The Bangladesh Today

thursday, august 28, 2008
Bhadra 13, SHABAN 26, 1429 Hijri

 

Editor : Colonel Mahmud ur Rahman Choudhury(Retd)

 
  HC grants him bail in 11 cases out of 12 » EC preparing to hold UZ polls tentatively on Oct 23 » Extremism, terrorism, extortion to be rooted out: IGP » Pakistan govt reappoints eight sacked judges » Hillary urges party to back Obama » OMS operation receives lackluster response » Poverty falling, except in Africa:WB » BRTA keeping its eyes shut to disorder in bus fare » Execution of fishermen-friendly policy needed for dev of fish resources » Raina, Dhoni hit half-centuries in fourth ODI » England thrashes South Africa by 10 wickets

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 Process in releasing Tarique is on verge: Home Adviser
HC grants him bail in 11 cases out of 12

 

BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Tarique Rahman will be released anytime as the government has started taking the issue seriously and the High Court ........More
 


EC preparing to hold UZ polls tentatively on Oct 23
Political leaders will be allowed to participate in election campaign
 

The Election Commission (EC) is taking preparations with a tentative date on October 23 for holding the upazila polls as per its earlier announcement .......More

 


Photo: Focus Bangla



Extremism, terrorism, extortion to be rooted out: IGP  
 

Inspector General of Police Nur Muhammad on Wednesday said extremism, terrorism and extortion would be rooted out with people's participation .......More

 

 
 Other Headlines

» Pakistan govt reappoints eight sacked judges
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Hillary urges party to back Obama
» OMS operation receives lackluster response

» Poverty falling, except in Africa:WB
»
BRTA keeping its eyes shut to disorder in bus fare
»
Execution of fishermen-friendly policy needed for dev of fish resources
» Raina, Dhoni hit half-centuries in fourth ODI
»
England thrashes South Africa by 10 wickets 


 

 

Analysis

On the boil

Barely a week after the Gauhati High Court, in a judgment and order passed on July 25, observed that "Bangladeshis in Assam have become the kingmakers" and "a strong political will to free Assam from illegal Bangladeshis is the need of the hour coupled with public activism in that direction", Assam was on the boil once again over the vexed "foreigners" issue.
Activists of the All Assam Students' Union (AASU), the Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuba-Chatra Parishad (AJYCP) and the Bharatiya Janata Yuba .
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Viewpoints

Russia vs Georgia: The fallout

The Russia-Georgia conflict has transformed the contemporary geopolitical world, with large consequences for peace and security in Europe and beyond. Moscow's initial moves into South Ossetia as large-scale violence broke out there on 7-8 August were in part a response to a disastrous miscalculation by a Georgian leadership that was impatient with gradual confidence building and a Russian-dominated negotiations .......More