Volume 4 Number 89 Sat. August 23, 2003       Advertise with The Daily Star -- Advertising on the Website    Advertising in the Printed E dition-- Home  News Today's Index Front Page Business Political Sports Foreign Relations Metropolitan National International Culture General Views Editorial Letters to Editor Write to Editor Sections Literature Others About Us Contact Advertisement Suppliments Archives Political By-election Netrokona-3 AL alleges rigging The main opposition Awami League ( AL) yesterday questioned the credibility of Netrokona-3 by-polls held on Friday and said the BNP-led four-party ruling alliance 'snatched its (AL) victory in a new   By-election Netrokona-3 BNP says polls were fair The BNP has brushed aside the opposition Awami League's (AL) allegation of rigging in the Netrakona-3 parliamentary by-elections, saying it was 'one of the most free and fair polls'.   AL leader, listed criminal killed in Pabna An Awami League leader and a member of an extremist group were killed yesterday in two separate incidents in Pabna district, police said.   Hasina returns home today Awami League chief and Leader of the Opposition in Parliament Sheikh Hasina returns home today from the United States.   One gets life for murder in Naogaon A court here on Thursday sentenced a man to life imprisonment for killing a rickshaw-van workers union leader Azhar Ali Sarder in 1997.   Jubo Dal men seize tenders for LGED road construction project in Khulna Armed Jubo Dal cadres on Thursday stormed into the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) office and expelled 17 contractors waiting to submit tenders for a road construction project, sourcesalleged.     Advertisement