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IRAN ATTACK RUMOUR HIKES FUEL PRICE
Iraq, Afghan wars to end with nuke strike?
M. Shahidul Islam
The wars that have destroyed much of Iraq and Afghanistan since the 'dubious' attacks on the USA in September 2001 are likely to end with a nuclear showdown and the accompanying raging of 'ball of fire...[ FULL STORY ]
RIVER EROSION TAKING ALARMING TURN
Thousands homeless, border demarcation line changing
Abdur Rahman Khan
Thousands of people have been rendered homeless because of massive river bank erosion and thousands more are passing their days in agony as the rivers of Bangladesh are turning furious with the onset of active monsoon and the rise of water. The strong current has been continuing to erode villages, homestead, cropland, markets and infrastructures spreading along the river coastline from Lalmonirhat in the north to Cox's Bazaar in the South, from Gumti in the eastern border district of Comilla to Icchamoti in Kushtia in the west...[ FULL STORY ]
LEVEL PLAYING FIELD FOR POLITICIANS?
Khaleda, sons yet to get bails
Special Correspondent
The High Court's staying of the Niko case against former Prime Minister and BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia and caretaker government's Chief Advisers' statement about creation of a level playing field for BNP are being perceived by the party leaders as an indication to release her from special jail in a short time...[ FULL STORY ]
POLITICAL PARTIES CONDEMN THE MOVE
Delhi trying to force strategic concessions from Dhaka
Faruque Ahmed
The Indian government has presented a draft agreement to the Bangladesh government recently on land transit for free movement of cargo and passenger transports through Bangladesh to its north-eastern states of Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram...[ FULL STORY ]
Govt-Awami League rapport puts 'king's parties in great dilemma
Md. Mahtabuddin
An understanding between the caretaker government (CG) and the Awami League (AL) has changed the total scenario of politics in Bangladesh. Situation has taken a U-tern. The Progressive Democtratic Party (PDP), Gono Forum, LDP, Bikalpadhara, Kalyan Party and pro-establishment Islamic parties have been pushed aside from the scene of power politics. Now the Awami League is back on the political scene as a determining force. So the safe exit of the CG will be possible with the help of Awami League and its allies. In the changed situation the CG is now busy with the AL-led 14-party alliance which accepted the roadmap of election...[ FULL STORY ]
COMMUNISTS QUIT DELHI CONGRESS GOVT.
US Congress unlikely to ink Indo-US nuclear deal
Fazle Rashid in New York
There have been warnings galore worldwide. So far, only one has been acted upon. The Communist Parties in India, coalition partners of the Congress Coalition Government at the centre, have withdrawn their support protesting Dr. Manmohon Singh's unilateral bid to clinch a nuclear deal with the US which has long been hanging in limbo...[ FULL STORY ]
BTMA criticises CG for easing rules on Indian yarns import
Holiday Desk
The yarn manufacturers of Bangladesh have expressed concern as the Caretaker Government (CG) has recently taken the decision of easing the rules and regulations for importing yarns from India through Benapole land port, saying that it will adversely affect the country's spinning industry...[ FULL STORY ]
GLIMPSES OF THE GREAT
Barack Obama
K.Z. Islam
Barack Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961, the son of Kenyan father Barack Hussein Obama and a Kansas-born mother who met as student at the University of Hawaii. His parents divorced after his father left to pursue graduate work at Harvard when Obama was two years old. Father and son would meet only one more time before the elder Barack Obama died in a 1982 car accident after returning to Kenya...[ FULL STORY ]
FATAL SCARCITY OF EQUIPMENT AT IRAQI HOSPITAL
Patients in oil-rich Kirkuk dying on operating tables
Ayub Nuri in Kirkuk
Shortages at Kirkuk hospital's neurosurgery unit are such that surgeons ask the families of patients to go out and buy the basic tools required for surgical operation. This is happening in Iraq, a country where medical care is supposed to be free and that too in a city which is pumping hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil worth millions of dollars a day...[ FULL STORY ]
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