| Guardians in high
tension over admission
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Guardians are seen waiting outside the examination halls of admission tests at Dr. Khastagir Government Girls High School in the city. Photo : AUH Dulal |
Staff Correspondent
The second round admission tests at different public schools for registering students in class-V ended here in the city yesterday.
Guardians of the several thousand children in the city are passing their days with high tension over the admission-battle at nine public secondary schools that began on January 6 last.
Parents were desperately looking for ensuring their loving kid's admission in the reputed schools at any cost and some cases are lobbying with different accessible sources to ensure access in the admission process since the beginning of admission
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| Adviser
Rasheda attends
Pitha Utsob |
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Adviser for Women, Child, Primary and Mass Education Ministry, Rasheda K Chowdhury talks intimately with eminent writer Syed Shamsul Hoq in Pitha Utsab in Dhaka. Photo : Focus bangla |
P View desk
The month of "Poush" occupies a special place in the episode of Bengali culture in as much as it is connected with making and appreciating of winter cakes as Vapa Pitha etc. With the advent of this month, therefore, the nation could not but indulge in the warmth of the season. A day-long Pitha Utshab (festival) was held in the capital on this occasion yesterday. Writer Sayed Shamsul Hoq and Narrator Anwara Sayeda Hoq inaugurated it where Adviser for Women, Child, Primary and Mass Education Ministry, Rasheda K Chowdhury Managing Director of
Channel i Faridur Reza Sagar apart from other cultural activists were also present. The function was featured by folk song of Islam Uddin Baiyati and his troupe.
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Patiya Samity honors luminaries, students
Concerted effort for uplift of
Chittagong needed: Navy Chief |
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Chief of Naval Staff Vice Admiral Sarwar Jahan Nizam addressing a reception program as chief guest hosted by Patiya Samity, Chittagong city at the auditorium of Engineers Institution, Chittagong yesterday---Photo People's View |
Staff Correspondent
Chief of Naval Staff Vice Admiral Sarwar Jahan Nizam here on Saturday firmly said that only coordinated efforts from all quarter could bring prosperity of a nation apart from establishing a sound and strong economy.
Urging people from all-walks of life to get united, the Naval chief said that integrated efforts both from public and private sectors could help the nation to reach its goal of development.
The naval chief was addressing a reception program at the auditorium of Engineers Institution, Chittagong as chief guest. Patiya Samity,
Chittagong city hosted the function to honour ten luminaries of Patiya for their significant contributions in different fields.
President of the Samity and eminent industrialist Alhajj Khalilur Rahman presided over the function while Chairman, Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Chittagong Professor Dr. Mohammad Yusuf, UNO of Patiya, Mohammad Sahidul Alam addressed it as special guests. |
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| Pirates loot fishing trawler
at kutubdia 2 held |
Staff Correspondent
A band of pirates looted away one fishing trawler with nets and fishes after critically wounded six fishermen in the sea near Kutubdia channel in the small hours of Saturday.
However Gandamara union Parsihad of Banskhali upazila with the help of locals caught two of the pirates from Barguna and handed them over to police .
According to owners of the fishing trawler nearly 25 pirates who came by an engine boat cordoned the
two fishing trawlers and these crews off in the sea in between Banshkhali and Kutubdia coast..
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| CA dispels any doubt
about year-end polls |
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bdnews24.com Dhaka
In a televised address to the nation to mark the first year of the military-backed interim government, the economist-turned-chief adviser said his administration was also considering lifting the ban on indoor politics across the country.
He said the government would think of relaxing the state of emergency in phases in line with the "necessity and situation".
"I hope the political parties will better use the situation to make them democratic and corruption-free," the head of the government said.
Reaffirming his administration's commitment to a free and fair election, he said that there was "no room for doubt" about the holding of Jatiya Sangsad elections by December 2008.
"If possible, we are determined to hold the elections" well ahead of the December-deadline, he said.
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Delwar demands immediate election
Hafiz terms 1/11 changes milestone |
P View desk
BNP secretary general Khandaker Delwar Hossain Saturday said public misery has aggravated, the economy plunged into disarray and foreign investment gone down under the present caretaker government.
