Volume 4 Number 188 Thu. December 04, 2003    
 
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Govt plans to crush street agitation
Reshuffle in police, cases against opposition leaders in pipeline
The government is planning crackdown on street demonstrations by the opposition, a home ministry official said.
 
Stock market upswing
Trading of 16 firms suspended
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) yesterday suspended trading of 16 companies with weak fundamentals following an abnormal surge in their share prices.
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Cops to change colour for credibility
Police will soon shrug off the all too familiar blue shirt and khaki trousers -- one of the last vestiges of the old colonial era -- and switch to a light grey shirt and navy blue trousers from next month.
 
Disparate agendas hold back plan for opposition unity
Opposition political parties are discussing a raft of points to fashion a unity, but key ideological and policy issues are holding back their plans for the launch of a unified anti-government movement.
 
Firms catch clients on DoE premises
Representatives of some environment-related consulting firms have set up shop in a first-floor reception room at the Department of Environment (DoE) Dhaka office from where they solicit business.
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Dr Kamal eyes unity for anti-govt movement in Jan
Gono Forum President Dr Kamal Hossain yesterday called for a broad unity ahead of a programme to be set against the government in January to press it to cut corruption and violence.
 
Jail Killing Case
Four special prosecutors appointed
The government has appointed four special public prosecutors (SPPs) to conduct the trial in the historic Jail Killing Case.
 
Sircar-Siddiqui rift on despite Khaleda's Rx
Three days after a prime ministerial intervention to clear the bad blood between the speaker and his deputy, no rapprochement seems to take hold.
 
AI urges PM to probe 'torture' of Nuruzzaman
The Amnesty International (AI) yesterday appealed to the prime minister to probe the alleged torture on a Srimongol businessman at a local police station on November 20.
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Hallmarks of neglect


 
Two more roads go rickshaw-free in January
Two city roads will be made off-limits to rickshaws and other non-motorised vehicles from January 1.
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Violence, calamity push disabled numbers high
World Disability Day observed
Violence, road accident and natural calamity, not malnutrition, are pushing up the number of disabled people in the country, a discussion in the city observed yesterday.
 
Rare animals seized in Bandarban
A pair of long-tailed binturong, a critically endangered mamal species, was seized from the house of an indigenous family in Bandarban town on Tuesday morning.
 
Ctg Victory Day events on course for conflict
Political parties plan same programmes at same venue
A row between ruling BNP and Awami League (AL) and some left leaning political parties has made the holding of Victory Day celebration programmes in the port city uncertain as both blocs announced similar
 
PM orders EPZ in Ishwardi for agro-based industries
Prime Minister Khaleda Zia yesterday directed authorities to develop an export processing zone (EPZ) at Ishwardi exclusively for agro-based industries.
 
Railway demolishes 200 illegal shanties in Chittagong
The railway authorities yesterday demolished over 200 shanties and shops of a slum near the Chittagong Railway Station at West Madarbari in Doublemooring.
 
Haunted at home
Males of 200 families in Habiganj hiding to evade arrest on 'false' charges
Some 200 families of Shibpasha village in Habiganj district were attacked by local goons on the Eid day and their males have fled home since then to evade arrest having been 'framed' in cases.
 
Mahi, Babar squabble on Biman flight
BNP lawmaker Mahi B Chowdhury and State Minister for Home Lutfozzaman Babar Monday exchanged verbal salvo on a Biman flight back home from Bangkok.
 
Home ministry rejoinder to UNB report
The home ministry in a rejoinder on a UNB report run by The Daily Star headlined "Govt probing third force links to arms cache recovery", which other newspapers also carried on December 1, dismissed that
 
BDR thwarts push-in bid
Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) on Tuesday night pushed back four Indian nationals at Barokhata border with India in Hatibandha upazila.
 
Subsidies, non-tariff barriers slated
Sixth Asia-Pacific Employers' Conference ends
The Sixth Asia-Pacific Employers' Conference slated the continuation of subsidies and non-tariff barriers in some of the developed countries that goes against the very concept of globalisation.
 
No headway in Badda arms haul case yet
Police failed to make any headway in the Kuril Badda arms haul case four days after the incident.
 
Lentil, soyabean oil prices up, onion fall
Prices of some essentials went up slightly early this week, while those of most others declined.
 
College teachers' tendons severed
Unidentified assailants severed tendons of both legs of a teacher of Gopalganj Bangabandhu College at his Bankpara residence at 9:30am yesterday.
 
Rajshahi college ransacked
Students of Bangabandhu Degree College at Bhadra yesterday vandalised some rooms of the college and set fire to furniture in the afternoon.
 
80-yr-old woman killed in arson attack in Bhola
Tarufa Begum, an 80-year-old woman was burned to death in an arson attack at Char Ananda in Bhola Sadar upazila in the early hours of yesterday.
 

 
   
 
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