression
and bring an end to repeated occupation of Palestinian territories.
Foreign Minister M Morshed Khan made Bangladesh's position clear in this
regard in a statement delivered at the Annual Coordination Meeting of the
OIC Foreign Ministers on Tuesday.
An Israeli policeman was killed and two
other Israelis were wounded Wednesday when a suicide bomber blew himself
up at a bus stop near the town of Umm el-Fahm, CNN reports.
Intelligence gathered by Southeast Asian security officials has revealed
the presence of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network in the region, a top
Thai defence official said Wednesday. "We have co-operated with other
countries in intelligence sharing. We have some proof of that," Admiral
Narong Yuthavong, supreme commander of the Royal Thai Armed Forces,
according to a latest report published in The Dawn.
Millions of people in 45 coffee-growing countries are facing economic ruin
- and many are going hungry - due to collapsing world prices. Oxfam
Wednesday launched a global campaign to tackle the coffee crisis and force
the corporate giants who dominate the $60 billion industry to pay farmers
a decent price.
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Sports
Bangladesh will meet in an uneven
battle with the world champions Australia in their first match of the
ICC Champions Trophy at the Premadasa Stadium in Colombo today
(Thursday).
Arambagh KS finished fourth in the NBL Metropolis Premier Division
Football League beating Dhanmondi Club by a solitary goal in their last
super five engagement at the Floodlit Bangabandhu National Stadium in
the city Wednesday.
Two old foes Abahani Limited and Mohammedan Sporting Club meet today
(Thursday) in the last super- league match of the NBL Premier Division
Football to decide the prestigious title.
Marcus Trescothick's impressive run with the bat continued as he slammed
a strokeful 119 to set up England's 108-run victory over Zimbabwe in the
Champions Trophy one-day tournament in Colombo on Wednesday.
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