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Anti-graft Commission
Donors want search body this month
ADB country director tells newsmen
Donors want the government to appoint a committee this month to select the members of an independent anti-corruption commission, as they identify corruption as a key impediment to the country's economic
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Internet Telephony Licence
BTRC may seek bids by next week
The telecoms regulator is likely to invite proposals from private operators by next week to award licence for the internet telephony six months after the cabinet approved its legalisation.
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Commentary
April's Fool
Jalil's deadline fiasco makes a mockery of his party's political programmes
Seldom has a party leader done so much damage to his party's credibility with so few actions and in so short a time.
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4 to die for killing Sultana Panni
A Dhaka tribunal yesterday sentenced four youths to death for killing Sultana Khan Panni, wife of former deputy speaker Humayun Khan Panni, on May 19 last year.
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Proshika's culture wing sealed
Graft case filed against Qazi Faruque, 11 others
Police yesterday sealed the people's culture wing of Proshika and seized documents in a raid on its headquarters in Mirpur to find proof of the non-governmental organisation's alleged antigovernment activities.
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BNP MPs oppose bureaucrats at local govt helm
Ruling BNP lawmakers at a parliamentary body meeting yesterday opposed the idea of appointing government officials to local government bodies once the tenure of the elected representatives ends.
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Labour welfare body in pipeline
PM says at May Day programme
Prime Minister Khaleda Zia said her government was planning to set up a 'labour welfare foundation' aimed at training and re-training of workers and rehabilitation of unemployed labourers.
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Municipal Polls
Rampant violations of election rules alleged
Fair Election Monitoring Alliance (FEMA) and Brotee, two non-government organisations (NGO) working with election monitoring, yesterday alleged that most of the candidates standing for upcoming municipality
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Outrage over Iraq photos growing
US army report says prisoners faced 'sadistic, blatant, wanton criminal abuses'
The US-led coalition is facing outrage amid mounting allegations of widespread abuse at its jails in Iraq and growing anger from the people it claims to have liberated.
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Eid-e-Miladunnabi today
The holy Eid-e-Miladunnabi, marking the birth of Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (SM), will be celebrated today across the country as elsewhere in the Muslim world with due religious fervour, festivity and solemnity.
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Kerosene price upped to diesel's
The government has raised the price of kerosene by Tk 3 to Tk 20 a litre from May 1 in a move to check adulteration of kerosene with diesel.
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Ctg Gunrunning
Key suspect held
Police arrested a key suspect in the largest ever gunrunning case on a road near KAFCO residential area in Chittagong on Saturday evening, police said.
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More deadlines to come: Hasina
Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said there was no reason for the government to relax with the expiry of her party's April-30 deadline to unseat the ruling coalition, as "more 30s
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9 GIs die in Iraq attacks
US hostage Hamill escapes
Nine US servicemen were killed in Iraq yesterday -- six of them in a mortar attack -- but U.S.
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Political violence, social unrest make journalism risky
Discussants say on eve of World Press Freedom Day
Different rights and media organisations yesterday held various programmes on the eve of World Press Freedom Day 2004 today and stressed the need for free flow of information, journalists' professionalism
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5 Israelis die in Gaza shooting
Palestinian militants yesterday attacked an Israeli vehicle near a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip, killing four children and their mother, the Israeli army said. Two attackers were killed.
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AL MP comes under attack, escapes unhurt
Main opposition Awami League (AL) lawmaker Abdul Hye yesterday escaped unhurt a series of bomb attack on a procession he was leading in the evening at Shailkopa.
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Pakistan foreign secretary due on May 5
Pakistan Foreign Secretary Reaz H Khokar comes to Dhaka on May 5 to hold talks with his Bangladesh counterpart Shamser Mobin Chowdhury on bilateral, regional and international issues.
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Govt won't step down before its tenure ends
Mannan tells Sramik Dal rally
BNP Secretary General Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan yesterday said the ruling party would go into the next election only after the present government completes its tenure.
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Contempt plea against media man rejected
The High Court yesterday summarily rejected plea of a city magistrate to draw contempt proceedings against a UNB reporter for writing that she (magistrate) stood up and saluted a minister as he entered
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Five killed in road accident
Five people were killed and 50 others were injured as a speeding bus careered off the road into a ditch in Bagutia in Kalihati upazila Saturday night.
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