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WTO comes under LDC wrath over trade barrier
Second ministerial conference begins
The World Trade Organisation and the developed nations yesterday came under severe criticism from the least developed countries (LDCs) at the opening session of the three-day second conference of trade
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Containers pile up as foreign feeder vessels stay away from port
Over 700 containers were piled up at the Chittagong Port yesterday, the first day of suspension of operation by major foreign feeder vessel operators.
 
Dhaka Declaration to dwell on more market
The demand for enhancing the market share of least developed countries (LDCs) in global trade has figured prominently in the final draft of the Dhaka Declaration to be made on the concluding day of the
 
Quiet forex market under BB vigil
Strict market vigilance by the Bangladesh Bank (BB) kept dollar rates both in the inter-bank market and at client ends static on the first day of making exchange rate free of any band.
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Suu Kyi held after supporters clash with pro-junta men
Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been put under temporary arrest in the country's north after a violent clash between her supporters and a pro-junta group which left four dead, the junta
 
Heat wave toll soars to 10
No respite in sight
Death toll from the searing heat wave parching Bangladesh rose to 10 with the death of three more people in Nilphamari and Pirojpur districts on Friday and yesterday.
 
Protesters clash with cops before today's G-8 summit
French police fired teargas yesterday to disperse several hundred protesters in the first major disturbance ahead of a summit of the "Group of Eight" leading industrialised countries.
 
142 including 41 children killed in May
One hundred and forty-two people including 41 children were killed through the violation of human rights across the country last month.
 
National Policy Review Forum 2003 opens on June 3
The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), the Prothom Alo and The Daily Star will open the 'National Policy Review Forum 2003' at a city hotel on June 3 and discuss a raft on important national issues insubsequent
 
One killed, cop abducted in Rangamati
A young man was shot and four others including a police constable were abducted in conflicts between pro- and anti-peace pact outfits in remote villages in Rangamati district on Thursday and Friday, police
 
Babri Mosque demolition
Charge sheet against Advani, Joshi
The CBI yesterday filed supplementary chargesheet against Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani, his Cabinet colleague Murli Manohar Joshi, VHP leader Ashok Singhal and five others in the Babri Masjid demolition
 
Question throws students in soup
Examinees were perplexed by a question of the English first paper of the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examinations.
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Dhaka as usual...
 
3 brothers to die for murder
A court here yesterday sentenced three brothers to death in a murder case.
 
Girls raped in Chittagong, Rangamati
A 10-year old girl was gang-raped in Cement Crossing area under Potenga thana in the city on Friday night.
 
Rickshaw ban move protested
Seventeen social, political, cultural and student organisations yesterday vowed to resist any move to restrict plying of rickshaws without creating alternative job opportunity for rickshaw-pullers.
 

 
   
 
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