ALTAB ALI Park London E1 Public meeting on Tipaimukh dam threat 3 PM Sunday 2 August 2009
Sunday, 2 August 2009
ALTAB ALI Park London E1 Public meeting on Tipaimukh dam threat 3 PM Sunday 2 August 2009
ALTAB ALI PARK Whitechapel Road London E1 TIPAIMUKH dam 3 PM Sunday 2 August 2009
ALTAB ALI PARK
Whitechapel Road
London E1
TIPAIMUKH dam
3 PM Sunday
2 August 2009
Another strange event occurs surrounding attempted visit of Tipaimukh dam site by a group of Bangladeshi politicians
IRB man kills colleague, shoots himself to death
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, August 01 2009: An IRB man posting in interior Churachnadpur district shot dead his two colleagues before committing suicide early Saturday, official report here said.
The incident occurred at an IB (Inspection Bungalow) located at Parbung where the purpose site for construction of Tipaimukh dam located this morning at around 7 am.
Personnel of the 1st IRB are guarding the IB, official source added.
Details reports of the incident could not be available immediately as the place of occurrence located in the interior part of the district where there is bad communication.
A team of from Churachandpur district headquarters has rushed to the spot.
The team likely to reach the area late to night out or next morning, a police officer here said when contacted.
However, he said the IRB personnel were posting there in connection with the visit of the 10-member all-party delegation of parliamentarians of Bangladesh who came to study the impact of the Tipaimukh dam at the project.
The officer quoting the initial report said that one of the personnel in the barrack opened fired when there erupted a quarrel with other personnel in the same barrack this morning.
After shooting to dead two of his colleagues, the IRB man committed suicide by firing himself with the weapon issued to him.
Another other personnel in the barrack sustained injuries in the shooting incident, he added.
Friday, 31 July 2009
Tipaimukh: Heavy rain delays Dhaka team's visit
The visiting 10-member team of Bangladeshi parliamentarians yesterday could not visit the site of proposed Tipaimukh Hydropower Project in the Indian state of Manipur due to heavy rain.
The delegation led by veteran AL lawmaker Abdur Razzak took off in a helicopter from Guwahati in Assam and headed to the project site but could not proceed further as heavy downpour forced it to return.
However, the delegation, which was scheduled to return to Delhi yesterday evening, stayed back in Guwahati and would make another attempt to visit the site today, Bangladeshi officials here said.
The delegation's attempt to visit the Tipaimukh site came a day after Indian Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde and officials assured the delegation that no irrigation project would come up downstream of the Tipaimukh and there would be no diversion of water from the river Barak on which the 1,500MW power project, entailing an investment of Rs 9,000 crore, is being developed.
Since its arrival in Delhi on July 29, the delegation had held talks with officials of Indian power, water resources and external affairs ministries besides Indian External Affairs Minister SM Krishna and Power Minister Shinde.
Both Krishna and Shinde assured the delegation that India would not do anything about the Tipaumukh project, which would harm Bangladesh's interest.
The Tipaimukh project is being developed in impoverished Churachandpur district of Monipur by government owned national hydropower corporation in joint venture with Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam and Manipur Government.
Govt faces acid test over Tipaimukh: Moudud
BNP leaders Barrister Moudud Ahmed and Hannan Shah among others at a roundtable discussion at the National Press Club on Friday. Photo: Focus Bangla |
Govt faces acid test over Tipaimukh: Moudud
Leaders of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) have urged the government to take immediate measures to gather necessary documents about the ..........More
Staff Correspondent
Leaders of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) have urged the government to take immediate measures to gather necessary documents about the country's maritime boundary and place to United Nations with a view to stopping hearing on the appeal of Myanmar which claimed ownership of a large area inside Bangladesh.
BNP Standing Committee member Barrister Moudud Ahmed and Adviser to Khaleda Zia, Brigadier General (Retd) ASM Hannan Shah made this call while addressing a roundtable discussion on 'conspiracy for occupying maritime boundary and sovereignty of Bangladesh’ organized by National Youth Forum held at the National Press Club yesterday.
Moudud Ahmed said neighboring countries India and Myanmar have already submitted their documents and necessary information about maritime boundary claiming ownership of huge area inside Bangladesh boundary. But Bangladesh government is yet to take any steps regarding the issue.
"If the government plays a silent role and tries to play political game with this nationally important issue ignoring national interest, BNP along with the countrymen will resist it through launching countrywide movement," Moudud said, adding that the government is facing an acid test on Tipaimukh Dam whether the government is able to protect the country's interest or not. The government's sustainability depends on the success of the acid test.
Hannan Shah called upon the government to arrange a national convention on the maritime boundary issue ensuring presence of experts and opposition party. It is the high time to gather necessary documents and place it before international community for protecting the country's boundary from the aggression of India and Myanmar.
The ruling party will mainly be responsible for not protecting the country's interest and sovereignty, said Barrister Abdur Razzak.
Bangladesh Jatiya Party Secretary General Abu Naser Mohammed Rahmatullah, environment and water specialist Dr. S I Khan and Major General (Retd) Fazlur Rahman also addressed the discussion meeting.
Nazrul In Sylhet 109th anniversary of our National Poet
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Hasina party students, Chhatra League men occupy Girls school building in Sylhet town
Activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) occupied the newly built girls' dormitory of Sylhet Sarkari (government) College yesterday afternoon.
College sources said at least 40 BCL men broke into the four-storey building at around 3:00pm and took possession of 26 rooms there.
The college authorities however, suspended today's academic activities fearing untoward incidents.
Witnesses said the BCL activists, led by their college unit convener Debangshu Das, entered the building by breaking the lock of the main gate.
Debangshu claimed that the BCL men helped the general students occupy the rooms at the hostel.
Immediately after the incident, JCD and Shibir leaders met the college principal. They demanded ouster of the BCL men from the girls' hostel. Otherwise, they said their party men would occupy the remaining rooms of the dormitory.
Meanwhile, traders in the city yesterday blocked the road in Barutkhana area for 10 minutes protesting attack on one of their colleagues by Juba league cadres at Zindabazar on Monday night.
Police and witnesses said Juba League leader Bidhan Kumar Shaha and some of his party men beat up an autorickshaw driver as he parked his three-wheeler in front of a shop at Zindabazar at around 9:00pm on Monday.
As Kamal Ahmed, owner of a readymade garment store of a nearby market, protested the incident, the Jubo League men assaulted him.