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Implement package offer fully within 24 hours
14 party, allies warn otherwise they can't join polls in 90 days
The Awami League (AL)-led 14-party coalition and its allies yesterday jointly issued a 24-hour ultimatum to the caretaker government (CG) to implement fully the package proposal negotiated between them,
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Voter list correction starts in a loose manner
The much talked about correction on the voter list in eight days began yesterday across the country amid lack of proper guidelines, preparation, and interest among the field level staff in deleting duplicate
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BNP faces tough task to please ticket seekers
Aspirants in 30 constituencies may create risk
The BNP might have a great difficulty nominating candidates for at least 30 constituencies with many of the aspirants already threatening not to accept decisions leaving them out of the party ticket for
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Yunus leaves for Oslo to receive prize
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus yesterday left Dhaka for the Norwegian capital Oslo to receive the most prestigious award at an official ceremony tomorrow.
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Advisers may sit today to resolve Zakaria issue
The team of advisers to the caretaker government, formed for talks with the political parties, may sit today to resolve the latest crisis that emerged as Election Commissioner SM Zakaria rejected theproposal
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4-paty rally in city today
The BNP-led four-party alliance will hold a rally at the capital's Muktangon today and bring out a procession form there to protest against "the vandalism in the chief justice's office and court, creating
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Unfit vessels allowed to operate at Ctg port
Underhand dealings with ship surveyors alleged
Many unfit and unsurveyed inland ships are sailing in and around the Chittagong Port channel and the Bay of Bengal misusing temporary 'tokens' issued by a section of dishonest ship surveyors in exchange
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Garos celebrate Wangala
Responding to the call of nakma, a Garo tribal leader, thousands of urban Garo people yesterday gathered on a school playground in the capital to celebrate Wangala, the centuries-old harvest festival
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Blueprint to rig polls will be thwarted: Oli
Executive President of Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Col (retd) Oli Ahmed yesterday said the four -party alliance's "blueprint" to rig the elections will be thwarted through a vigorous movement jointly
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Bangladesh closer to whitewash
Bangladesh showed visiting Zimbabwe no mercy to extend their lead to 4-0 in the five-match one-day series with an eight-wicket victory in the fourth game yesterday.
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Recommendations on citizens' dialogue today
Citizens' Forum, a civil society initiative for accountable development, will present the recommendations emerging from the citizens' dialogues held across the country at a programme at the Bangladesh-China
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Nepali Maoist chief eyes presidency
Maoist warlord turned statesman Prachanda said he is willing to serve as president of a future Nepal republic, and that only a "small, rich and corrupt clique" wants to retain the monarchy, a news report
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King pays tax for first time
Nepal's King Gyanendra and his son, Crown Prince Paras, were forced to pay customs tax to collect shipped goods at the airport in a first for the embattled royal family, officials said.
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Fiji suspended from C'wealth after coup
Fiji is to be immediately suspended from the Commonwealth following a military coup there earlier this week, ministers at an emergency meeting of the grouping in London announced yesterday.
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Correction
A quote of Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mujahid was not published correctly in a news headlined "Spoke put in advisers' EC recast wheel" in yesterday's issue of The Daily Star.
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Correction
In a report titled '15000 hajj pilgrims keep fingers crossed for flights', published in The Daily Star on December 5, Syed Ahsan Hossain Kazi's name was printed as deputy general manager (public relations)
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