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The cloud overshadowing the post-election Jatiya Party leadership is only deepening. Party chairman HM Ershad is enjoying a friendly detention at Combined Military Hospital (CMH). People don’t clearly know whether his position is pro-government or an anti-government one. If his stance is anti-government he would have been in the jail, if he was pro-government he would have been openly contesting the polls and may be not facing the shameful defeat at Lalmonirhat-1 constituency where he had bagged only 7820 votes...

At least nine people, some of them children, have been killed in a blast at a house in Pakistan’s north-western Khyber tribal area, reports say. The explosion took place in the Tirah Valley, which has seen clashes between Taliban militants and the military. were among those killed but it is not clear if the house belonged to a tribal elder or a member of a militant group. Officials say they are still investigating the nature of the blast. One report...

Sirajganj, Jan 7 (UNB) – A man was killed and three people sustained burn injuries as pickets allegedly set alight a truck on Dhaka-Bogra highway at Horgati in Salanga upazila during the opposition’s hartal on Tuesday evening. The deceased could not be identified yet. Superintendent of Police Imran Hossain of Sirajganj said the hartal supporters torched the Dhaka-bound potato-laden truck at Horgati near Bangabandhu Bridge around 8:15 pm by hurling a petrol bomb. The unidentified man was burnt to death...

The Ganajagaran Mancha has planned an anti-communal march from Dhaka to Jessore on Jan 10-11 in protest against attacks on the minorities after Sunday’s polls. Imran H Sarker, the platform’s spokesperson, made the announcement at a media briefing at Shahbagh on Tuesday. Miscreants attacked, torched and ransacked houses of the Hindu community at various places including Jessore and Dinajpur after the Jan 5 general elections boycotted by the BNP-led 18-party alliance....

The Indian media has not been as scathing as the rest of the international press in its criticism of the elections to the 10th Jatiya Sangshad in Bangladesh held on Sunday, perhaps mindful of its government’s backing for the farcical poll arranged by its traditional ally the Awami League. Zee News, under the headline ‘Bangladesh ruling party wins poll, Sheikh Hasina insists re-election legitimate’ reported that the “outcome of the elections… is no solution to the crisis brewing in the...

Sagar Biswas : The government has decided to show ‘zero tolerance’ to the post-poll violence which was unleashed by opposition BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami across the country. It has already directed the law enforcement agencies to deal with the troublemakers with an iron hand. Official sources said that the government has been apprehending that deadly violence might further spread, especially when the opposition has announced new agitation programmes including hartal and blockade from Monday dawn rejecting the polls. The government wants...

The BNP-led 18-party alliance on Tuesday extended its ongoing 48-hour nationwide hartal by 12 hours until 6pm Wednesday demanding the cancellation of Sunday’s election results. The shutdown that will go alongside its ongoing nonstop countrywide blockade is also meant for protesting the arrest of its leaders and activists, including those picked up today, and the killing of alliance activists ahead and after the election. BNP vice-chairman Selima Rahman came up with the announcement at a press conference at her Gulshan...

Senior Foreign Office Minister of UK Baroness Warsi has urged the new government and all political parties of Bangladesh to act in line with the interests of the people. Commenting on the results of 10th Parliamentary elections in Bangladesh, she said: “We therefore urge the new government and all political parties to act in line with the interests of the people of Bangladesh. Bangladesh is an important partner for the UK and we continue to support its people in their...