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Wishing happy new year
Osman Gani Mansur

It is customary to wish happy new year to everybody. In that time-honoured sense, there should be no departure from that practice. As Editor and Publisher of Chittagong’s lone worthmentioning English daily The Daily People’s View, I, therefore, consider it obligatory to wish happy new year to all our valued readers, advertisers, patrons and well-wishers. May the omnipotent, by His infinite mercy, bless all of us with long happy life, peace and prosperity.

Ever since coming out anew regularly under new management from November 01 last, the Daily People’s View has been in the limelight with its ultra-modern printing, 4 colour overall disposition and illustrations depicting history, heritage and many other specialities of this region.

It is, however, a good omen that our readers, advertisers and patrons have accepted the daily People’s View as an excellent forum to serve their taste, commercial purpose and for objective news-treatment, flawless 4-colour printing and attractive subject-wise illustrations. We are happy to acknowledge their generosity.

As Editor & Publisher of the daily People’s View, I understand fully how much financial burden I had to shoulder at the beginning and what is day to day involvement now to keep up the spirit. But I have to confess with gratitude that there has been no dearth of patronization from our well-wishers and patrons on whom we can always confidently bank upon.

It is not that we have reasons to be complacent now. The daily People’s View will continue to need more and more meaningful support to tide over the initial financial impediments. Our valued advertisers and generous patrons are ardently requested to extend more generous help to overcome any difficulty now and in the future.

While bidding adieu to 2007, we are also welcoming the new year that is 2008. The year 2007 was very eventful in many respects. The first ever massive drive against corruption has brought the present caretaker Government to prominence.

 A good number of our political stalwarts are now behind the bar awaiting trial and punishment or release. So are many traders, bankers, prominent and wealthy persons. Those are major incidents taken place during 2007.

We have to admit that the introduction of national identity card with photographs during 2007 was another noteworthy event in our national history. This will go a long way in elections and many other purposes.

November 15, 2007 devastation of Sidr super-cyclone is another worthmentioning event which lashed coastal areas of Bangladesh killing approximately 3000 people and wounding innumerable men, women and children. The nation will take a long time to heal the wound.

In Pakistan, suspected militants killed two-term prime minister and Chairperson of PPP Benazir Bhutto by bomb-blasts and gun shots on 27th December.
All those were major events taken place during 2007. With many successes and lapses, the memory of just departed year 2007 will not so easily banish from our mind. Especially, some events will remain ever fresh in our memory.

Now we are at the threshold of the new year, that is 2008 with a lot of hopes and aspirations. We are now beset with many problems like abnormal prices of essentials.
Law and order situation in the country is not at all satisfactory. The Government have to rehabilitate lacs of Sidr-affected people.

With all those burdens on our shoulders and multiplex problems, we are now at the threshold of the new year. We have to solve all those problems with courage and fortitude.

It is not possible for the Government alone to solve so many economic problems with which we are confronted. Our well-to-do section of people have to help solve those problems. The Government is now conducting anti-corruption drive. We should extend all out support to make the drive successful.

 

SA Paribahan robbed of Tk 1.34 lakh in daylight

Staff Correspondent
Armed snatchers in broad day light stormed into a private courier  service provider at city’s Nasirabad area and took away TK 1.34 lakhs in cash at gunpoint and injured an official attached to cash counter of the service.

Police quoting eyewitnesses said that a group of armed snatchers not less than seven persons entered into a branch of SA Paribahan at city’s Nasirabad area at about 1:30 p.m. in guise of clients with sophisticated arms.

Suddenly they picked up arms on hands encircled the cash counter and other attending officials. The asked the accountant to hand over cash money at gunpoint. When the accountant denied accepting the goons’ proposal, the snatchers picked up cash money giving no scope of resistance to the attending officials.

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Peoples View

Ekushey Padak demanded for shefali Ghose

Staff Correspondent

Participants in a memorial meeting on Monday paid glowing tributes to legendary singer of Chittagong   Shefali Ghose but resented that she was not  awarded with state honour.

“ The speakers demanded for awarding Shefali Ghose with Ekushey Award (posthumously)  and naming of a road in the city after her name ” they said in a memorial meting held to mark her first anniversary .

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Peoples View

Nandankanon becomes flower garden on new years eve

Hosne Ara
Nandankanan area in the city, that hosts scores of flower shops and nurseries, has tken a festive and colourful look to help people celebrate the new year’s day today.
The flower shops and nurseries are heaped up with green flowers of different kinds. shops are crowded with bunches of flowers of different species now fascinating with fragrance all around. Nandan kanan with the DC hill at its core has truly become a flower garden now.

