Globetrotting

Bangla rally

DHAKA: Police on Sunday prepared for Monday8217;s opposition-sponsored march to the Bangladesh parliament in central Dhaka by blocking routes to enforce a ban on demonstrations, even as former prime minister Begum Khaleda Zia called for unseating the government through street protests. The BNP 8220;March to Parliament8221; programme comes only three days after a three-day shutdown enforced by the opposition that left seven people dead and500 others injured in violence across Bangladesh.

Yeltsin rebuked

MOSCOW: Former prime minister and presidential hopeful Viktor Chernomyrdin publicly chastised President Boris Yeltsin on Saturday for the first time in their turbulent political relationship, NTV reported. At a meeting here, he criticised Yeltsin for indecision and ineffectiveness. 8220;The President more and more often exhibits an inability to comprehend and appraise the situation, to make well thought-out decisions, to strive to put them into practice,8221; he said.