| No case of bird flu attack
in chicken yet detected |
Samir Kanti Barua
Though virus of bird flu has been detected in dead crow in the port city but there is so far no case of virus of avian influenza found in any chicken, eggs or any kind of fowl either in city or district till to date, official sources confirmed .
The detection of bird flue virus in dead crows prompted district administration, Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) and district livestock office put the city and district on maximum alert. District administration and other concerned departments in the backdrop of detection of virus in crow held a series of meeting since Friday night and have beefed up intensive awareness raising campaign and tightened the precautionary measures in the city and upazilas of the district. "We have taken up foolproof precautionary measures in overall district to detect any sort of such virus "Deputy Commissioner (DC) Ashraf Shamim told The Daily People's View on Saturday night.
"Bird flu has been found in a crow, but the virus has not been found in any chicken or eggs anywhere in the district," DC asserted. |
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Biman’s flight schedule debacle
624 passengers stranded
at CSIA for 25 hours |
Staff Correspondent
Six hundred and twenty four middle east bound passengers remained stranded for in all more than 25 hours since Friday night at Chittagong Shah Amanat International Air Port (CSIA) for want of national flag carrier Bangladesh Biman and debacle in flight schedules.
Though one of the flight has left CSIA at around 10:00 am on Saturday after nearly ten hours delay but sufferings and wait of the another batch of 312 international passengers including 107 from Chittagong never ends as their journey is still uncertain amidst wintry weather after rescheduling the fights for four times
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Low income groups worst sufferers
Exorbitant price hike of essentials |
Mahamudul Hasan
Fixed and limited income consumers in the port city and its outskirts are being faced enormous difficulties in their daily life mainly due to the upward trend of prices of essentials.
During visits at city's different kitchen markets including Meena Bazaar, Kazir Dewri and Karnophuli Complex, yesterday this correspondent found that prices of almost all essentials including powdered milk, edible oil, flour (Ata) and rice are still high.
Different consumers at the kitchen markets alleged that they could not bear the daily expenditures according to their income because of continued price hike of the daily essentials. |
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National News |
| Cabinet meets
in Rangpur |
P View Desk
The Council Advisers at its first meeting here today (Saturday) gave a nod to the caretaker government's 14-point programme for the rapid socioeconomic development of the country's northern region, especially Rangpur, report UNB from Rangpur.
The programmes include close and round-the-clock supervision for ensuring the Boro production in the coming season, formation of a committee headed by an Adviser to resolve Monga problem, setting up of a full-fledged university in Rangpur, activating the airports of the region and taking measures to export more manpower from there
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| Hasina likely to be indicted
in another case today |
bdnews24.com Dhaka
A Dhaka court is likely to indict former prime minister Sheikh Hasina Sunday in the barge-mounted power plants case. 
Dhaka Metropolitan senior special judge Md Azizul Haque on Jan 28 transferred the case to the Special Judges' Court-1 set up on the defunct Sangsad Bhaban premises for trial.
"The indictment is supposed to be held [Sunday], but as we could not prepare for not receiving any documents, we will appeal to the court to defer the date," Hasina's lawyer Syed Rezaur Rahman said to bdnews24.com.
The other accused persons are former power secretary, Toufique-e-Elahi Chowdhury, former chairman of Power Development
Board Nuruddin Mahmud Kamal, Summit Group directors Md Aziz Khan and Farid Khan, United Group directors Hasan Mahmud Raja and Abul Kalam Azad and curator of Bangabandhu Memorial Museum Syed Siddikur Rahman.
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Major repairs on Bakhrabad-Demra gas line
Gas supply to major part of capital
remains suspended for two days |
P View Desk
Gas supply to a major part of Dhaka city will remain partially suspended for at least 48 hours from midnight Sunday night for a major repair on the main gas-transmission line at Daudkandi in Commilla.
For the temporary closure of gas supply, about a third of the capital city, particularly the southeastern part, will be directly affected as people of the area will have to use alternative sources of energy for cooking and other purposes, UNB reports from Dhaka.
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| NASA honors 7 who
died aboard shuttle
Columbia 5 years ago |
AP/UNB, Florida
Space officials, schoolchildren and family of astronauts lost when the Columbia shuttle exploded while returning from space five years ago gathered to remember the seven crew members, including astronauts from India and Israel, who died. Evelyn Husband-Thompson noted that Friday's sunrise was just as beautiful as it was the morning of Feb. 1, 2003,.jpg) when she awaited the homecoming of Columbia and her husband, Rick, its commander. Columbia never made it back from its science mission. Its wing gashed by a chunk of fuel tank foam insulation at liftoff 16 days earlier, the spaceship shattered high above Texas just minutes from home."This morning, I couldn't stop thinking about Rick and Willie and Kalpana and Dave and Mike and Laurel and Ilan," said Husband-Thompson, naming each of the Columbia crew. "All of our families went through so much that day. We so miss them, and we will never forget them." NASA's top spaceflight officials joined Husband-Thompson, who remarried just three weeks ago, her two children and nearly 200 others at the Kennedy Space Center's outdoor astronaut memorial. Each guest received a long-stemmed rose; the flowers were placed in the grating in front of the giant shiny granite marker bearing the names of all NASA's 24 astronauts killed in the line of duty.
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Bomb hits bus in central Sri Lanka,
killing at least 20 wounding 50 |
AP/UNB, Colombo
A bomb tore through a packed bus carrying civilians Saturday in central Sri Lanka, killing 20 people and wounding 50 others, the military said. The blast inside the bus occurred at 7 a.m. in Dambulla, a town about 150 kilometers (90 miles) northeast of the capital, Colombo, said military spokesman Brig. Udaya Nanayakkara, blaming separatist Tamil Tiger rebels.
The bus - traveling to the north-central town of Anuradhapura -was stopped in Dambulla when the attack occurred, Nanayakkara said.
Spokesmen for the rebels could not immediately be reached for comment. But the group, listed as a terror organization by the U.S.
and European Union, routinely denies responsibility for such attacks.
Violence has intensified on this Indian Ocean island and more than 700 have been killed after the government withdrew from a cease-fire with Tamil rebels last month.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa's spokesman condemned Saturday's attack.
"They (the rebels) are targeting innocent civilians as they are facing defeats in the battle front," said Chandrapala Liyanage.
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