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  No extension of ECF deal with IMF: Muhith    

Finance minister AMA Muhith on Sunday said the government turned down a proposal from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to renew the deal on extended credit facility that will expire early next year. He said the government would also fix a deadline for the Korean Export Processing Zone for full utilisation of 2,500 acres of land they were allocated in 1996 at Anwara in Chittagong. Muhith was taking to reporters after a meeting with the visiting Asian Development Bank officials at his secretariat office, reports the New Age. MuhithHe said ...

India initiates work to link Northeast with Bangladesh port

India has taken the first steps to construct a Rs.70 crore ($11.5 million) bridge over the Feni river in Tripura to access Bangladeshi ports for transporting goods and heavy machinery from other parts of the country to the landlocked and mountainous northeast and to boost trade and tourism, officials said. “The Tripura government has asked a New Delhi-based private company to prepare the detailed project report (DPR). We expect that the DPR would be ready by December this year and the actual work to construct the bridge would start after that,” Tripura Public Works Department engineer-in-chief Sunil Bhowmik told IANS.

Politics in Bangladesh: One and only one

 As the opposition takes a break from politics, the government tightens its grip

 THE Supreme Court of Bangladesh has just rejected appeals by a former prime minister, Khaleda Zia, over the appointment of a judge in a corruption case against her. The ruling clears the way for Mrs Zia to stand trial. Prosecutors accuse her of having siphoned off cash from charitable trusts set up in memory of her late husband, Ziaur Rahman, who was an army leader at independence and was later assassinated as president. If found guilty, the country’s second-most-powerful woman could face time in jail.

Narayanganj 7-murder: Rab officers ‘asked to kill Nur too’

A top official of the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) had ordered former Rab officers Lt Col Tareque Sayeed Mohammad and Maj Arif Hossain to kill Nur Hossain, alleged mastermind of the seven-murder incident in Narayanganj. The top official gave the order when Tareque, commanding officer (CO) of Rab 11, and Arif, company commander of the elite force unit, met him at the Rab headquarters two days after a Rab team led by Arif had killed Narayanganj City Corporation panel mayor Nazrul Islam and six others, reports the Daily Star. They, however, did not execute the order as the situation in Narayanganj had already heated up following the abduction, sources said quoting from the confessional statement of Arif Hossain.

Separation of powers in Bangladesh under threat

Bangladesh MPs passed a controversial amendment to the country's constitution that grants the parliament authority to investigate and sack judges of the nation's Supreme Court. DW examines the decision. The verdict could not have been clearer: With 327 votes to 0, the parliament in Dhaka voted on September 17 for the ruling party Awami League's (AL) so-called constitutional 16th Amendment. The new amendment bestows parliament the power to investigate and sack the South Asian nation's top judges on the grounds of incapability and misconduct. The reason for such a unanimous decision: The country's main opposition party - Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) - has no representation in the legislature as it boycotted the parliamentary elections held earlier this year.

Can ‘womenomics’ stem the feminisation of poverty in Japan?

Fifty-four-year-old Marlyn Maeda, an unmarried freelance writer living in Tokyo who never held a permanent job, is now watching her dream of aging independently go up in smoke. “I work four jobs and barely survive,” said the writer, who disclosed only her penname to IPS. Her monthly income after writing articles, working at a call centre, selling cosmetics five days a week and working one night at a bar hovers at close to 1,600 dollars. solar JapanMaeda belongs to the burgeoning ranks of the poor in Japan, a country that saw its pover...
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