Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a drive on Sunday unearthed an substandard butter-manufacturing factory at city's Rajakhali area and detained six persons apart from seizing huge quantity of butter and raw materials used in producing Ghee.
The RAB men claimed that cost of seized butters and
other materials would be more than Taka one crore. RAB sources...More TOP
Over one thousand acres of land of Keochia Forest Research Center under Satkania is reportedly in the grip of illegal occupants .
Most of the grabbers belong to political parties and influential quarters, informed sources said.
Meanwhile, the unauthorized occupants started tree plantation and farming in the land while the timber smugglers have stolen away almost all the trees from the Pine garden there, sources added. The Forest authority is taking steps to recover the land, an officia
Authorities rounded up opposition leaders Sunday after military ruler Gen. Pervez Musharraf suspended Pakistan's constitution, replaced the chief judge and blacked out independent TV outlets, saying the country must fight rising Islamic extremism.
Musharraf, who seized power in a 1999 coup but had given a conditional pledge to step down as military chief and become a civilian president this year, declared a state of emergency Saturday night, dashing recent hopes of a smooth transition to democracy for the nuclear-armed nation.
"Gen. Musharraf's second coup," said the headline
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Members of the Navy during a Sunday raid seized 400 sacks of urea fertilizer while being smuggled to Myanmar from Saint Martin Coast area near the Bay of Bengal.
They also detained eight boatmen from the spot.
Marine and police sources said, the members of the Navy chased two cargo boats on suspicion of smuggling. Eight kilometers from the coast of Saint Martin to the south, they detained one of the boats while the other crossedMore.TOP
The High Court Sunday stayed the operation of the Anti-Corruption Commission graft case filed against former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on charge of taking Tk 3 crore in kickbacks on a power-plant deal. Responding to a writ petition filed by the detained Awami League chief, Hasina, a High Court Division Bench also issued rule upon the ACC and also the government to explain why the placing of the case under the Emergency Powers Rules "should not be declared illegal".