Former Bangladesh premier to challenge eviction notice

August 14th, 2009 DHAKA - A speeding bus hit a tree and crashed into a canal in Bangladesh, killing at least 13 people and injuring 10, reports said here today. The accident occurred in Feni, a town 80 miles east of Dhaka, United News of Bangladesh said.

July 14th, 2009 KOLKATA - India has proposed to Bangladesh joint border patrolling along the international boundary, the Border Security Force (BSF) chief said here Tuesday. "We've given a draft proposal to our counterpart Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) for carrying out coordinated border patrolling activities along the Indo-Bangladesh border.

July 3rd, 2009 CHENNAI - The Tamil Nadu Assembly Friday saw a heated debate when Congress Legislature Party leader D. Sudharsanam threatened to protest outside the house of Minister Suba Thangavelan over the plight of slum dwellers who face eviction.

June 12th, 2009 Barricaded man's body found in burned SoCal homeCAMARILLO, Calif. — Officials have found a man's body inside a mobile home in Southern California that burned after sheriff's deputies tried to serve a restraining order and an eviction notice.

May 8th, 2009 DHAKA - The European Union Thursday stressed the need for better parliamentary partnership between Bangladesh's ruling and opposition parties for a healthy growth of the country's nascent democracy. 'Discussions, debates and critical analyses of the problems should be there [in parliament] in a healthy democracy,' Stefan Frowein, the head of the delegation of the EU's executive, the European Commission to Dhaka, told a press conference in Dhaka.

May 4th, 2009 DHAKA - Bangladesh opposition leader Khaleda Zia has got a reprieve from being evicted from her house after the government told a court that she would not have to vacate while her petition over the matter was pending. Zia will not be evicted while her petition is pending, the government assured the High Court, which fixed May 10 for the next hearing, media reports said Monday.

May 3rd, 2009 DHAKA - The US government believes that Islamist militancy is still a major concern in Bangladesh, the US ambassador in Dhaka said Sunday. 'We do have disturbing indications.

April 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bangladesh Air Force chief Air Marshal S.M. Ziaur Rehman arrived here Thursday on a five-day official visit to India.

April 22nd, 2009 DHAKA - Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has demanded that the Sheikh Hasina government secure a court order before enforcing a notice to evict their chief and former prime minister Khaleda Zia from her Dhaka cantonment residence. One of Zia's aides demanded that the government secure a court order before evicting her from her residence for which a 15 day notice was served last Sunday.

April 21st, 2009 DHAKA - Bangladesh's opposition leader and former prime minister Khaleda Zia has been given 15 days to leave her home, in which she has lived since the early 1980s, or face eviction. Her Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has reacted in anger to the eviction notice and vowed to step up its protest rallies against the action of the Sheikh Hasina government.

April 14th, 2009 DHAKA - 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.

March 14th, 2009 DHAKA - Bangladesh will launch Dugdugi TV, a channel exclusively for children, April 14 on Pahela Baishakh that marks the beginning of the Bengali year. 'Movies and special programmes for children will form the mainstay of the channel.

March 10th, 2009 KARACHI - Pakistan may play a shortened cricket series in Bangladesh later this season because of rescheduling problems. According to sources, there is a possibility that the one-day series between Pakistan and Bangladesh which was originally supposed to have five one-day internationals and two Twenty20s might be compressed to just three ODIs and a solitary T20 game.

February 5th, 2009 PANAJI - Shah Rukh Khan's Kolkata Knight Riders snapped up Bangladesh fast bowler Mashrafe Mortaza for a whopping $600,000 after an intense round of bidding, and the longest in the auction of players for the Indian Premier League (IPL), against Preity Zinta's Kings XI Punjab here Friday. Mortaza's base price was $50,000 and Knight Riders were the first to take the call before Preity pitched in aggressively in what turned out to be a virtual war between two Bollywood stars that continued for 20 minutes.

January 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India is ready to look at lowering further the number of items in the negative list for trade with least developed countries (LDCs) such as Bangladesh, a senior commerce ministry official said here Friday. 'We have already reduced the negative list from 765 to 480 items.