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Published On: 2008-10-09 National An unidentified caller yesterday gave a death threat to a probable candidate in the upcoming Jatiya Sangsad (JS) election from Rajshahi-5 (Charghat and Bagha) constituency. Former lawmaker and Charghat Awami League (AL) general secretary Raihanul Haque who got the threat said the caller threatened him to kill if he seeks party nomination to run in JS election. Later, he lodged a general diary (GD) in this connection with local police station. When contacted, Charghat Police Station officer-in-charge SM Bazlur Rashid confirmed the incident saying police have started an investigation. http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=57874

Anwar Ali, Rajshahi Thirty-year-old housewife Lal Banu died yesterday, five days later her admittance into Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH). Her mother Ez Banu was lamenting while her hapless husband was sitting silently by two minor children on the hospital premises for the release of her body. "Life of my wife must have been saved, if I could afford proper treatment. Doctors seldom attend patients at the government hospital," Lal Banu's husband Haider Hossain of Vetkibari village under Niamatpur upazila in Naogaon described his plight with certain anger in his eyes as this correspondent proceeded them. "There is only one doctor at Ward No 3 that was full with patients as we admitted her with both of her legs severely broken in a road accident and she was bleeding profusely", Haider, a solvent farmer, added. He said, "We managed them (doctors) whatever medicine or medical equipment they sought. She was given blood. But doctors and nur

Anwar Ali, Rajshahi With the Jatiya Sangsad elections drawing nearer, potential candidates from major parties have geared up their electioneering in all the five constituencies in Rajshahi city. Some of the candidates have started campaigning at villages while some are holding press conferences to express their willingness to join the political fray and others are greeting people pasting posters on the city walls. Most of the possible candidates started campaigning during Ramadan and they intensified their daily activities of meeting people taking opportunity of the two major festivals -- Eid-ul-Fitr and Durga Puja. The electioneering shows that Awami League-led 14-party combine is in the lead position though it has been facing intra-party rivalry to some extent while BNP-led four-party alliance is yet to be prepared without any leader or office to guide them. Workers' Party politburo member Fazle Hossain Badsha has started meeting people expressing his desire to par

A Dhaka court today asked BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, former ministers Motiur Rahman Nizami, Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan, M Shamsul Islam and MK Anwar to appear before it on October 12 in connection with the Barapukuria coalmine corruption case. Judge Mohammad Azizul Haque of the Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court after accepting the charge sheet in the case also issued arrest warrants against nine people including former ministers M Saifur Rahman, Barrister Aminul Haque, AKM Mosharraf Hossain and Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojahid. go to http://www.thedailystar.net/latest/updates.php?pid=-98  for details