Bangladesh Election Commissioner M Sohul Hussain said that the Commission would ask the government to lift the ban on politics for city corporation election [Read more]

A Bangladesh court has heard extortion charges against former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. [Read more]

Bangladesh Condemns Benazir’s Assasination [Read more]

Some of the Bengali analysts now living in the USA and Europe have commented on the assassination of the former Pakistani PM Benazir Bhutto. [Read more]

Tareq Karim feels that it has broken the baclbone of democracy in Pakistan [Read more]

Other members of the banned group managed to flee. Four police were injured during the gunfight. [Read more]

Golam Sarwar, the Editor of the Daily Jugantor , a daily newspaper from Bangladesh looks into this development and critically analyses the situation in Bangladesh.
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The IO in the petitions filed yesterday — one against Khaleda Zia and Mosharraf, and the other against Moudud — mentioned that for the sake of fair investigation the accused needed to be shown as arrested. [Read more]

He was referring to the success story of Grameen  Bank in Bangladesh as opposed to its failure in the neighboring Indian state of West Bengal. [Read more]

Staff Reporter
The south-western part of Dhaka city would not be free of water-logging as housing companies have occupied one-third of Hazaribagh canal for their roads. However, Dhaka Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) has restored one kilometre of the three kilometres long canal recently and is now widening it.But without restoring, the occupied parts of the [...]