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Dialogue begins today: Curtain rises with Bikalpa Dhara, Workers Party on stage Staff Reporter
All eyes are on the Chief Adviser's Office, as the much-talked about formal dialogue between the Government and the political parties begins today with two smaller parties with the aim to work out a National Charter on future governance, politics and economy on the basis of consensus arrived at the discussion, amidst uncertainty about the participation of three major players in the moot.  |
Repeated concessions to weaken admn: Experts: Businesses for more scope to whiten black money
Staff Reporter
After one year and a half of massive anti-corruption drive Government officials, top business leaders and academics yesterday admitted the existence of a huge black money in the economy and debated on offering further opportunities to legalise the same.
They were speaking at a discussion on 'Budget for 2008-09: Reality and Expectation' y organised by Economic Reporters' Forum (ERF) at Dhaka Reporters' Unit.
President of the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) Annisul Huq sought one last chance for businessmen to legalise undeclared money. |
US doesn’t want to see Musharraf- type regime in Bangladesh: Political situation may deteriorate if poll not held in time: Moriarty
UNB, Dhaka
The United States does not want to see a repeat of Pakistan President Gen Pervez Musharraf government's nemesis in Bangladesh, said the new American envoy Wednesday in his elaborate remarks on the country's political scenario.
"Pakistani President Musharraf had accomplished a lot of things and initially he had some sort of popularity. But, at last, his government had to face downfall. We don't want to see that sort of development in Bangladesh also," said James Moriarty at a luncheon meeting of the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) at the Sheraton Hotel. |
Aga Khan meets President: World ties with Ismaili community to grow
BSS, Dhaka
President Professor Dr Iajuddin Ahmed and visiting Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslim Community Prince Karim Aga Khan on Wednesday expressed hope that the ties between Bangladesh and Ismaili community would be strengthened further with the expanding cooperation in various fields of development of the country.
Foreign Affair Adviser Dr Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury said this when he was talking to the reporters emerging out of a call on meeting between the President and the Ismaili community Chief at Bangabhaban here. |
Roundtable on national govt: Election by Dec must for restoring democracy BSS, Dhaka
Speakers at a roundtable here on Wednesday said the country must return to democracy by January next under honest and dedicated leadership through a free and fair election.
If there are necessities for consensus on certain political agenda specially a national government that may be formed by the elected leaders after the election, they said.
The roundtable on 'Prospect of National Government in Bangladesh' was organised by Bangladesh Heritage Foundation (BHF) at BILIA auditorium at Dhanmondi here. |
If political leaders fail, the care-taker govt can’t
The process of political dialogue begins tomorrow 'to create environment to hold a free, fair, proper and meaningful election acceptable to all' but the call for the preparation of a 'Jatiya Sanad' (national charter) on the norms of political behaviour as the Chief Adviser urged in his address to the nation on 12 May does not look easy to achieve. The two major political parties - the BNP and the Awami League - have made release of their party chiefs conditional to their participation in the same. |
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Internet Edition. May 22, 2008, Updated: Bangladesh Time 12:00 AM 
