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Stop building Tipaimukh dam, Zia writes to Manmohan Singh

Tue, 06/23/2009 - 12:12 by preet_20

Dhaka, June 23: Bangladesh's main opposition leader Khaleda Zia has written a letter to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh demanding that India should stop building the Tipaimukh dam in its north-eastern region.

The Tipaimukh dam on the Barak river is in India's Manipur state.

Zia dispatched the letter Monday, The Daily Star newspaper said. The letter was sent a day after India said that it had 'consulted' Bangladesh on the project and would not do anything to harm the environment of the region.

Details of Zia's letter to Singh were not released. The two last met in March 2006, when Zia was the Bangladesh prime minister.

Khaleda Zia may be evicted from her home

Tue, 04/14/2009 - 12:12 by rcrchauhan

Dhaka, April 14 -- Political confrontation is building up in Bangladesh as the government prepares to issue a notice this week to opposition leader Khaleda Zia asking her to vacate her house within a stipulated time.

A notice to be issued by the defence ministry is now under process. Zia will be requested to leave the house within a specific period of time, Law Minister Shafique Ahmed said Monday.

If Zia does not leave the house as per terms of the notice, "then the law will take its own course", Ahmed told media.

Zia has been living in the house located within the Dhaka Cantonment since 1981. It was allotted to her after her husband, then president Ziaur Rahman, was assassinated in a military putsch.

Zia threatens agitation over loss of home

Fri, 04/10/2009 - 12:20 by rcrchauhan

Dhaka, April 10 -- Bangladesh opposition leader Khaleda Zia has threatened to launch an agitation after the Sheikh Hasina government cancelled the lease of a house she has lived in for the last 28 years.

A protest rally and procession was held in the national capital where leaders of Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) said they were "prepared to go to the people" on the issue.

The government cancelled the lease of Zia's house in Dhaka Cantonment earlier this week.

Hasina told parliament last week that there were "numerous anomalies" in the way Zia had wrested the allotment and urged her to move out of the home.

Zia has denied any wrongdoing and said she would seek legal recourse.