100 hurt as Islamist activists clash
with police
Shotgun snatched from havildar
More than 100 people, including journalists, policemen and pedestrians, were injured as Islamist party activists on Friday clashed with the lawmen, turning Paltan in Dhaka into a battlefield for more than three hours.....[ + ]
Free Hasina or face
street movement,
AL tells govt
Awami League leaders on Friday renewed their call for unconditional release of Sheikh Hasina and warned the government of street movement if it did not meet the demand immediately. ‘Release our leader [Hasina] immediately… If the people feel that the government is paying no heed to our demands, they will take to the streets and make the free her’, the party’s presidium member Amir Hussain Amu said at a hunger strike organised by the Swadhinata Chikitsak Parishad...[ + ]
BNP, splinter group
bank on grassroots support
The mainstream Bangladesh Nationalist Party has intensified its efforts to maintain its support bases at the grassroots level and influence on the front organisations following the High Court’s dismissal of the writ petition filed by the party chairperson, Khaleda Zia, challenging the validity of the Election Commission’s invitation to the splinter group of the party to talks on electoral reform.[ + ]
Subsidies, market management obsess budget planners
Soaring prices, market management failures, problem of reaching diesel and fertiliser subsidies to marginal farmers and unsustainable state-owned enterprises are among the issues which will rule the minds of budget planners...[ + ]
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