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Nearly a million scholars, clerics and pilgrims from home and abroad assembled at Tongi near capital Dhaka as Biswa Ijtema, the second largest Muslim congregation after the Haj, began yesterday amid tight security.

Blamed for acting against the interests of the country, opposition leader Sheikh Hasina Wajed yesterday said she feared the government could try to kill her after it accused her of spreading reports of an Al Qaida presence in the country.

PM honours female achievers

Prime Minister Khaleda Zia yesterday said her one-year-old government had been successful in restoring restore economic discipline, placing the economy on the development track, and curbing the corruption and wastage bred by the misrule of the Awami League government.

BNP yet to announce candidate

More than 4,000 doctors, medical teaching staff, technicians and paramedics will head for jobs in Saudi Arabia soon, Prime Minister Khaleda Zia said yesterday while announcing various steps for the medical sector.

The eighth parliament goes into its fourth session today as the main opposition Awami League plans to come down hard on the ruling party on issues such as police atrocities against students, rising political persecution and the wheat scam.

The main opposition Awami League yesterday enforced a day-long general strike across Bangladesh protesting Friday's attack on the party chief and former prime minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed.

Yazuddin is BNP's candidate

Authorities closed Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology indefinitely yesterday following weeks of student unrest.

Professor Iajuddin Ahmed was sworn in yesterday as the new president of Bangladesh. Chief Justice Mainur Reza Chowdhury administrated the oath at a simple ceremony at Bangabhaban, the presidential palace.

A half-day general strike shut down Dhaka's schools, shops and banks yesterday and brought life to a standstill.