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Talks a stage-managed drama: Khaleda: Key political parties being barred from contesting polls, she says
Bdnews24.com, Dhaka
Detained former prime minister Khaleda Zia said yesterday the government dialogue with political parties was a "stage-managed drama".
The BNP chairperson alleged that the caretaker administration was plotting a repeat of the 1986 election.
"If the government had really been willing to hold the polls, it would have considered participation of big parties in dialogue. Talks are a stage-managed drama," Khaleda said in a special judge's court on the Jatiya Sangsad complex, during a hearing into charges against her in the GATCO scam case.  |
Obama claims Democratic nomination: Hillary yet to concede defeat
BBC Online
Barack Obama has declared himself "the Democratic nominee for president of the United States".
He was speaking to a cheering crowd on the last day of the primary season, after receiving the support of enough delegates to clinch the nomination.
Of the states that voted, Montana was won by Obama and South Dakota by his rival Hillary Clinton. If confirmed, Obama would be the first black candidate to represent a major party in a US presidential poll.
In her own speech to supporters, Mrs Clinton refused to concede and said she would make a final decision later. |
$249m plan to modernise railway
Shamim Jahangir
The Bangladesh Railway (BR) has taken up a project styled "Railway Modernisation Project" at a cost of $249 million dollar to modernise the railway within 2015. The BR has already completed the feasibility study of the project, said the official sources.
The World Bank financed project is learnt to be launched from next year.
Of the total outlay of the project, the World Bank will provide $200 million dollar and Bangladesh government $49.50 million dollar. |
Countrywide drive: 1,976 more nabbed
Staff Reporter
The country's 67 jails have now become overcrowded with thousands of detainees following the wholesale arrest of people by joint forces under the ongoing special anti-crime drives.
More than 12,500 people were arrested by joint forces during the last eight days of countrywide crackdown.
A total of 1,976 people were arrested from different parts of the country yesterday alone. Of them, 191 were arrested from different areas of the Dhaka city from Tuesday midnight to yesterday morning. Most of these detainees, who became the victims of wholesale arrests, are belonged to lower income groups. |
Musharraf agrees to quit
Reuters, Islamabad
Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf, threatened by possible impeachment, is reconciled to stepping down before he is hounded out of office, according to a senior adviser to the new government.
U.S. ally Musharraf, who came to power as a general after a coup in 1999, has probably got a matter of weeks, at most a few months, before the curtain falls, political insiders say.
"He is prepared to go and go with dignity," said the source close to the leadership of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), which heads the 2-month-old coalition government. |
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Internet Edition. June 5, 2008, Updated: Bangladesh Time 12:00 AM 
