| ACC files two graft cases
against CPA official, wife |
Anti Corruption Commission (ACC), Chittagong divisional wing, on Tuesday filed two graft cases against detained Chief Hydrographer of Chittagong Port Habibur Rahman Khan and his wife on charge of ill getting money beyond the source of income and concealing wealth in the submission of statement.
Deputy Director of the ACC, Chittagong wing, Abul Kalam Azad filed the cases with Double-mooring police station this afternoon.
Habibur Rahman Khan earlier was arrested with four others high port officials by the joint forces and later put on temporary suspension. |
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| Muggers chop one to death
at Zakir Hossain road |
Staff Correspondent
Muggers reportedly chopped one contractor to death near USTC at city's Jakir Hossain road on Tuesday night.
The dead was identified as Kazi Mohammad Jafar Hossain alias Roman, (44) son of Kazi Fazlul Islam and a resident of city's Halishahar -B block.
Forkan, younger brother of the victim told The Daily People's View that they have come to Chittagong Medical College Hospital to receive the information that he had been admitted there.
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| 3 fake car traders held
from Sholakbahar |
Staff Correspondent
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) -7 in a drive at city's Sholakbahar area under Panchlaish police station Tuesday afternoon detained three members of fake car traders.
The detainees were identified as Mohammed Alamgir, owner of Saf & F International of Sholakbahar area, Mohammed Shohel, son of Saiful Islam of Debarpar area under Khulshi police station and Shahajada Al Mamun, son of AKM Fazlul Haque under city's Agrabad Residential area.
A squad of RAB-7 yesterday detained three swindlers Alamgir Khan, (Right), Mamun and Sohel, in the port city.
The RAB sources said that acting on a tip-off, a squad of the RAB-7 conducted a raid at city's Sholokbahar area at about 1:00 p.m. and detained three members of the fake car traders from a house named Matrinir.
The detainees confessed to the RAB that they had been releasing imported cars from Chittagong port submitting fake documents of shipping agents depriving the customs and other concerned departments of the revenue . |
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National News |
| EC secretariat free |
The interim cabinet Tuesday approved an ordinance to free the Election Commission Secretariat from the grips of any ministry, division or department, a government spokesman said. The cabinet also gave financial freedom to the Secretariat burying a long practice of seeking approval for funds from the government to conduct its activities, the chief adviser's press secretary Syed Fahim Munaim told reporters after a meeting of the cabinet. 
"From now on the Election Commission Secretariat is free from ministries, divisions and departments," Munaim said referring to the decisions of the meeting, which took place at the Chief Adviser's Office. Chief adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed chaired the meeting where all 10 advisers and five special assistants to the CA were present, he said. Earlier in June, the cabinet had in principle approved a draft proposal to ensure independence of the Secretariat.
Munaim said the ordinance would be signed into a law soon. |
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CA asks WB to come with bigger
package for infrastructure Dev |
P View Desk
Chief Adviser Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed Tuesday hoped that the World Bank would come up with bigger package for long-term permanent infrastructure development in Bangladesh, including rebuilding the cyclone 'Sidr'-hit areas. The head of caretaker government expressed the optimism when visiting World Bank Vice-President Praful C Patel called on him at the CA's office and discussed various socioeconomic issues, UNB reports from Dhaka.
Praful C Patel, Vice President of World Bank called on Chief Adviser Dr. Fakruddin Ahmed at the latter's office on Tuesday. Photo: Focus Bangla
Dr Fakhruddin thanked the multilateral funding agency for its announcement on Monday to provide 100 million US dollars in budgetary support to Bangladesh, particularly for rehabilitation works in the aftermath of the super- cyclone Sidr.
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| Cases against Sheikh
Hasina politically
motivated : Akhavan |
P View Desk
Canadian lawyer Prof Dr Payam Akhavan Tuesday said the cases filed against detained former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina appear to have political motivation to detach her from future politics and elections.
Addressing a press briefing at Hotel Sonargaon, Prof Payam, appointed international counsel for Hasina by her family, observed there is a question in every one's mind as to how a reported event dated back eight years could be brought under Emergency Powers Rules, UNB reports from Dhaka.
He found Azam J Chowdhury's case against Hasina based on a single piece of evidence of confessional statement made by
detained Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim. "But everyone knows that Selim was tortured and intimidated to make the confession," he contended.
Prof Payam, who arrived here Monday to defend the Awami League president in a makeshift court, said Hasina should be given open and public hearing as she has not yet been convicted. He contended that before convictions Hasina has been kept detained only to detach her from having any role in next elections.
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Final state of the union address
Bush seeks support
on economy, Iraq |
AP/UNB, Washington
President George W. Bush, standing before Congress one last time, urged Americans to stand confident against gnawing recession fears and be patient with the grinding war in Iraq..jpg)
President Bush delivers his State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress, Monday Jan. 28, 2008, on Capitol in Washington as Vice President Dick Cheney and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi listen. AP Photo
Bush delivered his final State of the Union address Monday night before a hostile, Democratic-led Congress eager for the end of his term next January. With his approval rating near its all-time low, the president lacked the political muscle to push bold ideas, and he did not try. The one possible exception was the economy. He urged lawmakers to approve urgently a $150 billion (euro101.7 billion) plan to stave off a recession through tax rebates - negotiated with Democratic and Republican lawmakers - for families and incentives for businesses to invest in new plants and equipment. "As we meet tonight, our economy is undergoing a period of uncertainty," Bush said. "And at kitchen tables across our country there is concern about our economic future." Since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, the war has been a main topic of Bush's annual addresses to Congress. He said the buildup of 30,000 U.S. troops and an increase in Iraqi forces "have achieved results few of us could have imagined just one year ago." "Some may deny the surge is working," Bush said, "but among the terrorists there is no doubt. Al-Qaida is on the run in Iraq, and this enemy will be defeated."
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Gangs torch slums in city
Opposition lawmaker
killed in Nairobi |
AP/UNB, Kisumu
Gunmen killed an opposition lawmaker in Nairobi early Tuesday, an attack that almost immediately stoked the ethnic fighting that has gripped Kenya since last month's disputed presidential election. As with the gangs that have killed rivals and torched homes in western Kenya, groups of armed youths began gathering after the shooting in the capital's Mathare and Kibera slums. Since the Dec. 27 election, the death toll has soared over 800. Two gunmen shot opposition lawmaker Mugabe Were as he drove to his house in suburban Nairobi, police said, adding they did not yet know if the political turmoil had motivated the slaying..jpg)
Opposition supporters shout at police officers outside the house of slain opposition lawmaker Mugabe Were, in Nairobi, Kenya, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2008. Gunmen killed an opposition lawmaker in Nairobi early Tuesday, an attack that almost immediately stoked the ethnic fighting that has gripped Kenya since last month's disputed presidential election. AP Photo
"We are treating it as a murder but we are not ruling out anything, including political motives," Kenyan police spokesman Eric Kiraithe said. "We are urging everyone to remain calm." In the town of Naivasha, shots were fired from two helicopters on a crowd of looters and protesters. Crowds set fire to homes and thousands of looters smashed shop windows in the town. Five police officers fired into the air but were unable to control the mob of about 5,000. Naivasha's police chief tried to calm the crowd, but was pelted with stones and fled in his car. The two helicopters, apparently piloted by police, then flew over the crowd and opened fire, sending people running in panic. Tension was building up in the capital after the lawmaker's killing.
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