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Curtain drawn on nomination Defiance rules major parties Pulack Ghatack
With the deadline for submission of nomination papers expiring yesterday, the contestants countrywide have converged on the starting line in the polls race on December 29.
Creating massive disarray in party-discipline, a large number of BNP and Awami League candidates have filed nomination papers as independents in the same constituencies at different places across the country. The anti-graft drive and the subsequent intra party reform feuds seem to have tainted the integrity of the dominant political parties.  |
DU celebrates 400 years of Dhaka
DU Correspondent
The Dhaka University (DU) yesterday observed the "Celebrations of 400 years of Dhaka" as capital amid fanfare and festivity. Vice Chancellor Prof Dr SMA Faiz inaugurated the ceremony at the Mall Chattar on the campus.
The DU campus was decorated to celebrate 400 years of Dhaka. Students carrying various placards, masks, banners and festoons brought out colourful processions from different dormitories that rolled out on the campus and gathered at the Mall Chattar.
Prof SMA Faiz released four pigeons to mark the inauguration of the ceremony and four hundred balloons were also released into the air. |
Nine held for damaging sculptures at Motijheel
Staff Reporter
Police arrested ten Islamic activities after they vandalised a sculpture depicting a group of white storks, in a continuing campaign against statues and artworks in the city.
"We detained eight fanatics for damaging the sculptures at Motijheel around midnight on Saturday," police officer Fazlul Haq told reporters.
Witnesses said around 350 Ulema-e-Anjuman-e-Al-Baiyanat activists gathered around the sculptures with shovels and hammers, chanting slogans calling for the demolition of all stone works, consider to be idols, they say are forbidden by Islam. |
Indian Home Minister resigns over Mumbai attack
Agency, Mumbai
With corpses still being pulled from a once-besieged hotel, India's top security official resigned Sunday as the government struggled under growing accusations of security failures following terror attacks that killed 174 people.
Home Minister Shivraj Patil, who has become highly unpopular during a long series of terror attacks across India, submitted his resignation to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who accepted it, according to the President's Office.
The Cabinet reshuffle comes as a chorus of criticism about the government's handling of the Mumbai attacks grows louder. |
HC bars EPR convicts from contesting polls Staff Reporter
The High Court yesterday said those convicted for more than two years in cases filed under emergency powers rules (EPR) would not be able to contest the forthcoming parliamentary elections, but those sentenced to less than two years may contest in line with the Constitution.
The High Court Bench comprising Justice Nazmun Ara Sultana and Md Rezaul Haque issued the rule on a writ petition filed by former communication minister and BNP leader Barrister Nazmul Huda. |
Reformists still threat to BNP Talha Bin Habib
The BNP reformist candidates yesterday submitted nomination papers as ' individual' candidates for contesting the forthcoming parliamentary elections on December 29.
Some reformist leaders and former MP's of the party who have track records of successive victories in the previous parliamentary polls have submitted their candidature from different constituencies in the country.
The submission of nomination papers by these deprived leaders would certainly pose a potential threat to the BNP candidates in the polls, political analysts said. |
Pak past haunts India BBC Online
Pakistan's reversal of a decision to send the head of its intelligence service to India is a political own goal, following the offer made by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani.
Gilani, whose democratic government is the first in Pakistan for almost a decade, made the offer to show full co-operation with the Indian investigation.
But now a lower official from the Inter Services Agency (ISI) will come instead. |
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Internet Edition. December 1, 2008, Updated: Bangladesh Time 12:00 AM 
