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Saturday, September
13, 2003
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Saturday,
September 13, 2003
National
Awami
League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged people to join a mass
procession on September 15 and a nationwide shutdown on September 25 to
symbolise a vote of no-confidence in the coalition
At least 1200 "trained" members of Hizbut Towhid, an Islamic militant
organisation, are active in Kushtia, Meherpur, Chuadanga and Jhenidah
districts, reports The Daily Star.
Anti-globalisation groups and left-leaning parties in Bangladesh continued
demonstrations and processions yesterday against the on-going key
ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) that opened on
Wednesday at the Mexican resort of Cancun. In a protest rally, a coalition
of four left-leaning parties termed the Cancun meeting a gathering of
looters.
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Neighbour
Pakistan
Foreign Minister Mian Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri and Bangladesh Leader of the
Opposition in Parliament Sheikh Hasina discussed bilateral and regional
cooperation when the former called on her at her residence Sudha Sadan
yesterday morning.
India will not send troops to Iraq even if the United Nations mandates
multinational peacekeeping operations in the strife-torn country, the
Indian media reported yesterday. However, the real reason, the reports
said, was that national elections are due in India by October 2004 and the
ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) believes it would be
politically disastrous if any Indian soldier died in Iraq.
India's Supreme Court has launched a scathing attack on the authorities in
the state of Gujarat over their handling of a riot last year in which 12
Muslims were burned to death in a bakery by a Hindu mob.
India is to privatise the country's two main international airports in
Delhi and Bombay (Mumbai). It is hoped the move will attract money to
upgrade the airports to world standards. Under the plan, approved by the
Indian cabinet, private firms will be able to buy a stake of up to 74%.
Two persons, including the prime suspect in the August 25 twin blasts at
the city's Zaveri Bazaar and the Gateway of India, were shot dead in an
encounter by the Bombay crime branch of police on Friday.
Maoists in Nepal ambushed and killed two soldiers at Shivapuri, north of
the Kathmandu valley around 12.30 in the afternoon yesterday.
Two rockets exploded near camps of the NATO-led International Security
Assistance Force (ISAF) in the Afghan capital Kabul, but caused no
casualties, a military statement said yesterday
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International
US Secretary of
State Colin Powell on Friday rejected as "totally unrealistic" a French
timetable for the full transfer of authority in Iraq to local control,
starting with the establishment of a provisional government next month.
American troops have killed at least eight Iraqi police officers at a
checkpoint in Falluja, west of Baghdad, witnesses say. The coalition
sources mentioned it as “mistaken” friendly firing.
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat remained defiant yesterday after Israel
decided to expel him, with militants warning all Israelis of a "volcano of
anger" if the threat is carried out.
The United Nations Security Council has voted to lift more than a decade
of sanctions against Libya. The move clears the way for the payment of
compensation to families of the victims of the bombing of a Pan Am jet
above the Scottish town of Lockerbie in 1988.
Change bed sheets once a week, store pots near the stove, and never, ever
wash whites with darks. That is just some of the advice found on a
popular new Internet portal aimed at helping recently divorced Portuguese
men tackle the domestic chores which they used to leave up to their wives.
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Sports
Pakistan
defeated Bangladesh by 74 runs in the second one-day international match
at Iqbal stadium Friday. The footballers' transfer of the Dhaka Metropolis
Senior Division Football league will be held from September 20-23 at the
Metropolis League Committee office of the Bangabandhu National Stadium.
BJMC clinched the title of the 16th Pepsi National Women Handball
Championship outplaying Bangladesh Ansar by 22-13 goals in the final on
Friday at Shamsul Huda Stadium, Jessore.
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