Leading economists of the country have rejected Bangladesh’s ranking in the Transparency International’s corruption perception index (CPI), saying that the report did not include broader perspective of corruption that can reflect a realistic picture. When their attention was drawn to country’s slight elevation in position in 2007, not in terms of score...
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Bangladesh’s position has remained steady in terms of integrity as it ranked 162 among 180 countries in the corruption perceptions index (CPI) 2007, Transparency International said Wednesday. Bangladesh scored 2.0 points, the same as it did in 2006, on a scale of 10 points. Countries with a score below 3 are described...
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The central bank in Bangladesh has instructed banks to maintain “enhanced due diligence” about the accounts of “politically exposed persons” (PEP). The Bangladesh Bank in a circular, issued Tuesday, asked the banks to be more cautious when the PEP or their family members want to open bank accounts. The central bank issued...
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Bangladeshi chess player Abdullah Al Rakib has been officially announced as a Grandmaster by the World Chess Federation (FIDE). The third quarter presidential board meeting of the FIDE, held on September 13-14 in Mexico, approved Rakib’s Grandmaster title, and the FIDE Elishta (Russia) office Tuesday confirmed it to the Bangladesh Chess Federation....
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Result India won by 5 runs. Full Scorecard by CricInfo. Toss India, who chose to bat first. Series India won the 2007/08 ICC World Twenty20. Player of the match IK Pathan (India) Player of the series Shahid Afridi (Pakistan) 1983 — India wins the World Cup. Kapil Dev, a...
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Khilafatist outfit Hizb ut-Tahrir has declared that it will march towards the Prothom Alo office in Dhaka coming Friday demanding the newspaper’s closure for publishing a blasphemous cartoon and remarks defaming the holy Kaaba by its sister concern Weekly 2000.
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Khandaker Delwar Hossain — BNP secretary general — Tuesday urged the military-led interim government to release two top political leaders of Bangladesh, Khaleda Zia of BNP and Sheikh Hasina of Awami League, from jail to ensure the country’s return to democracy.
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5 former ministers of the immediate past 4-party alliance government marched into the ACC (Anti Corruption Commission) headquarters in Dhaka Tuesday morning to testify against their former boss, then Prime Minister, now imprisoned Khaleda Zia.
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Photo/PID: Another Hamid Karzai in the making? Military installed Chief Advisor of Bangladesh, Fakhruddin Ahmed, meets the US installed President of Afghanistan, both visiting the US to attend the UN General Assembly. Dr. Fakhruddin Ahmed, the civilian face of Bangladesh’s military government, has arrived in America. For the first time in...
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Talk about press freedom under a shariah state, a khilafat, where divinely appointed ulemas will carry out the even more divine task of dictating the public mind. Enter Hizb ut-Tahrir — a global Islamic political party working for the reestablishment...
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Result India won by 5 runs. Full Scorecard from CricInfo. Toss India, who chose to bat first. Series India won the 2007/08 ICC World Twenty20. Player of the match IK Pathan (India) Player of the series Shahid Afridi (Pakistan) A full review will be posted later on. ...
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Kiwis hold their reputation, Pakistan reaches final Pakistan 147 for 4 (Nazir 59) beats New Zealand 143 for 8 (Gul 4-15) by six wickets. Full scorecard by Cricinfo. New Zealand
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The first word in the Holy Koran is “Read”. When I was a child growing up in Bangladesh, my parents hired the imam of the neighborhood mosque to teach me how to read the Koran. Twice a week after school the imam, an old man with a kindly face, would come...
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