Feasibility study yet to begin on
power plant project in Rakhaine |
P View desk
The Myanmar government is yet to give clearance to a planned visit by a Bangladesh expert team to its Rakhaine State to explore the potentials for the proposed hydropower plant project.
The visit was designed by the Power Ministry as a follow-up move of the previous visit of a high-profile delegation that visited Myanmar to explore the potentials for setting up a hydropower plant there and importing electricity to Bangladesh, UNB reports from Dhaka.
Power Secretary Dr M Fouzul Kabir Khan had led that delegation while the chairman of Power Development Board (PDB), the managing director of Power Grid Company of Bangladesh (PGCB) and Bangladesh Ambassador to Myanmar were the members of his team. |
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Chittagong Customs House
announces citizens’ charter |
Roudro Moin
Chittagong Customs House (CCH), import wing, has finally announced citizen's charter on Wednesday with a view to provide better services to its stakeholders.
The 36-pages citizen charter specified the responsibility of officials and described clearly how the import related works will be handled, Customs Commissioner (Import) Nasir Uddin told the reporters yesterday.
Through the announcement of 'citizen charter', all activities related to import will be handled quickly. Clients will be able to finish their desired task within shortest period and without any hassle, following announced 'citizen charter'. Import wing of
Chittagong Customs House (CCH) announced the 'citizen charter' for the first time in Chittagong. No public office did formally announce 'citizen charter' earlier...
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Bandarban takes festive look
Rajpunyah begins today |
Correspondent, Bandarban
The five-day Bomang Rajpunyah, a century-old festival began at hill district Bandarban yesterday.
The hill town Bandarban wore a festive look with the strolling of festival-loving people of hilly areas. The town turned into a place of huge crowd soon after the fomal inauguration of the ceremony.
All hotels and rest houses have already been booked, officials of the hotel and rest houses said.
It is also known as a ceremony just ahead of annual royal tax realization ceremony (Punnya) of Bomang Raja. |
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Work together for sustainable
peace, development : Devashis |
SHANTIMOY CHAKMA, Rangamati
Speakers at an views exchange meeting here yesterday have given their opinions on different issues like save the Kaptai Lake from pollution, rapidly resealing water of Kaptai Lake so that marginal farmers can cultivate their fringe lands, solution of problems of traditional leaders of headmen and karbaries through ensuring logistic supports and resume of TR (test relief) program for the flood and rats flood-hit people in the interior areas of CHT. They urged the government for ensure balanced development for the people of all communities in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. They said, the people of CHT, both Bangali and indigenous have been depriving from the balanced upliftment activities for long.
Speakers underlined the need for smooth coordination between different government development bodies and said that almost often development activity
are being hampered due to lack of mutual collaboration amongst the local bodies, they opted.
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| All DU students
walk to feedom |
bdnews24.com Dhaka
All eight Dhaka University students detained in connection with the August campus unrest were freed from jail Wednesday.
Manobendro Dev, Jahidul Islam Biplob, Rafiqul Islam Shujan, Deen Islam and Deen Islam Angel-walked out of jail at 11:15 am after getting bail in the case filed against them for setting fire to an army vehicle during the August 2007 campus unrest at Dhaka University.
Liton Mahmud and Moniruzzaman Sardar were freed around 4.00pm. Asaduzzaman was the eighth student to leave Dhaka Central Jail shortly after 6.00pm.
Liton Mahmud was exempted from the case No 51. Moniruzzaman was acquitted by the court Monday from the case No 54. |
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| Redrawing constituencies
not to defer polls: CEC |
 No hurdle whatsoever will deter or defer elections and none will able to question the validity of the voter lists, said the chief election commissioner Wednesday.
Registering himself and his wife as voters in Gulshan, CEC ATM Shamsul Huda said: "A free and fair election using a flawless voter list is our goal."
Asked whether the Election Commission was likely to face troublesome lawsuits over redefining the electoral
constituencies-as had happened in the past-Huda said: "We don't believe so."
"We have in any case worked out an alternative plan in case lawsuits do crop up in this connection."
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Dr. Anwar tells solidarity meeting
Army not opponent to
students, teachers people |
P View desk
Professor Dr Anwar Hossain, one of the four Dhaka University teachers released Wednesday after five-month detention, brought a sweeping allegation that a small section of security-men created the reign of 'scare'.
" Bangladesh army is not opponent of the country's students, teachers and other people. This army was born through the glorious liberation war in 1971. But a small section of army-men is trying to stand us against the whole army as opponents…," Prof. Anwar told his audience at a gathering, UNB reports from Dhaka.
The outspoken DU teacher was addressing the student-teacher solidarity meeting at the foot of Aparajeya Bangla in the morning marking the release of the DU teachers and students.
Five of the released DU students and their parents, and wives and children of the released teachers also joined the solidarity meeting.
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| Bangladesh should insert trade in
services into SAFTA to get benefit |
P View desk
Bangladesh has to get trade in services and investments interpolated into the existing South Asian Free Trade
Agreements (SAFTA) deal to properly derive benefit from it, economists opined about the regional trading bloc that is yet to find an effective takeoff.
"Bangladesh can't hope for too much gain from the existing SAFTA treaty to enhance its growth opportunities merely by promoting exports to the regional market," executive director of SANEM Dr Selim Raihan told a regional seminar Wednesday, UNB reports from Dhaka.
South Asian Network on Economic Modeling (SANEM), CUTS International, India, and Commonwealth Secretariat, London, jointly organized the seminar titled 'SAFTA and Its Implications for the Member Countries' at BRAC Inn with CPD Chairman Prof Rehman Sobhan in the chair.
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| Retired generals urge Musharraf to step down |
AP/UNB, Islamabad
Dozens of retired generals, admirals and air marshals urged Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf to immediately step down, saying his resignation would promote democracy and help combat religious militancy, a member of the grouping said Wednesday.
"This is in the supreme national interest and it makes it incumbent on him to step down," said a statement released late Tuesday to the media after a meeting of the Pakistan Ex-Servicemen's Society attended by more than 100 former generals and other retired officers and enlisted men from all three services.
The call came as Musharraf, a top U.S. ally in its war on terrorism, was in Europe on a tour aimed at reassuring Western leaders about his ability to restore democracy and prevail in the escalating combat between government troops and Taliban rebels along Pakistan's mountainous border with Afghanistan.
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Contesting in Iran's parliamentary Elections
3,000 reformers disqualified |
AP/UNB, Tehran
About 3,000 prospective candidates, most of them reformists seeking democratic changes within Iran's hard-line ruling Islamic establishment, were disqualified from running in the upcoming parliamentary elections, officials and party leaders said Wednesday. The mass disqualification of reformist candidates removes the biggest rival to hard-liners - including those allied with embattled President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - vying for the parliament seats in the crucial March 14 election. Out of an initial 7,200 prospective candidates registered, some 4,200 remain in the running and must still be vetted by the Islamic regime.
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