Awami League presidium member Tofail Ahmed, assignee of the task to negotiate a common stand with the components of the AL-led alliance, Saturday said he wanted to relinquish the responsibility following inclusion of his name in the list of corruption suspects. In the absence of the alliance coordinator, Abdul Jalil, now detained...
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Awami League will start formal meetings with the components of the AL-led combine from Saturday to mobilize them and persuade them to submit identical proposals for electoral reforms in their dialogs with the Election Commission. On the first day of its series of discussions with allies, AL will sit with Worker’s Party...
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Several hundred Islamists Friday went out on demonstrations in front of Baitul Mukarram mosque in Dhaka and brought out a procession protesting against the publication of a cartoon in Prothom Alo weekly supplement, Alpin, and an article in Weekly 2000, alleged to have hurt the religious sentiment of Muslims. After Friday prayers,...
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BNP chairperson’s adviser, ASM Hannan Shah, Friday said the publication of the latest list of corruption suspects indicates a change in government’s policy and there should be more names of the so-called reformists on the list. “I expected to see more names of ‘reformists’ on the new list of corruption suspects. But...
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Shahid Afridi, the Pakistan all-rounder, has pulled out of the South Africa Test series. He indicated that it would be very difficult and affect his performance if he fasts and plays during the holy month of Ramadan. Afridi was the player of the tournament in South Africa Twenty20 Cricket World...
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Mohammad Yousuf says that he is willing to do anything for Pakistan as he agrees to cancel his contract with the Indian Cricket League and chooses to represent Pakistan after talks with Nasim Ashraf, chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board. “I had a fruitful meeting with Yousuf and he has...
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Video: Al Jazeera English via You Tube. 9 people were killed today (September 27, 2007) in Burma (Myanmar), by the country’s military force. For last few days, freedom-loving people took to the streets, protesting against the oppressive military regime that has ruled Burma for the last two decades. The soldiers under...
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80 corruption suspects listed. Big names: Sadeque Hossain Khoka of BNP, Tofail Ahmed, Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury of AL, Abdur Rouf Chowdhury of Rangs Group, Latifur Rahman of Transcom Group, Abdul Matlub Ahmed of Nitol Group, Former Supreme Court judge Justice Fazlul Haque, Proshika president Kazi Faruque.
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A faction of the Islami Oikya Jote Thursday alleged that Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh was the mastermind behind the recent incidents that followed the publication of a controversial cartoon in Alpin, a satirical weekly of Prothom Alo. “The cartoon has undoubtedly hurt the religious sentiments of the people, but the incidents that ensued last...
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Anti-Corruption Commission chairman, Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury, Thursday said the government should broaden scope for the right to information to cut corruption in society. The former army chief referred to a missing article from an international magazine that had focused on Bangladesh. The article was apparently torn off by the government what Mashhud...
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