NYC hot dog vendor evicted from prize spot outside museum over whopping rent billAugust 8th, 2009 NYC hot dog vendor evicted over whopping rent billNEW YORK —Homeowners aren't the only ones in hot water over overpriced real estate. A New York City hot dog vendor has been evicted from his prize spot outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art because he couldn't pay a whopping rent bill of nearly $54,000 a month.
Chargesheet filed against Khaleda Zia in orphanage fund graft caseAugust 6th, 2009 DHAKA - The Bangladesh Anti Corruption Commission has pressed charges against opposition leader and Chairperson of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Khaleda Zia, her son Tarique Rahman and four others for embezzlement of Tk 2.10 crore by forming the fraudulent Zia Orphanage Trust. This is the first move by an anti-graft body against high profile graft suspects since the Awami League-led grand alliance came to power last year.
Miami Beach owner of celebrity rooster fined; Mr. Clucky may soon be evicted from condoJuly 31st, 2009 Mr. Clucky may be evicted from owner's Fla. condoMIAMI BEACH, Fla.
Khaleda to get son Tarique to rebuild BNPJune 19th, 2009 DHAKA - 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.
Graft cases against Hasina, Zia being reviewedMay 11th, 2009 DHAKA - While Bangladesh's courts hear the government recommendation that 11 cases against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina be dropped, a senior law officer Monday began scrutiny of documents relating to 20 graft cases against opposition leader Khaleda Zia and her family. The cases were instituted by the military-backed caretaker government that ruled the country 2007-08.
Zia not to be evicted while case is heardMay 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.
BNP wants Dhaka to get court order for Zia's evictionApril 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.
Former Bangladesh PM Zia told to quit home within 15 daysApril 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.
Zia threatens agitation over loss of homeApril 10th, 2009 DHAKA - 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.
Hasina asks Zia to quit residenceApril 2nd, 2009 DHAKA - Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked former premier Khaleda Zia to quit the residence that was allotted to her in violation of rules. The move could trigger opposition protests.
Hasina wants white paper on corruption during Zia's termFebruary 11th, 2009 DHAKA - Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina wants a white paper published on corruption during the 2001-06 tenure of her main political rival Khaleda Zia. 'Of course, the white papers should be published,' Hasina told Parliament Wednesday amid thumping of desks by the treasury bench lawmakers.
Bangladesh parliament elects new presiding officersJanuary 24th, 2009 DHAKA - Bangladesh's ninth Jatiya Sangsad or parliament had a formal start Sunday as it unanimousloy elected a lawyer and a former soldier as its presiding officers. Advocate Abdul Hamid is speaker and Col (retd) Shawkat Ali is deputy speaker for the house that has to transact massive lawmaking business, the UNB news agency reported.
Zia criticises Hasina as she is being sworn in as PMJanuary 6th, 2009 DHAKA - Former Bangladesh prime minister Khaleda Zia launched a broadside against her political rival and now prime minister Sheikh Hasina even as the swearing-in ceremony was being conducted, accusing her of 'killing, snatching and criminal activities'. Upset at the post-poll violence that left one dead and several injured across the country, Zia visited the family of one of those allegedly attacked in the national capital Tuesday evening while the the swearing-in ceremony was being conducted in Bangabhavan, the presidential palace.
CA mulling lifting Mexican wave ban at MCGDecember 27th, 2008 MELBOURNE - Cricket Australia (CA) is now trying to remove the ban at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) on the Mexican wave, which was outlawed almost six years ago. The wave returned to the MCG in all its glory, with unruly cricket-spectators ignoring the ban during the first two days of the Test.
Hasina, Zia take pot-shots over alleged plots to kill themDecember 24th, 2008 DHAKA - Two former prime ministers, Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia, are taking pot-shots at each other over alleged plots to assassinate them in the final campaign lap for Bangladesh's parliamentary poll, scheduled Dec 29. The government has categorically denied any security threat to them.
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