"This is an unelected government. It cannot stay in power for years together as per the constitution. What they are doing has no constitutional sanction," he told reporters at his NAM apartment.
He said the present food deficit might lead to a food crisis in the country.
Commenting on one-year rule of the government, Delwar said although one year has elapsed, election could not be held and people's rights were curbed which is tantamount to violation of human rights.
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| DU RU teachers, students
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P View desk
The agitating teachers and students of Dhaka University will again boycott their classes for two hours today (Sunday) from 11:00 am to press their demand for immediate release of their colleagues, arrested in connection with the August 20-22 campus rioting.
They will also stage cultural demonstrations during class- boycott hours-adding a new dimension to their protests, UNB reports from Dhaka.
The teachers and students boycotted their classes for
two hours from 11 am today (Saturday) to press home their demand.
Campus sources said more than 1,000 students, some of them with their mouths tied with black ribbons and some their foreheads wrapped with red ribbons, paraded the campus in silent processions to press their demand.
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| Finance Adviser swipes
NCB's, private banks |
P View desk
Finance Adviser Dr Mirza Azizul Islam Saturday reprimanded state-owned banks for failing to be more competitive against private-sector ones despite enjoying government facilities.
He also trounced private banks for rent seeking through charging borrowers high rates of interest while giving depositors lower rates of interest, UNB reports from Dhaka.
"You are losing in the competition--you are lagging behind although you have got all the government facilities," the custodian of exchequer of the caretaker government said addressing
the inaugural session of the Zonal Heads Conference of the Agrani Bank at Sheraton Hotel.
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AL to spend Tk 12,48,000
in three Sidr-hit upazilas |
P View desk
Bangladesh Awami League has taken an agriculture rehabilitation programme, involving Tk 12,48,000, to help the farmers of three Sidr-hit upazilas recoup their crop losses.
The upazilas are Golachipa of Patuakhali, Taltali of Barguna and Sharankhola of Bagerhat districts, UNB reports from Dhaka.
A total of 1,860 farmers (6,20 in each upazila) would get assistance under the rehabilitation programme, AL leaders Saturday told journalists at a press briefing at its Dhanmondi office.
They said Golachipa would get Tk 4,33,400, Taltali Tk 3,98,100 and Sharankhola Tk 4,16,500 from the total amount of Tk 12,48,000.
The farmers would be provided with seeds and fertilizers apart from cash for purifying pond water, cultivating fish and rebuilding the damaged betel-leaf fields and poultry farms.
Under the programme, exhibition plots of corn and watermelon would also be set up to popularise the farm produces.
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Pakistani militants were plotting
suicide attacks against army |
AP/UNB, Lahore
A group of Pakistani militants arrested last month were "brainwashed" by radical clerics near the Afghan border and were plotting suicide attacks against military targets, an intelligence official said Saturday.
The six suspects, one of whom is a retired army major with alleged links to al-Qaida, were arrested in December in raids in different parts of eastern Punjab province. The arrests were only
made public this week.
"These people were preparing for suicide attacks against the army," the Pakistani official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
"We found explosives, suicide belts and maps of military installations" in their hideouts, he said.
The suspects, who have yet to be charged, received training and religious instruction in tribal regions close to the Afghan border, the official said. The region is a militant stronghold where top
al-Qaida and Taliban leaders are thought to find haven.
The official said the suspects were "brainwashed" by clerics in the area.
"We learned from them that they wanted to attack the army to avenge the killings of fellow militants," he said. "They were convinced that they would go to paradise after sacrificing their
life."
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| Fighting in
Sri Lanka's
kills 60 |
AP/UNB, Colombo
Government soldiers and Tamil separatists fought a series of gunbattles in Sri Lanka's embattled north, leaving 59 insurgents and one soldier dead, the military said Saturday.
Troops clashed with Tamil Tiger guerrillas on several fronts Friday in Vavuniya district, just south of the
rebels' de facto
state, killing 39 insurgents, a defense ministry official said.
Fighting in Vavuniya also left one soldier dead and 21 wounded, the official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
Separate fighting in nearby Mannar district killed 17 insurgents, while three more rebels died in clashes on the Jaffna peninsula, he said.
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