Exile saga drags
on, leaders
yet to budge
Uncertainty continues to persist in the political arena as the interim government and its military backers face continued resistance from the BNP chairperson, Khaleda Zia, and the Awami League president, Sheikh Hasina, to their adamant plan to launch a new political order by keeping the two leaders out of the frame...[ + ]
Hasina denied
passage to Dhaka,
vows return
The Awami League president, Sheikh Hasina, on Sunday could not get on a plane back home as the British Airways denied her a boarding pass to fly from London’s Heathrow airport to Dhaka..[ + ]
Govt gets 5 days to explain Khaleda’s
‘confinement’
The High Court on Sunday issued a rule on the government to explain within five days why it would not be directed to produce former prime minister Khaleda Zia in court to show that she is not detained or confined in her cantonment house...[ + ]
ADP to see its biggest
cut in decade
The Tk 26,000 crore annual development programme of the current fiscal year is likely to be trimmed to Tk 21,600 crore mainly due to poor internal revenue income and dismal state of foreign fund disbursements, sources said. The slash of Tk 4,400 crore, which is 16.92 per cent of the original outlay, will be the highest in a decade, showed the planning commission statistics...[ + ]
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The country’s exports in eight months of the current fiscal grew by 21 per cent to $8 billion, propelled by good performance in the readymade garment and frozen food sectors. According to the July-February data of 2006-07 released by the Export Promotion Bureau on Sunday, total export earnings stood at $8,024 million crossing the target of $7,970 million...[ + ]
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