Home affairs secretary Abdul Karim on Monday said that the government had conditionally relaxed the Emergency Powers Rules to allow electioneering ahead of the local government polls scheduled for August 4. [Read more]

Appearing together in solidarity, Republican John McCain and Iraq’s president said yesterday that the war-ravaged country is making significant but fragile progress. [Read more]

Appearing together in solidarity, Republican John McCain and Iraq’s president said yesterday that the war-ravaged country is making significant but fragile progress. [Read more]

Kushtia Correspondent
Two top-listed extremist leaders were killed in a “crossfire” during an encounter with the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) at Goneshpur of Khoksha upazila in Kushtia yesterday.The deceased were identified as Golam Hossain Alias Akash, 35, brother of slain Janajuddho chief Dada Tapan and Abdur Rashid alias Tikka, 32, chief of notorious Tikka [...]

আবার আসছে আপনাদের পছন্দের: বাংলাদেশ সংলাপ [Read more]

The Criminal Investigation Department on June 11 pressed charges against 22 people, including Pintu, his two brothers and Harkat-ul-Jihad AL Islami’s operative commander Mufti Abdul Hannan, in the two cases related to the grenade attack.
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Staff Reporter
Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) Chairman Prof Muzaffar Ahmad yesterday said mismanagement and corruption caused wastage of about 30-50 percent in different water sector projects in Bangladesh.He said this while presenting the ‘Global Corruption Report-2008: Corruption in Water Sector’ at the CIRDAP auditorium in the city.Prof Muzaffar said that much more financial irregularities take place [...]

অবরুদ্ধ পূণ্যভূমি ১১ - সংঘাতের নতুন রেসিপি [Read more]

She said her party was not against local body polls, but those must be held under an elected democratic government since the caretaker government was not mandated to hold local government polls. [Read more]

At least 38 people were killed in two massive bomb attacks in Iraq yesterday, 20 of them dying at the hands of a suicide bomber as they held an anti-Qaeda meet, officials said. [Read more]