The West Bengal chief minister, Mamata Banerjee, who is scheduled to meet the prime minister, Manmohan Singh, today, would discuss various issues ranging from the Teesta water treaty with Bangladesh to the controversial counter-terror intelligence hub, a Trinamool Congress leader said Tuesday, reports Hindustan Times in Kolkata. The meeting between Manmohan Singh and Banerjee comes [...]
Activists of an Indian NGO brought out a cycle rally in the Thoubal district of northeastern Manipur state on Saturday to protest the proposed Tipaimukh dam. They also submitted a memo addressed to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh requesting him to revoke the Memorandum of Understanding reached between the Manipur state and two companies to [...]
The United Kingdom’s state-run Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) will provide a £3.0m fund for the development of the energy and power sector in an echo-friendly manner. To materialise the package, Nafees Miah, head of the science analysis team at the UK agency will arrive Dhaka to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU). [...]
The leader of the opposition and BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia said on Saturday that parliamentary elections must be held under non-party caretaker government. Speaking at a huge rally at Adarsha Samad Academy ground at Laxmipur, she said that there could be no parliamentary polls acceptable to all under a party government. BNP organised the rally [...]
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday sought all-out support and solidarity of the international community towards Bangladesh’s initiative for holding the trial of the war criminals to establish truth and justice. “I hope the world Bengali community will carry out their duty to this end,” she said at the inaugural function of the First International [...]
The Al Jazeera television has reported that the trial of former Jamaat-e-Islami chief Ghulam Azam for crimes against humanity may throw Bangladesh into further political instability. The observation came in a report the Qatar-based television carried Wednesday. In a tone seemingly downplaying the need of the trial, the report says Ghulam Azam is being tried [...]
Police will not arrest anyone in connection with the journalist couple murder without being fully sure of their involvement in the killing, detectives said on Wednesday. “We will not arrest anyone if there is one percent doubt about his or her involvement in the murders,” Monirul Islam, deputy commissioner of Detectives Branch (South) of police, [...]
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia on Monday hinted that the party would announce a ‘mass sit-in programme’ on March 12 to bid farewell to the ‘failed’ government of Awami League. The ‘mass sit-in programme’ would be announced at the BNP’s programme in Dhaka on March 12. Khaleda, also the leader of the [...]
Home Minister Shahara Khatun on Tuesday declined to set a date for completing the investigation into journalist couple murder. The minister made the statement a day after a 48-hour timeframe she had given the law enforcers for putting the killers of Meherun Runi and Sagar Sarowar behind bars ended. Runi, senior reporter of private TV [...]
Egyptians must overcome economic and political differences to unite and put the country on the path to democracy and away from military rule, former presidential candidate Mohamed ElBaradei said Wednesday. “It is time to set aside our differences. We need the strength of a unified Egypt: ensuring judicial independence, protecting media freedom and civil society, [...]