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Bid to insert 113 pet projects in ADP
Saifur crosses out the unapproved schemes that lobbyists wanted
Finance Minister M Saifur Rahman has detected and cancelled 113 unapproved projects that some planning ministry officials implanted in the next Annual Development Programme (ADP) in a bid to trick the
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Rumsfeld to ask for troops to Iraq
US defence secretary arrives tomorrow
US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld yesterday said he would fly to Dhaka tomorrow on a brief 14-hour visit for talks with the Bangladesh leaders about 'their military's possible interest in peacekeeping
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City-centric growth deprived rural poor
CPD says in interim report
The benefits of the growing trend in economy the country has witnessed this fiscal year failed to reach the rural poor mainly due to city-centric development, the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) observed
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Saudi Ban on Islamic Militant
Al-Haramain continues operation in Bangladesh
The operation of Saudi charity Al-Haramain in Bangladesh remained uninterrupted until yesterday, while Saudi Arabia on Wednesday announced that it moved to dissolve the Islamic organisation suspectedof
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Provision for Removal of FBCCI Chief
Business leaders term move anti-trade body
Chamber presidents of the country yesterday castigated the government for a recent commerce ministry order to make necessary provision for removal of FBCCI president and vice presidents and vowed to thwart
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SP held for 'offering bribe' to Babar
A special superintendent of police (SP)) was arrested for what the police headquarters said was his offering bribe to State Minister for Home Lutfozzaman Babar.
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Depositors bear brunt of interest rate cut
Survey finds
The bank interest rate cut enforced last year has hardly benefited the people, as the banks reduced the interest at the cost of the depositors, a recent survey found.
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Industrial index fails reality
Is the Quantum Index of Production (QIP) truly reflecting the behaviour of the manufacturing sector? The question now rings around the corners as very conflicting figures regarding industrial loan disbursement,
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PM urges scientists to invent
Prime Minister Khaleda Zia yesterday urged the scientists to devote themselves to research and invention for the interest of the nation.She made the call while donating Tk 2.
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CIA chief resigns
CIA Director George Tenet, who weathered storms over intelligence lapses about suspected weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and the September 11 terrorist attacks, has resigned, US President Bush said
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Acting secy to PM forced into retirement
Prime Minister's Acting Secretary AHM Nurul Islam was forced into retirement yesterday reportedly on charges of violating service rule and acting against the government and the Bureau of Anti-Corruption
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Lara to step down if Bangladesh not beaten
Brian Lara has said the West Indies should look for someone as new captain if his side fail to beat Bangladesh in five full days of cricket in the second Test at the Sabina Park in Kingston that starts
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Fenchuganj Plant
PDB skips talks as bidder ups project cost by $2m
Instead of reducing project cost through negotiations, the Power Development Board (PDB) has virtually allowed a bidder to increase by $2 million the proposed cost of setting up the second unit of Fenchuganj
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By-Polls
BDB asks people to avenge govt insult
Speakers at a public meeting in Bikrampur yesterday asked the people to take revenge on the government by rejecting the BNP-nominated candidate in the upcoming by-polls.
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Ctg Militant Camp
3 cops sacked for 'failure to hold off press'
A three-member special intelligence team yesterday arrived here to carry out parallel probe into the militant training camp in Hathazari unearthed by police on Tuesday.
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Security upped to avoid clash between outlaw, JMJB
Claiming stepped up security measures, the divisional police authorities of Rajshahi yesterday brushed aside as baseless the villagers' apprehension of turf war between cadres of the militant Islamist
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AL hartal tomorrow
Main opposition Awami League and its labour front Jatiya Sramik League enforced a 24-hour hartal tomorrow, first of its kind since the BNP-led alliance government took over.
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Four including schoolboy killed in city
Trader shot at for refusing to pay toll
Four people including a schoolboy and two rickshaw-pullers were killed while extortionists shot and injured a shopkeeper in the capital yesterday.
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30 hurt in BDR, mob clash
Paramilitary Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) forces yesterday fired on a mob and the clash wounded 30 including seven BDR and three policemen, as the mob besieged Sultanganj BDR outpost after a wrangling over
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Pvt space travel starts
The world's first privately funded rocket plane plans to shoot beyond the uppermost layers of Earth's atmosphere later this month in a bid to demonstrate the viability of commercial space flight, organisers
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Brac gets Bill Gates award
Brac, a leading NGO of the country, has received the 2004 Gates Award for Global Health in recognition of its extraordinary achievement in improving health in the developing world, says a press release.
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Munshiganj-1 By-polls
Army, BDR to go on guard today
With the deployment of army and BDR personnel today for maintaining peaceful atmosphere, all preparations have been completed for holding the Munshiganj-1 by-elections slated for June 6.
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