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Trial of war criminals must for sake of democracy

It is moral obligation of Bangalee nation to demand for trial of war criminals for a prosperous Sonar Bangla. The revolutionary leader in Anti-British movement and frontline leader of Ghatak Dala Nirmul Committee. Chittagong Chapter Binod Bihari Chowdhury said it while adducing the concluding session of a function held on Ghadani Smriti-71 scenario and mass signatory campaing. In first day of man signatory collection progrm, about one thousand pro-liberation persons signed. Secretary of the Ghadani Committee, Chittagong Journalist Showkat Bangalee in statement said people of all strta spontaneously given signature in the signatory drive against war criminals.

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Mohiuddin to be produced before court today

Staff Correspondent

Chittagong City Corporation Mayor Alhaj ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury and Chief Executive Officer Imtiaz Hossain Chowdhury are expected to be produced before the court today for the hearing of a graft case filed by Chittagong division wing of Anti Corruption Commission.
Earlier, they were produced before the court on December 27 last in a graft case for embezzling government funds in the name of launching private television station 'Bijoy TV'.
Judge SM Solaiman set January 1 next of the new year as there had been no gazette notification published to date naming CCC chief engineer Mokhter Alam as another co-accused in the case.

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Peoples View

Adieu 2007 Welcome  2008

Samir Kanti Barua 

The glittering last sun of the winter has    set   in the western sky toward its eternal journey. 
Alike a fallen leaf   the year 2007 has just turn way from the Gregorian almanac which is now almost   the tales of the old days . We all are now busy to welcome the new year by giving and taking the accounts of the outgoing year.
We welcome the first sun of the new year, let it spray the ray of new dream and immense expectation, Happy New year. 
The year  2007 that began with some happiness but left a  traumatic event just at the end of the year with assassination of former Pakistani  premier Benazir Bhutto and devastating tropical cyclone Sidr.

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Case filed against ex BNP MP Pramanik, 12 others for patronizing militants

P View desk 

A case has been filed against former BNP MP Shamsul Alam Pramanik and 12 others for extortion and patronizing militants.
Poultry trader Azizul Alam of Dashpara village in Manda upazila filed the case with the cognizance court here on July 7 this year. The judge asked the police to inquire into the case. After necessary investigation police Sunday night accepted the case as regular one, UNB reports from Naogaon.

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Case filed against ex BNP MP Pramanik, 12 others for patronizing militants

P View desk 

A case has been filed against former BNP MP Shamsul Alam Pramanik and 12 others for extortion and patronizing militants.
Poultry trader Azizul Alam of Dashpara village in Manda upazila filed the case with the cognizance court here on July 7 this year. The judge asked the police to inquire into the case. After necessary investigation police Sunday night accepted the case as regular one, UNB reports from Naogaon.

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Global News

Bakhtawar Zardari, daughter of Pakistan's slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, reads Islam's holy book Quran at the grave of her mother in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh near Larkana, Pakistan. Peoples View

Video of Benazir killing raises questions

AP, Islamabad

Video footage of Benazir Bhutto's assassination raised new questions Monday about the government's version of how she died, while elections officials said they would take another day to decide whether to delay critical Jan. 8 elections.
Pakistan's major opposition parties are demanding the elections take place on time despite concerns the country remains too volatile to hold the polls, seen as a key step in U.S.-backed plans to restore democracy to the nation as it battles Taliban and al-Qaida militants.
An election commission official said the body would announce a decision on the timing of the elections on Tuesday after hearing from regional officials on the "law and order situation" in the country. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

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Bhutanese elects National Council in move toward democracy

AP, Samdrup Jongkhar

Thousands of Bhutanese went to the polls Monday to elect a National Council, the final stage before democratic elections that will end nearly 100 years of absolute monarchy in the secluded Himalayan country.
The vote caps a whirlwind year of transformation for the tiny kingdom since the monarch declared in December 2006 he was abdicating in favor of his 26-year-old son and ushering in democracy.
In this small trading town near the border with India, dozens of people dressed in their green, blue and red checked traditional robes - knee length for the men and ankle-length for the women -lined up at a local school to cast their votes. They were electing members of the National Council, a small group of eminent Bhutanese, which will act as an upper house after parliament is elected in February.

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