Bangladesh: Today’s Top Stories

Bangladesh's election commissioners resign (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Bangladesh's five top election officials resigned following efforts by the country's new caretaker government to end months of political deadlock and pave the way for free and fair polls.
Bomb kills Bangladesh policeman (BBC News)
A policeman has been killed in a bomb attack in Gazipur district, some 40kms north of Bangladesh's capital city of Dhaka. Police said another officer was also injured in the attack.
Battling begums blight Bangladesh (Times Online)
As political soap operas go, few come as melodramatic as the rivalry between the two political doyennes of Bangladesh. Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina Wajed, alternately Prime Minister and Opposition Leader for the past 16 years, do not just disagree. They hate each other with such venom that they have not spoken in a decade and cannot stand to be in the same room.
Bangladesh Islamists confident of expanding hold (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
When Islamist militants set off some 500 bombs across Bangladesh in 2005, many thought the blasts had also dealt a deadly blow to the country's largest Islamist political party.
Bangladesh's economy groans under weight of politics (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Bangladesh's economy is a picture of stark contrasts and so are the choices it faces. The South Asian nation of 140 million people is one of the poorest on earth, where nearly half the population lives in extreme poverty, surviving on less than a dollar a day.

January 31. 2007 in Bangladesh News | 0 Comment

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