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Hasina released for 8 weeks: Set to leave for US today:AL team led by party chief joins dialogue with govt advisers
Staff Reporter
Exit deal: Release order can be cancelled anytime without assigning any reason, AL chief can’t make any statement while abroad, Refraining from street agitation at home and abroad, Participation in polls as per roadmap, Release of those leaders who are convicted in graft case cannot be demanded, Return to the country as per commitment.
Former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was released yesterday after 16 months on parole for eight weeks for medical treatment abroad on condition that she would not issue political and anti-government statements at home and abroad during the period.  |
ALWC meets: Zillur to lead AL in formal dialogue: Hasina demands lifting of emergency, budget announced violating constitution
Staff Reporter
Awami League acting president Zillur Rahman will lead the party to dialogue with the caretaker government in absence of just released party chief Sheikh Hasina, who is likely to leave the country this morning for treatment abroad.
This was decided at the party's working committee meeting held at Sudha Sadan in Dhanmondi last night.
Besides, four Advisers of the caretaker government went to Sudha Sadan last night to meet with Hasina and discuss with her about her party's joining the dialogue with the government. |
Release of Khaleda, sons under govt consideration
Shahidul Islam
Sending her elder son Tarique Rahman abroad for medical treatment and returning of the money he laundered abroad are delaying the release of detained Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia and her younger son Arafat Rahman Koko release on parole, sources close to the negotiators told The New Nation yesterday.
Begum Zia, also the BNP Chairperson, is pressing for the release of her elder simultaneously along with her and Koko while the official negotiators telling that Tarique Rahman will meet them abroad later on. |
Aug 21 grenade attack: Ex-minister Pintu, Hannan among 28 chargesheeted
Staff Reporter
A charge sheet was submitted to court yesterday in sensational August 21 grenade attack case making 28 accused including former education minister Abdus Salam Pintu and banned Islamist outfit Harkatul Jihad leader Mufti Hannan.
The charge sheet was submitted after long four years of barbaric and heinous attack on Awami League rally at Bangabandhu Avenue in the city on August 21, 2004 that left 24 people dead and several hundred seriously injured. |
BRAC won’t interfere in primary school affairs: Improvement of teachers' quality only goal: Abed
Staff Reporter
Founder chairperson of BRAC Fazle Hasan Abed has said the BRAC was not interested to interfere in the administration of government primary schools.
"We want to ensure that BRAC will not interfere with any of the administrative affairs of the schools. The government has only vested the duty of improving the quality of the teachers," he said at a press conference at Dhaka Sheraton Hotel yesterday.
At present, the quality of education at BRAC schools is better than that of government-run primary schools, he claimed. |
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Internet Edition. June 12, 2008, Updated: Bangladesh Time 12:00 AM 
