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KHALEDA'S RELEASE IMMINENT
Coco released on parole
Abdur Rahman Khan
Arafat Rahman Coco, youngest son of President Zia and former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, has been released from prison on parole as prelude to reach negotiations with BNP over the exit plan of the present interim Caretaker Government (CG) headed by Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed...[ FULL STORY ]
CG cannot take decision on transit
Amanullah Kabir
Does the interim Caretaker Government (CG) have the authority to extend extraordinary territorial facilities like transit to neighbouring India or any other country for that matter, which involves the nation's security? The answer is an emphatic no because the Constitution does not permit the CG to do so...[ FULL STORY ]
MANIPULATION HARMS STOCK INVESTORS
Strict monitoring by SEC needed to correct situation
Faruque Ahmed
Transactions in the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) as well as Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) over the past couple of months were on the rise. It happened because as a sequel to the slowing down of business and the economy since last year, common people and retail investors turned to the stock market to put their money and earn a profit...[ FULL STORY ]
US, Iran to sit across the same table
Fazle Rashid in New York
After nearly three decades of hostility, the US and Iran will sit across the same table. This is the first highest level contact between the two countries since the 1979 revolution...[ FULL STORY ]
POLITICAL SCENE
Mutation of old politics begins
Muyeedul Hasan
On the surface, the progress towards ending authoritarian political order appears to be slow, sometimes halting. But, in my view, there has been some real progress, which may continue till the general election, and perhaps beyond. The substance of authority, both de jure and de facto, of the top political leadership, stopped functioning since January '07, their images now are in peril, the overt apparatus of their goons are severely damaged, their covert support base within the administration badly disarrayed, and their money machines seriously disrupted...[ FULL STORY ]
GLIMPSES OF THE GREAT
Sheikh Abdullah
K. Z. Islam
Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah (1905-1982), known as Sher-e-Kashmir (the Lion of Kashmir) was the leader of the National Conference, Kashmir's largest political party, and one of the most important political figures in the modern history of Jammu and Kashmir...[ FULL STORY ]
LEAD OVER McCAIN REDUCES TO 5 POINT
Obama for containing terrorism in Afghanistan
Moinuddin Naser in New York
Barack Obama's lead over John McCain in the US presidential election 2008 is reducing and now it has come down to 5-point edge against double digit lead in the month of June. The CNN latest poll of polls shows that the Illinois senator is leading McCain 47 per cent to 42 per cent in an average of three recent national surveys...[ FULL STORY ]
IT IS "WORSE THAN USELESS": CONGRESSMAN EDWARD MARKEY
Deceptions surface in Indo-US nuke deal
Praful Bidwai in New Delhi
The Indian government has taken a major step towards completing its controversial nuclear cooperation deal with the United States by moving the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency for approving an inspections (safeguards) agreement it signed last year with the IAEA secretariat pertaining to civilian nuclear reactors...[ FULL STORY ]
Govt. to solve water-logging crisis in southwestern region
Special Correspondent
Attending a view exchange programme with the grassroots level people in Keshabpur, Jessore, Chief Adviser Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed last week referred to water-logging and river siltation as a number one ecological problem affecting the southwestern region of the country...[ FULL STORY ]
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