Muktijuddher Boi Mela Art Competion Dec 14
On the occasion of the ensuing Muktijuddher Boi Mela, Muktijuddha AK Fazlul Hoque Smriti Shishu-Kishore Gold Medal Art Competition will be held on Dec 14 at D.C Hill presmises..
The competition consists of two groups, Ka and Kha.
The students from class 1-4 will be included in group 1 while those from class 5-8 in group Kha.
CCCI AGM today
The apex business organization of the port city Chittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industry(CCC&I) will hold its Annual General Meeting(AGM) for the year 2006-2007 at 12 noon on Thursday, today says a press release.
National News
Sedition case against Mujahid, Kader Molla, Shah Hannan
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A sedition case was filed today against Jamaat secretary general Ali Ahmed Mohammad Mujahid, assistant secretary general Abdul Kader Molla and former NBR chairman Shah Mohammad Abdul Hannan.
Mohammad Fazlur Rahman, a freedom fighter and resident of south Kamerkanda in Keraniganj, filed the case with CMM court accusing them of opposing the independence of Bangladesh and killing, looting and rape during the war of liberation, reports UNB
After hearing the petitioner magistrate Emran Hossain Chowdhury admitted the case and referred the case document to Tejgaon thana with direction to register it as ejahar (FIR).
In his petition Fazlur said the accused had opposed the independence of Bangladesh and engaged in killing, looting and rape during the liberation war of 1971 by forming Al Badr, Al Shams and Rajakar
bahinis. The atrocities of the bahinis were published in daily Sangbad at that time.
Law to take own course in trial of two top leaders: CA
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Chief Adviser Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed Wednesday told the visiting Danish Minister for Development Cooperation that the law will take its own course over the trial of the two detained top political leaders.
“Here court is open - judiciary is open. No one is above the law and everyone will get due process of law,” the head of caretaker government categorically said when the Minister of Denmark, Ms Ullah
Tornaes, wanted to know about the trial of the two top leaders of the two major political parties, reports UNB
The Danish Minister made a courtesy call on the Chief Adviser at his office, when relief and rehabilitation works, election, political reforms and prices of essentials came up for discussion.
Gov to gift nation Right to Information Act shortly
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Chief Adviser Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed Wednesday said his government wants to offer the nation Right to Information Act shortly, as the draft law is being readied to take effect.
He hoped that Information and Law Ministries would take next steps “soon” to make the draft Act effective.The head of the caretaker government expressed the optimism inaugurating the convention on “Right to Information for a Democratic and Corruption-Free Bangladesh” organized by Manusher Jonno Foundation at Hotel Sheraton.Law and Information Adviser Barrister Mainul Hosein,former Adviser and executive director of Ain-O-Salish Kendra Sultana Kamal and executive director of Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF) Shaheen Anam also spoke at the inaugural function presided over by former Adviser and chairperson of MJF Syed Manjur Elahi. Dr Shamsul Bari, chairman of the Research Institute of Bangladesh, presented a keynote paper at theConvention, reports UNB.
Global News
Sonia struggles in key Indian state vote
Reuters, India
Billed as "the goddess of sacrifice", she descended in a helicopter from a cloudless sky, towards an expectant crowd. But Sonia Gandhi, India's most powerful politician, has been short of magic this week as she struggles to strike an emotional chord with voters in her Congress party's campaign a week ahead of state elections in the key western battleground of Gujarat. The vote, in which Congress is trying to unseat a Hindu nationalist state government, is being closely watched as the countdown begins to national polls due by mid-2009 and could even influence their timing.
Bali climate talks throw focus on Kyoto offsets
Reuters, Indonesia
Rich nations have less than a month to go before they must start meeting emissions caps under the Kyoto Protocol that aims to fight global warming. Yet 16 of the 36 industrialised nations bound by Kyoto limits are over their targets set for 2008-2012 and will have to buy carbon offsets to meet these, drawing criticism at a UN meeting in Bali. "There's this quite strong feeling (among poorer countries) that a number of commitments in those areas, commitments from the past, have not been met and will be conveniently forgotten when we switch to a new agenda item called the future," said Yvo de Boer, the UN's head of climate change. About 190 nations are meeting in Bali to try to initiate two years of talks that will lead to a successor pact from 2013. The goal is to agree on a broader climate pact bringing together rich and poor countries because targets under the existing Kyoto Protocol have been deemed too weak for the longer term.