CCCI urges 50 PC share of Rupali to pvt sector
Chittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) in a fax message to the Chief Advisor Dr. Fakhruddin Ahmed requested for disinvestment of 50% share of the state owned Rupali Bank through stock market. The message was sent yesterday urging the govt. to take immediate steps for disinvestment of share to private sectors rather cancelling the ideas of transferring of its ownership to foreign nation or person through a un-transparent process and selling complications. It said at present 93.24% share of Rupali Bank (RB) still in hands of govt. mentionable that the govt. ownership of the Bank was sold out to Saudi Prince Md.
School boy drowned in drain
Staff Correspondent
A primary school student drowned in a road side drain in city’s Enayet Bazar area on Tuesday morning. The dead was identified as Rubel (9), son of Mohammed Bacchu Mia, student of class two of National Government Primary School.
One light gun recovered at pahartali
Staff Correspondent
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) -7 recovered a Light Gun (LG) from West Nasirabad area under Pahartali Police Station on early Tuesday.
Devastating fire Gutted valuables Of Tk.10 Lakhs
Staff Correspondent
Valuables worth Tk 10 lakhs were gutted in a fire incident that broke out in Kandir Para area on West Sundarpur union at Fhatikchari upazila on early Tuesday.
Women SME Expo Bangladesh draws huge visitors : Child Care Centre opened
Staff Correspondent
The month long first ever Women SME Expo Bangladesh- 07 better known as trade fair at city’s Railway Pologround draws huge visitors of all walks of life .
The Women SME Expo aimed at encouraging women of small and medium scale entrepreneurships in trade and commerce to a large extent kicked off on November 20 last being held under the aegis of Chittagong Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CWCCI) .
National News
SC upholds HC ruling : Mandatory disclosure of Personal info of candidates
P View desk
Throwing away an appeal by an absentee appellant, the Supreme Court Tuesday upheld the High Court ruling
that made mandatory for candidates in parliamentary elections to make public personal information.
A full hierarchy of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice M Ruhul Amin delivered the judgement, trouncing the challenger of this electoral reform measure, UNB reports from Dhaka.
Highest state honours accorded : Hamidur laid to eternal sleep in his dreamland
P View desk
Liberation War hero Birshreshtha Hamidur Rahman was Tuesday finally laid to eternal rest in his independent homeland
he died for 36 years before, with highest state honors.
Before the burial, the nation paid last respects to the independence hero, who sacrificed his life for the freedom of the nation, as his last remains lay in state at the National Parade Square at Shere-e-Bangla Nagar in the capital in the morning, UNB reports from Dhaka.
16th Bangladesh-India dialogue begins : political relation on at appropriate live - Iftekhar
P View desk
Foreign Advisor Dr Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury Tuesday said the current Bangladesh-India relations are at
appropriate levels to begin serious negotiations on the various issues through bilateral mechanisms created for those purposes.
Global News
Twin car bombs kill 67 in Algiers
Reuters
Sixty-seven people were killed when two car bombs exploded in upscale districts of Algiers on Tuesday, a health ministry source said, in the bloodiest attack since an undeclared civil war in the 1990s. There was no immediate claim of responsibility but commentators said it appeared the work of al Qaeda's north Africa wing, which claimed a similar bombing in downtown Algiers in April and other blasts east of the capital over the summer that have worried foreign investors in the OPEC member state. The White House, concerned by Islamist militancy in north Africa, described the attackers as "enemies of humanity". A UN spokesman said one employee of the UN refugee agency was killed and another was missing.