Tue, 09/01/2009 - 12:34 by harsheeb
Dhaka -- Biman Bangladesh Airlines said a flight from the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, to London was delayed for 10 hours due to clogged toilets.
Airline officials said workers spent two hours Sunday clearing the plane's five toilets, which were clogged with paper cups and other garbage flushed by passengers, and the flight was delayed by a further eight hours to comply with a night flight ban at London's Heathrow Airport, the BBC reported Monday.
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Sun, 07/19/2009 - 11:34 by surajdogra
Dhaka, Bangladesh July 18: Rivers near Dhaka, Bangladesh, are biologically dead and especially toxic during dry seasons, a water resource expert said Saturday.
"The rivers around Dhaka have too little oxygen for the survival of aquatic life," Umme Kulsum Navera, assistant professor of Water Resource Engineering of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, told the news service IRIN.
Oxygen levels increase during the monsoons but not enough to allow for a healthy aquatic environment. Specialists warn the rivers cannot be cleaned.
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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.
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Sat, 06/20/2009 - 14:22 by preet_20
Dhaka, June 20: Bangladesh has expressed confidence that India would do "nothing harmful" on a proposed river dam in Manipur state in north-eastern India, a minister has said.
Dhaka would do "everything possible if the dam proves to be a threat to Bangladesh's environment", Foreign Minister Dipu Moni told reporters Friday.
She said ahead of a visit to the project site by a Bangladeshi parliamentary team, India had sent information to Dhaka acceding to the latter's request.
Media reports here said Dhaka feels that India has been "secretive" about the data of the project and has not taken the lower riparian neighbour into confidence before floating international tenders for the dam's construction.
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Fri, 06/19/2009 - 10:21 by preet_20
Dhaka, June 19: Bangladesh opposition leader and two-time prime minister Khaleda Zia may get her politician son Tarique Rahman to return from Britain to rejuvenate the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), a media report here said Friday.
Tarique, who faces graft charges, had given an understanding that he would quit politics when the previous military-backed caretaker government freed him from jail to go abroad for medical treatment.
However, BNP leaders told a rally here Thursday that he had recovered and would return to resume political work, The Daily Star reported.
Since her poll defeat last December, Zia is reportedly finding it difficult to stop in-fighting among party leaders and wants Tarique's help.
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Wed, 06/10/2009 - 15:25 by IANS
Dhaka, June 10: The European Union (EU) has urged Bangladesh to remove temporary military bases and help re-settle the original Buddhist tribal residents in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, media reports here said Wednesday.
Visiting EU officials Tuesday suggested that Bangladesh implement a treaty it signed in 1997 with regard to the district in the southeastern part of the country, which is the home to 12 minority ethnic groups.
The treaty with tribal leaders was signed by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina during her first tenure (1996-2001).
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Mon, 04/20/2009 - 11:16 by rcrchauhan
Dhaka, April 20 -- Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will leave late Monday for Saudi Arabia on her first foreign visit since she took office in January.
Besides performing the Umrah, she will seek relaxation of restrictions on Saudi Arabia importing Bangladeshi manpower which is a major source of foreign remittances, media reports said.
High on her agenda is to seek Saudi "help" for the trial that her government wants to hold for the "war criminals" - those who collaborated with the erstwhile East Pakistan regime and engaged in murder, rape and loot of unarmed civilians during the 1971 freedom movement.
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Mon, 04/20/2009 - 10:49 by rcrchauhan
Dhaka, Bangladesh April 20 -- India should stop springing "diplomatic surprises" on Bangladesh, a Dhaka newspaper said Monday and added that New Delhi's "aggressive style" since the Awami League government had come to power showed its "assertion of dominance over a neighbouring country".
New Delhi had "embarked on aggressive diplomacy to pursue its interests" ever since Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina took office, English language New Age daily said in an editorial Monday.
Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon's April 12-13 visit was considered to be a 'surprise' during which the official had a one-to-one talk with Hasina. He reportedly warned her that there could be an attempt to kill her.
Both governments remained silent on the visit's outcome and Dhaka followed up the warning by stepping up security for Hasina and her political associates.
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Sun, 04/19/2009 - 11:45 by rcrchauhan
Dhaka, April 19 -- Security for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been stepped up following a warning by India that there could be an attempt to kill her.
Senior political leaders were also covered under the new security beef-up, but media reports quoting Home Minister Sahara Khatun did not elaborate on this aspect.
The warning came from Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon who met Hasina during what was widely reported as "a surprise visit".
Dhaka made no announcement, but confirmed the new measures after an Indian newspaper report.
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Fri, 04/17/2009 - 10:41 by rcrchauhan
Dhaka, Bangladesh pril 17 -- A Bangladesh court has indicted Mufti Abdul Hannan, leader of the banned Islamist outfit Harkatul Jihad Islami (Huji), and 13 others for causing the 2001 blast at a city rally that killed 10 and injured scores of people.
The blast occurred in 2001 at Dhaka's Ramna Batamul area during Pahela Baisakh, the Bengali New Year celebration.
Metropolitan Sessions Judge A.N.M. Bashir Ullah Thursday rejected the discharge petitions submitted by the counsels for Hannan and five others and framed charges against all 14 accused.
Five of the accused produced before the court amid tight security pleaded not guilty after the charges brought against them were read out, The Daily Star said Friday.
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Thu, 04/16/2009 - 10:42 by rcrchauhan
Dhaka, April 16 -- Jamaat-e-Islami, Bangladesh's largest Islamist party, has launched a campaign to counter the Sheikh Hasina government's move to try "war criminals".
Those who collaborated with the erstwhile East Pakistan regime in 1971 are referred to as "war criminals".
Terming the government move "anti-Islamic", the Jamaat distributed booklets and leaflets across the country claiming its party's top leaders were "innocent of any war crimes", The Daily Star said Thursday.
The Sheikh Hasina government has responded to the distribution of the booklets by arresting the Jamaat workers, at least one of whom is a government servant who is barred from engaging in political activity.
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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.
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