Killer Quamrul nabbed Sohel killing case to be shifted to speedy tribunal
Staff Correspondent
The sensational killing of primary school student Sohel Rana case is learnt to have been shifted to Speedy Trial Tribunal soon.
The decision to shift the case was extended when police arrested Quamrul, accused killer of Sohel Rana from city's Bahadderhat area on Friday morning . "The latest arrest is a breakthrough and I hope that the cause for the killing will positively come to light" Muzibur Rahman Mazmuder told People's View on Friday night.
Arms recovered from hide out of Kirich Babul
Staff Correspondent
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) -7 recovered three Light guns, six round of bullets from a hideout of the arrested top terrorist Kirich Babul in city's Bakalia Masterpool area early Friday.
Kirich Babul during one day long quiz confessed that he had arms and ammunition and those were hidden in his rickshaw garage adjacent to his residence.
Subarna's solo music enthralls viewers
Sujon Roy Chowdhury
Several hundred music lovers on Friday evening were spellbound when Subarna Barua, a budding singer glued them with a cluster of songs at city's Muslims Institute Hall.
"I want to sing good songs and to be an artiste with the blessings of all " Subarna, said in her delightful voice with a bit coyness in brief discussion held just before the performance .
Quasem reelected Chittagong club Chairman
Staff Correspondent
Quasem Chowdhury, has been reelected as Chairman while Dr. Omar Faruque Yusuf elected as a vice chairman respectively in the general committee of Chittagong Club Ltd.
Quasem Chowdhury got highest 679 votes than his contestant Halim Bin Rahman who bagged only 73 votes and Vice chairman Dr Omar got the second highest 604 votes.
Lions Club Int'l stands by Sidr victims
Different units of Lions Club Int'l Bangladesh led by Lion AKM Atiur Rhaman, president of Lions Club of Chittagong Diamond City distributed relief materials among cyclone victims in coastal south recently, says a press release.
The relief goods given among victims of Charnaluagram under Charfashion in Bhola, include sweater under the auspices of Lion M Nazrul Islam Foundation, quilt by Lions Club Int'l Dist -315-B4 Bangladesh, lungi by Lions Club of Chittagong Diamond City and sari in assistance with Hotel Saint Martin .
National News
Review committee opposes Asia Energy's coal export proposal
UNB, Dhaka
Asia Energy Corporation Friday said the Phulbari Coal Mine project is unlikely to be economically viable if the government does not allow coal export. Gary Lye, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the UK-based company, said this while making a presentation with its views on Bangladesh's overall coal sector and its Phulbari coal mine project before the Coal Policy Review Committee.
President urges cardiologists to launch mass awareness
UNB, Dhaka
President Professor Dr Iajuddin Ahmed Friday urged the country's cardiologists and cardiac surgeons to launch massive public awareness programmes to check high incident of heart diseases.
"Every year, the number of deaths are alarmingly increasing due to cardiovascular diseases," the President said at the inaugural session of the 2nd International Conference on Updates on Management in Cardiology & Cardiac Surgery at Sheraton Hotel.
USAID provides additional $5M for emergency food
UNB, Dhaka
The U.S. government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Friday announced it will provide $5 million to the Would Food Program (WFP) for the emergency operation in Bangladesh in the aftermath of Cyclone Sidr.
The WFP emergency operation will provide immediate relief assistance to over 2.2 million affected people and help restore livelihoods and rural community infrastructures in Bangladesh.
Global News
Plane crash in Turkey 56 dead
AP, Ankara
An Atlasjet plane crashed shortly before it was due to land in southwest Turkey early Friday, killing all 56 people on board, the airline's chief executive said. The cause was not immediately known.
A rescue helicopter reached the plane's wreckage in a mountainous region near the town of Keciborlu, in Isparta province, and reported that no one had survived the crash, airline CEO Tuncay Doganer said.
Pieces of wreckage and personal belongings were strewn across a vast area and rescue crews were seen placing the dead into body bags. Television news channels showed footage of rescue workers in bright yellow jackets walking around the plane's fuselage, which lay amid rocks and trees on a slope slightly shrouded in fog.
Workers brought in heavy machinery to clear trees and make access to the site easier, state-run news agency Anatolia reported.
Benazir, Sharif divided over polls under Musharraf
AP, Islamabad
Pakistani opposition leaders appeared divided Friday on whether to contest parliamentary elections under President Pervez Musharraf, a day after he bowed to international pressure by saying he would end emergency rule ahead of the ballot. Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said her opposition party planned to participate in the Jan. 8 elections "under protest." "We're worried about the elections, we have our reservations, but we're going in under protest," Bhutto said in an interview with Associated Press Television News. "We hope as we participate we can
try and improve the situation," she said after meeting a U.S. congressional delegation.