In this December 5 Focus Bangla photo, BNP leader Sadeque Hossain Khoka waves to party activists while being taken to a Dhaka court.
Afghan policemen keep watch at the area where the Loya Jirga will take place later this week, in Kabul November 19, 2013. Thousands of Afghan tribal and political leaders...
The tasks the caretaker governments accomplished with ease not once but thrice, the newly reconstituted Hasina-government would do with four times manpower.
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The Rana Plaza factory building in Bangladesh after it collapsed in April, killing over 1,132 garment workers.
Amid the unity factor looming overhead, the 18-party opposition alliance is planning to enforce another spell of four to five days' countrywide hartal next week demanding a non-party election-time government.
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Law enforcers fire tear shells on the agitating garments workers in Jamgarah area of Ashulia today. Photo: Star
"> Nisha Desai BiswalUS Assistant Secretary of State Nisha Desai Biswal sees talks as an even more urgent priority now that an interim cabinet has been announced.
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The election-time government formed yesterday through reshuffling of the cabinet will have no limitation on its powers and functions. The constitution allows it to work unhindered and it will be able to make any policy decision that could even influence the election.
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Two garment workers were killed and 50 were injured, four of bullet-hit, during a clash with police in Kashimpur of Gazipur this afternoon.
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The BNP-led 18-party alliance will bring out "black-flag" processions across the country today to protest yesterday's cabinet meeting of "ministers who have already resigned".
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