‘DB men’ at Ilias house at midnight
Some mysterious people posing as members of detective branch of police tried to enter missing BNP leader M Ilias Ali’s Banani residence in the capital early Friday. The unidentified ‘DB men’ could not enter the house as Tahsina Rushdir Luna, the wife of M Ilias Ali, rejected their requests to open the gate for searching [...]
Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari is set to be at this weekend’s Nato summit on Afghanistan. The Pakistani embassy in Washington told the BBC he was “likely to attend” the meeting in Chicago. Nato said Pakistan had an important role to play in its neighbour’s future. The move comes amid signs that Pakistan may be [...]
Continue reading …— Omar Khasru MORE the days go by, it becomes increasingly clearer that the signing of a Teesta river water-sharing treaty is sliding more and more into the backburner. It perhaps gradually will skid and hide into relative oblivion even though the issue is both pressing and of immense consequence for Bangladesh. It may well [...]
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At this time, when Bangladeshi government is struggling in controlling the exorbitant rise in the prices of essentials, including edible oil, state owned – Trading Corporation of Bangladesh [TCB] has visibly stepped into wrong trap set by unscrupulous business syndicate, which recently made announcements of importing five thousand tons of Crude Degummed Soya Bean Oil [...]
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BY RANI D. MULLEN, SUMIT GANGULY India’s soft power has now been on display for at least a couple of decades: Indian philosophy has captivated Western minds since the 1960s; Bollywood’s prodigious celluloid fare has long drawn huge audiences in significant parts of Asia, Africa, and beyond; India’s English-language novelists have often edged out native [...]
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The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has dismissed as ‘baseless’ a Jubo Dal leader’s claim about a call coming from the cell phone of missing BNP leader M Ilias Ali. “The news is baseless. We looked into the claim, but found that Ilias Ali’s cell phone has been switched off ever since he went missing,” said [...]
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The High Court on Thursday issued a rule upon the government to explain why it should not be directed to preserve the place of the Wonderland as a public park. The government will have to answer the rule in two weeks. The HC also directed the authorities concerned of the government not to lease the [...]
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By: Zahangir Alom To celebrate Rabindranath Tagore’s 151st birth anniversary, his works and philosophy, Chhayanaut held a two-day ‘Rabindra Utshab’ (festival) at the main auditorium of Chhayanaut Sangskriti Bhaban in Dhanmondi, Dhaka. The festival began on May 8. Leading and upcoming Tagore artistes of the country as well several cultural organisations participated in the event. [...]
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Bangladesh can attract huge FDI through strengthening its investment arbitration process and dispute resolution and increasing deals with foreign countries. IISD will provide training, financial and technical assistance to explore the country’s investment opportunity, said experts at a workshop Tuesday. Bangladesh faces obstacles in attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) because of lack of investment agreements [...]
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By: Praveen Swami Early on May 4, 2003, an unsigned, one-page fax arrived at the State Department in Washington, D.C. It contained an extraordinary secret offer from Iran’s rulers: in return for regime security, an end to sanctions and access to civilian nuclear technology, Iran promised full transparency in its nuclear programme and a termination [...]
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By: B.Raman Thousands of TV viewers in India—-and possibly in the US too—– watched enthralled on the morning of May 7,2012, what the Americans describe as a Town Hall meeting between Mrs.Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State who was on a visit to Kolkata, and some youth of the city in a historic local [...]
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RAJUK has begun demolishing Wonderland amusement park for encroaching on Dhaka City Corporation land. The RAJUK drive led by magistrate Rokon-ud-Doula came following a court order that declared illegal the lease of DCC land on which it was built. The dismantling began with the tearing down of the main entrance to the amusement park in [...]
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