India eNews: Top Headlines (Free subscription) | yesterday
The parliamentary polls in Bangladesh scheduled for December may be held without lifting the curbs imposed under a national emergency, going by the largely trouble-free civic polls held Monday that saw the Awami League emerge victorious.
Reuters (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh's interim administration turned down calls for lifting of emergency on Thursday, saying tough measures were necessary to ensure a peaceful election.
The New Nation (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
BSS, Dhaka The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has decided to expedite the activities of trap cases across the country to check bribery at the field level. The Commission has taken the decision following reports of different studies and information from public hearsay that most of the incidents of corruption at field level are related to bribery, ACC Director General (DG) Colonel Hanif told reporters...
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UNB, Dhaka Consumers will have to wait apparently until the next aman harvest to witness if there is any declining trend in the price of rice as projected by Bangladesh Bank chief economist Dr MK Mujeri. "The price of rice is likely to come down if there is a good harvest of next aman," he said yesterday, releasing Bangladesh Bank Quarterly for April-June period of 2008. Dr Mujeri said the price of...
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Bdnew24.com, Dhaka The High Court has seized the president's special power to discount the recommendations of the Supreme Judicial Commission in appointing judges to the higher court. A three- member strong special bench of justices MA Rashid, Nazmun Ara Sultana and Md Ashfaqul Islam yesterday scrapped Section 9 (4) of the Supreme Judicial Commission Ordinance that gave the president the special power-by...
OTB News (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A Bangladeshi lawyer who works as a human trafficking expert for the United Nations has been released on bail while she appeals a three-year jail sentence on extortion charges, a prison official said Thursday….
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
DHAKA, Bangladesh -- A Bangladeshi lawyer who works as a human trafficking expert for the United Nations has been released on bail while she appeals a three-year jail sentence on extortion charges, a prison official said Thursday.
The New Nation (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
UNB, Dhaka Council of Advisers on Wednesday night approved the Representation of People (Amendment) Ordinance 2008. Draft of the amendment to the existing Ordinance was approved in a lengthy six-hour meeting ending at 9-30pm. Chief Adviser Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed presided over the meeting at his office. The proposed amendment provides for formation of electoral alliance among the registered and unregistered...
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BSS, Dhaka The government has reached an agreement with Tunisia and Morocco to import two lakh tonnes of non-urea fertilizers under the state-level deals. If required, the import volume of fertilisers could be increased to three lakh tonnes, said an Agriculture Ministry press release. The fertilisers will begin arriving in the country in October this year and continue through 2009. There is scope...
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UNB, Dhaka The coming general election would also be held under the state of emergency as "everybody appreciated" the recent holding of local elections smoothly, LGRD Adviser Anwarul Iqbal said yesterday. "It matters little who made what comment…NO candidate did complain officially about the elections," the Local Government adviser told reporters at the Secretariat. To justify government plans for...
Voice of Bangladeshi Bloggers (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
EU does not observe polls under emergency: Euro MP Wed, Aug 6th, 2008 Dhaka, Aug 6 (bdnews24.com) – Visiting European member of parliament Nirj Deva on Wednesday said the EU supported a total lift of the state of emergency ahead of national polls. After a meeting with acting Awami League president Zillur Rahman at his Gulshan home, Nirj Deva told reporters that the European Union observers did not...
Voice of Bangladeshi Bloggers (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
Hasina’s party wins in Bangladesh poll By Tom Felix Joehnk in Dhaka Source: Financial Times August 5, 2008 Elections held under a state of emergency declared by Bangladesh’s military to purge corruption from the political system have been judged to be the fairest ever, though most posts were won by candidates backed by one of the country’s traditional party machines. The Awami League, the party of...
Alertnet (Free subscription) | yesterday
Source: Reuters DHAKA, Aug 6 (Reuters) - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) will distribute some 9,000 tonnes of rice worth $7.9 million among 100,000 of Bangladesh's poorest people over the next six ...
Reuters (Free subscription) | yesterday
DHAKA (Reuters) - European and American diplomats said on Wednesday they were impressed by the high turnout and efficient running of local elections in Bangladesh this week, calling the polls a step in the right direction ahead of December's national polls.
Daily Online Alochona (Free subscription) | yesterday
BCL confines Dhaka Univ VC, demands release of gen secy Courtesy New Age 6/8/08 DU Correspondent Bangladesh Chhatra League activists confined the Dhaka University vice-chancellor to the administrative building for three hours on Tuesday and damaged his office and several vehicles, demanding release of their detained general secretary. They later released the vice-chancellor, SMA Faiz, at around 7:00pm,...
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kahuq | 07/22/2008
Fron:BANGLADESH KHELAFAT ANDOLON (BKA)N-70, Ashrafabad, Kamrangirchar, DHAKA-1211, BANGLADESHIn the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.Dt: DHAKA, Saturday, 12 July 2008.To: H.R.H. King Abdulllah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, Saudi Arabia.Cc: H.E. Rev. Chief Rabbi David Rosen, Director of AJC, Chairman of IJCIC, Israel. H.E. Rev. Pope Benedict XVI, Vatican. H.E.Rev.Ayatollah Syed Ali Khamenie, Rahbar,...
