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Bangladesh: Hasina and Her Energy Mission
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The Prime Minister as well as Energy Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina in her second intensive meeting with brains of Bangladesh Energy sector since forming government in early January 2009 instructed the power ministry on 2nd April 2009 to resolve electricity crisis as soon as possible. Hasina, who is also in charge of the power and energy ministry, held her second meeting, which lasted three hours and a half, at the ministry to discuss about the current power situation and what steps could be taken to improve.
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Boys and women's misuse in Bangladeshi politics
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At the time of blockade program, AL and their allied parties were frequently using children and women to success their program. On 3 rd December 2006 the picture taken from Maghbazar area justified the claim about the using of boys illegally.
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Jalil demands party council: Meddling in upzila polls decried
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Awami League (AL) General Secretary Abdul Jalil yesterday said that some over-enthusiastic MPs and ministers had stigmatized the image of the party by conducting campaign on behalf of some chairmen candidates in the January 22 upazila elections
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AL plans top-down approach,
BNP for bottom-up
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Major political parties, including the ruling Awami League and the opposition in parliament Bangladesh Nationalist Party, are planning to democratically revitalise respective parties and hold national council sessions after the January 22 upazila elections.
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Concern over checks by small opposition
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Roundtable calls for participatory democracy
Representation of mass people has to be ensured in the next parliament to guarantee accountability of lawmakers and establish participatory democracy in the country, speakers said at a roundtable yesterday.
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Hasina says she was asked in jail to name colleagues working against her
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The Awami League president, Sheikh Hasina, on Tuesday said that when she was in jail, the authorities had approached her for names of her party colleagues who she thought were harmful to her, so that they could be punished.
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BJP’s application for registration ‘unfit’
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The Election Commission (EC) asked Bangladesh Jatiya Party (BJP) to reapply for registration as the party's previous application failed to prove fit...
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Emergency may be relaxed in November: Iftekhar
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The caretaker government may relax the state of emergency next month that will coincide with the arrival of a European Commission (EC) delegation, said Foreign Adviser Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury Tuesday.
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Khaleda asks party men to do constructive politics
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BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday said party leaders have been assigned to prepare the party's future plans for the country and taskforc-like subcommittees have been formed for making preparations for the upcoming parliamentary polls.
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Bhuiyan to run elections
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Former BNP secretary general Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan has said he would run general elections for the sake of the people of his home constituency Shibpur in Narsingdi.
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BNP forms 5-man panel to draft agenda of talks with govt
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BNP Thursday formed a 5-member committee, headed by its standing-committee member Tanvir Ahmed Siddiqui, for drafting the agenda of their planned dialogue with the caretaker government likely on October 15 for a final say on the upcoming elections, reports UNB.
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News analysis: Deep hole in the heart of body politic
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The announcement of the dates of Parliamentary and Upazila elections by the government has let loose drum beating by those who eagerly await those
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Politics goes bipartisan: Mahajote revived before Hasina-Khaleda talks
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The recent initiative to hold a grand meeting between BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina has generated controversy in different quarters. Barrister Rafiqul Haque, the common lawyer of the two top leaders,
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