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Advisers tell Zakaria to go on leave, spare Modabbir
EC changes poll schedule again but not the voting date
The advisory council of caretaker government requested Election Commissioner SM Zakaria yesterday to go on leave of absence while at its request the Election Commission (EC) rescheduled the polls timetable
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Faulty Tongi Power Plant
9 top PDB officials sued for graft
The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday filed a case against nine Power Development Board (PDB) officials, including one of its former chairmen, involved in the construction of the Tongi 80 megawatt
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Latest proposal of advisers rejected
14-party, LDP, JP decide today new agitation plan
Awami League (AL)-led 14-party coalition, Jatiya Party (JP-Ershad) and Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)-led Jatiya Oikya Front (JOF) yesterday rejected the fresh proposals of the advisers to the caretaker
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Feni Marginal Field
Gas sale deal with Niko approved after 2 years
After two years of delay and disagreements, the government yesterday approved the gas sales purchase agreement (GPSA) with Canadian company Niko Resources for purchase of gas from the Feni marginal field,
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Port performance dips for underuse of cranes
Workers' non-cooperation, weak backup service responsible
The capacity of the four sophisticated gantry cranes installed at the Chittagong Container Terminals (CCT) is being underused as they remain idle for most of the time due to weak back up services andnon-cooperation
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Iajuddin 'key obstacle' to fair polls
AL, LDP tell EU observers
Leaders of Awami League (AL) and Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in separate meetings with the European Union (EU) election observation team yesterday described President Iajuddin Ahmed as the 'key obstacle'
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Roushan talks with Khaleda
Announcement on alliance likely today
A group of Jatiya Party (JP) leaders led by its Presidium Member Roushan Ershad met BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia last night and expressed their solidarity with the BNP-led four-party alliance.
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Right to pick honest candidate at stake
Citizen's campaign critical of protecting poll aspirants' personal info
Shushashoner Janney Nagorik (Shujan) yesterday said people's right to choose an honest and credible candidate in the upcoming parliamentary elections will be hampered since they will not be able to know
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Aug 17 Blast
9 accused in Barisal case acquitted
Barisal Divisional Speedy Trial Tribunal yesterday acquitted all of the nine accused in one of the 12 cases lodged in connection with series bomb blasts at 18 places of Barisal city on August 17, 2005.
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Electoral Roll Correction
5,000 more Rohingyas drafted in voter list
Around five thousand more Rohingya refugees have been included in the 'corrected' voter list in six upazilas of the district while thousands of eligible voters have not been enrolled or excluded fromthe
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14-party, JP enforce hartal today
The Awami League (AL)-led 14-party combine and Jatiya Party (Ershad) enforce a dawn-to-dusk hartal across the country today as part of their joint movement to resist any one-sided election.
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Khaleda accuses AL of grabbing Hindu property
Urging the Hindu community to vote for BNP-led four-party alliance in the coming election, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday said the Hindus should come out of the fold of Awami League (AL).
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Cop's murder linked with his investigations
Suspect police
Police are yet to arrest the criminals involved with Tuesday night's murder of Sub-Inspector (SI) Mizanur Rahman of Gulshan Police Station and believe that the murder may have links with the investigations
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Sedition Cases
Accused lawyers furnish bail bonds
Eminent lawyers Barrister M Amir- Ul Islam and Barrister Rokanuddin Mahmud and six others accused in two sedition cases furnished bail bonds to the Additional District Magistrate's (ADM) Court, Dhaka,
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Arrestee admits to dumping jeweller's body
An arrestee in the jewellery trader Turya Ghosh Roni murder case yesterday confessed to a magistrate that he, along with four others, took part in the dumping of the trader's dismembered body at Rampura
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Outlaw leader killed in Rab 'shootout'
A regional leader of the outlawed Purbo Banglar Communist Party (PBCP) Lal Pataka faction was killed in a 'shootout' with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) at Debipur village under Gangni upazila in Meherpur
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Bush may increase Iraq troops
New US defence secy jets in Baghdad; 15 killed in suicide attacks
Robert Gates made his first visit to Baghdad as US defence secretary yesterday to chart a fresh strategy in a war President George W. Bush has now said America is not winning.
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50 Taliban men killed in raid
Nato-led and Afghan forces have killed around 50 Taliban insurgents in a fresh anti-militant sweep in southern Afghanistan, the alliance said yesterday.
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