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Monday, September
15, 2003
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Monday,
September 15, 2003
National
The High Court
yesterday declared the election of the Jamaat-e-Islami leader, Maulana
Delwar Hossain Sayedee, to Parliament from the Pirojpur-1 constituency
illegal and void on grounds of submission of false statement about his
poll expenses.
Awami League will continue their boycott of the Jatiya Sangsad until and
unless the Prime Minister and the Speaker seek apology for their
Saturday’s remarks in addition to fulfilment of its three-point demand.
The ruling BNP lawmaker and Minister MK Anwar told the Jatiya Sangsad that
the government was scrutinising different articles of the Chittagong Hill
Tracts peace accord and would revise any article which was
anti-constitution in the peace accord.
Chairperson of CHT Regional Council Jyotirindra Bodhipriya Larma alias
Santu Larma yesterday demanded formation of a judicial probe commission,
immediate publication of the probe report, rehabilitation of settlers
outside hill districts and exemplary punishment to the culprits.
Finance and Planning Minister M Saifur Rahman said on Saturday that he
would ask the Bangladesh Bank to devise rules and regulations so that a
bank would be compelled to provide working capital loan to a project that
received a loan for capital machinery from that bank.
World Bank has suggested Bangladesh to reintroduce the upazila system in
the country with a view to strengthening the local government
administration.
South Korean Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Kim Jae-sup will visit
Bangladesh from September 17 to 19 on a goodwill mission to celebrate the
3oth anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries this
year.
Jute-Cotton-Garments Mills and Factories Sramik-Karmachari Sangram
Parishad has called a countrywide dawn-to-dusk strike tomorrow to press
home its five-point demands.
The government will equip the police force with Chinese rifles instead
of.303 rifles and install close circuit cameras at crowded places in the
city to combat crimes.
The government yesterday fired four high officials of the Power Grid
Company for their
negligence at the
Mirpur grid sub-station on Friday morning.
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Neighbour
All members of the
Nepal cabinet, except a minister, have moved to the Minister’s quarters at
Harihar Bhawan, Pulchowk, in view of security threats, a published report
said Monday.
Bhutan's King Jigme Singye Wangchuk begins a four-day visit to India on
Sunday in affirmation on a relationship that is unique despite the huge
asymmetry in size and strength. Both the countries are going to sign a
hydro-power project.
Nepali and visiting Indian officials are holding negotiations on the
development of the Upper Karnali and Budhi Gandaki hydroelectric project
Monday (today), a published report said.
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International
World trade talks
collapsed Sunday amid sharp differences between rich and poor nations, a
blow to the World Trade Organization that many poor countries called a
victory against the West.
US Secretary of State Colin Powell, becoming the highest ranking U.S.
official to visit Iraq since the ouster of Saddam Hussein, said Sunday he
is convinced "the winds of freedom are blowing" across the country but
acknowledged the possibility that terrorists are trying to sabotage the
process toward self-rule.
The second-ranking official in the Israeli government Vice Prime Minister
Ehud Olmert said Sunday that killing Arafat is a possibility — along with
expelling him or keeping him in a siege that would "isolate him from the
world." as thousands of Palestinians took to the streets across the West
Bank and Gaza Strip promising to protect their leader.
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Sports
The Under-19
national cricket camp will begin today at BKSP, Savar, for the preparation
for next year's ICC Youth World Cup Cricket in Bangladesh.
The 8th National Summer Athletics Championship begins today at the Mirpur
Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium. Some 400 athletes from different
districts, divisions, education boards, universities and services' teams
will participate in the meet.
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