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Playing with projects
IMED report detects govt had to fork out extra Tk 2,800cr as authorities pushed up costs of 74 projects up to 300pc
Various government agencies in the recent past pushed up the costs of 74 completed projects up to 300 percent under the Annual Development Programme (ADP), while failing to implement them according to

EU reiterates support to CG
Says HR situation improves slightly
European Union (EU) envoys yesterday reiterated support for the current military-backed government citing the administration's progress towards holding free and fair elections and what one envoy saidwas

Okaying 5 Controversial Power Projects
Not a question of 'clean chit' but of urgency
The experts' committee on power sector formed by the caretaker government cleared five controversial power deals earlier this week not because they found these to be "clean" but because in the persisting

High security around Hasina's house
Up to 3,000 AL men sued for procession in airport area; 3 top Uttara cops closed, one inspector suspended
The government yesterday beefed up security around Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina's Sudha Sadan residence while airport police filed a case against two to three thousand party leaders and activists

Govt to repossess eight privatised textile mills
The government is planning to take back the ownership of eight formerly state owned textile mills from the current private managements due to their failure to run those efficiently.

President asks EC to complete poll tasks
President Iajuddin Ahmed yesterday asked the Election Commission (EC) to complete all preparatory tasks to hold the ninth parliamentary election by 2008, the time frame announced by the present caretaker

Govt out for transparent, healthy trend in politics: CA
Recalling poet Rabindranath Tagore's stand against social injustice, Chief Adviser (CA) Fakhruddin Ahmed yesterday said the nation is committed to setting a transparent and healthy trend in politics and

Paltan Killing
Nizami, 9 others get bail
A Dhaka court yesterday granted ad interim bail to Jamaat-e-Islami chief Matiur Rahman Nizami and nine other leaders of the party and its student front in a case for the killing of a Workers Party activist

Concern over Dastagir's fate
No trace after he was picked up 5 days ago
A group of 16 freedom fighters expressed deep concern yesterday over the whereabouts of Gazi Golam Dastagir, a freedom fighter, successful businessman and an eminent sports organiser.

Developers doings...

Charges pressed against ex-BNP MP Pintu in two criminal cases
Former AL lawmaker Lotus Kamal remanded
Police have pressed charges against detained former BNP lawmaker Nasiruddin Ahmed Pintu in two criminal cases filed in February this year.

Sylhet mayor freed on bail in graft case
Mayor of Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran, who was arrested in connection with a graft case, was released on bail from Comilla Central Jail yesterday morning.

Illegal workers get 2 months to leave Kuwait freely
Several thousand Bangladeshi workers, living in Kuwait with irregular status, fear that they have to return home voluntarily or face deportation, as the country's government announced an amnesty period

Detained JMB men disclose plan to blow up NGO offices
The three Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) militants, who were placed on a five-day remand in Rangpur Thursday, disclosed sensational information about their regrouping, technique and plans to blast

Govt procurement prices of rice, paddy raised
The caretaker government yesterday re-fixed the internal procurement prices of Boro paddy and rice in view of the present market rates to provide fair price to the growers.

Proceedings of graft case against Harris Chowdhury adjourned
A Dhaka court adjourned the proceedings of the graft case against former prime minister Khaleda Zia's political secretary Harris Chowdhury until tomorrow as two witnesses did not appear before the court

Rejoinder, our reply
Public Service Commission (PSC) in a rejoinder to a story headlined "Telltale evidence corruption at PSC" published in The Daily Star on May 4 said the report is false and baseless.

Star dies in brightest supernova
US stargazers beheld the most spectacular supernova ever seen when a massive star exploded in a cosmic flash 50 billion times brighter than the sun, the space agency Nasa said on Monday.

Wolfowitz fights to keep job as scandal sends top aide packing
Ethics panel finds him guilty
World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz was fighting to keep his job after a top-level Bank ethics panel ruled he was guilty of a conflict of interest over his girlfriend's pay raise, US media reported yesterday.

Bomb dents Iraqi govt's credibility
16 people killed in car bomb blast
A powerful car bomb exploded in the Iraqi city of Kufa yesterday, killing 16 people and unleashing a wave of anger at the government's apparent inability to protect the Shia heartland.

Hannan Shah, others granted bail in arms case
The High Court (HC) yesterday granted anticipatory bail for six months to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's adviser Brig (retd) Hannan Shah and his associates in an arms case.

CPA urged to restore Bangladesh's membership
Speaker Jamiruddin Sircar yesterday sent a letter to the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) Secretariat in London requesting it to restore Bangladesh's membership in the association.

Police raid 8 DU halls, arrest 12
Police raided eight dormitories of Dhaka University (DU) early hours yesterday and rounded up 12 people -- nine students and three outsiders.

'New dawn' in N Ireland
Former foes sworn in as new leaders
Former Catholic and Protestant rivals were sworn in yesterday as Northern Ireland's new leaders, reviving self-rule here in what Britain called a historic "new dawn" in the long-troubled province.