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Poetry festival in Rajshahi http://www.thedailystar.net/2007/04/30/d704301402136.htm         Staff Correspondent, Rajshahi A regional poetry recitation festival was celebrated with much enthusiasm featuring a rally, recitation, discussion and workshops in Rajshahi on April 27 and 28. The two-day celebration, jointly organised by Bangladesh Abritti Samannoy Parishad, Rajshahi Abritti Parishad and cultural organisation Swanan, was held at Ghoramara Padma Mancha with the slogan "Jai, Alok Arunodoy, Jai". Individuals and different recitation forums from Naogaon, Bogra, Rangpur, Satkhira, Rajshahi and adjacent districts, participated in the programmes. Renowned litterateurs Professor Hasan Azizul Haq and Ruhul Amin Pramanik inaugurated the festival. "It is cultural identity that divides people into nations around the globe. People get a new lease of life observing festivals, celebrating their own cultures and heritage," Professor Hasan said in his

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/27/world/middleeast/27iraq.html?th&emc=th   U.S. Officer Accused of 'Aiding Enemy' in Iraq   By DAMIEN CAVE Published: April 27, 2007   BAGHDAD, April 26 — The American military has charged a top commander at its main detention center here with nine violations of military law, including "aiding the enemy," a rare and serious accusation that could carry a death sentence.   According to a military statement released Thursday, the officer, Lt. Col. William H. Steele, provided aid to the enemy between Oct. 1, 2005, and Oct. 31, 2006, "by providing an unmonitored cellular phone to detainees" at Camp Cropper, an expansive prison near Baghdad International Airport that held Saddam Hussein before he was hanged.   Colonel Steele, who oversaw one of several compounds at Camp Cropper as commander of the 451st Military Police Detachment, was also charged with several counts of illegally storing and marking c

Police last night pressed charges of aiding abetting militants of Jama’atul Mujahidin, Bangladesh against former post and telecommunication minister Barrister Aminul Haque, ex-deputy minister for land Ruhul Kuddus Talukhdar Dulu, former lawmaker Nadim Mostafa in two cases. Other 54 persons were also accused of torture and extortion in the charge sheets that were submitted at the third court of first class magistrate in Rajshahi. The court will record the charges later. SI Mukhtar Hossain accused 27 persons including Aminul, Rajshahi district BNP general secretary Shis Mohammad in the case lodged by torture victim Fazlur Rahman with Bagmara police station (PS) on March 30. In this case, police dropped name of Bangla Bhai, as he was hanged. Sub inspector (SI) Shakil Hossain accused 30 persons including Aminul, Dulu, and Nadim in another case filed by torture victim Ayub Ali Pramanik with same PS on April 1. “As the charges are pressed, arrest of the former BNP stalwarts became matter of

http://www.indiaenews.com/india/20070423/48574.htm Agra to host Bangladesh, Pakistan, India peoples' meet From correspondents in Uttar Pradesh, India, 04:00 PM IST An organisation working towards 'unification of the subcontinent' and bringing the peoples of India, Bangladesh and Pakistan closer will meet in Agra in August to take forward the movement. The Bangladesh-Pakistan-Bharat Peoples' Forum, a leftist outfit, had held its last conference in November in Lucknow. It believes that the partition of the subcontinent was a 'grave blunder' and that there can be no peace in the subcontinent unless there is unification. Forum national president Ram Kishore said Sunday evening that the 'momentum for unification has to be maintained, rather stepped up to ensure peace and progress in the region which has seen many conflagrations in the past 60 years that have only helped the imperialist powers to entrench their tentacles'. The Agra meet will be attended by mem