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Tearful Sonia turns down PM job
Manmohan Singh tipped to head new government
Italian-born Sonia Gandhi tearfully bowed out of the race yesterday to become India's prime minister and rejected boisterous appeals from her Congress party MPs to reconsider the decision, opening the
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AL, BNP leadership degrade democracy
Rocca tells AmCham luncheon
Visiting US Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia Christina Rocca yesterday blamed the leadership of the two main political parties for degrading democratic practice in Bangladesh.
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No more concessions, PM warns rivals
Opens Lalon Shah Bridge
Prime Minister Khaleda Zia yesterday warned her political opponents that no more concession would be given to those who are pursuing politics of arson and destruction to create chaos.
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NCBs to collect at least 20pc of top default loans
The four Nationalised Commercial Banks (NCBs) will have to collect at least 20 percent of their default loans from the top 20 defaulters of each of them by December this year, according to a new plan.
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Outlaws slaughter 2 Bangla Bhai men
Set fire to three houses
Underground outlaws slaughtered two operatives of Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB), injured six others and launched arson attacks on three houses in Naogaon on Monday.
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Mysterious death of rhino
Twelve-year-old Kancha, the male of the lone rhino couple of Dhaka zoo, died yesterday noon apparently after it slid down the stairs to the water tub on Sunday morning.
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Tigers leave out Kapali
Alok Kapali has been dropped from the Bangladesh squad for the third and final one-day international against the West Indies at the Queen's Park Stadium here on Wednesday.
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Criminals clash with cops
4 gangsters killed, 19 including 5 border guards injured in hour-long fight
Four gangsters were killed and at least 19 others, including five law enforcers, were injured in a fierce gunfight between a criminal gang and a joint contingent of police and Bangladesh Rifles (BDR)at
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Saifur agrees to give direct farm subsidy
Asks NGOs to formulate modality
The finance minister at a pre-budget meeting yesterday agreed in principle to a proposal of the NGOs to give direct subsidy to farmers to help keep agricultural production cost down at a reasonable level.
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Maj Mannan stops campaigning
Says BNP cadres tried to kill him yesterday, seeks EC's protection
Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh (BDB) candidate for Dhaka-10 parliamentary by-polls retired army major MA Mannan has alleged that ruling BNP cadres attempted to kill him during an election campaign at Tejgaon
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Ershad cases stalk JP
Leaders divided over how to face 'coercion'
Jatiya Party (Ershad) is in tight corners with ruling parties using the dozen-plus pending cases against its Chairman HM Ershad as weapons to curtail its freedom of independent political stance as anopposition,
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20 Palestinians die in Israel raid
At least 20 Palestinians were killed and more than 30 wounded early yesterday as dozens of Israeli tanks and hundreds of troops swept through this Gaza refugee camp in one of the bloodiest operationsof
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Ahsanullah Killing
Fourth accused escaped arrest
There was yet another accused in the Ahsanullah Master murder case holed up in the North Badda house from where police arrested three on May 14.
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MP murder, Bangla Bhai top Rocca-Hasina talks
US Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia Christina Rocca yesterday met Leader of the Opposition President Sheikh Hasina and discussed recent assassination of AL lawmaker Ahsanullah Master,
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6 JS bodies inactive for key vacancies
At least six parliamentary standing committees on different ministries are facing difficulty in holding meetings as key posts remain vacant following death or resignation of committee chairmen or dueto
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Detectives seize arms
Detective police yesterday recovered four small arms from a house in Shahidbagh, Dhaka and arrested its tenant.
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OC dies in truck chase
AKM Muhiuddin, officer-in-charge (OC) of city's Motijheel Police Station, died of cardiac arrest after a chase against an errant truck in the early hours of yesterday.
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Arson Attack
UCBL phone operator remanded
A Dhaka court yesterday placed a telephone operator of the United Commercial Bank Limited (UCBL), who is reportedly an associate of the car driver who allegedly set fire to a female employee of the bank
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Bomb scare at DU turns a hoax
Moviegoers at the Teacher Student Centre (TSC) auditorium of Dhaka University yesterday felt the chill down their spines from a bomb alarm, which was proved a hoax.
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30 hurt as JCD factions clash at BAU
At least 30 activists of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) were injured in a clash between two factions of the pro-BNP student body at Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) in the early hours of yesterday.
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