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Hasina vows to sacrifice her life for people
Leader of the Opposition Sheikh Hasina yesterday vowed to sacrifice her life for the cause of the countrymen and urged people from a grand rally in Dhaka to join the ongoing movement to overthrow theBNP-Jamaat
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Hartal called for Oct 10
The mainstream opposition parties yesterday announced a fresh spell of street agitation, besides a countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal on the third anniversary of the ruling coalition in office, October 10,
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40 lakh affected by hepatitis C
Some 40 lakh people or 3 percent of the total population of Bangladesh are suffering from the hepatitis C virus (HCV), speakers at a seminar in Dhaka said yesterday quoting a preliminary report by the
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Judicial Probe Report
Foreign country not named for diplomatic reasons
Commission not fit to identify local abettors
The judicial inquiry commission in its report has obliquely referred several times to a country which it blamed for the August 21 grenade attack on an Awami League rally, but it did not name the country
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Phenomenal security
Paltan Maidan and the surrounding areas turned into a human sea yesterday afternoon as tens of thousands of people thronged there at the grand rally of main opposition Awami League held amidst an unprecedented
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Bogra local daily editor beheaded
Assailants killed Dipankar Chakrabarty, a senior journalist and vice-president of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ), at Sanyalpara in Sherpur in the early hours yesterday.
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Antidumping Measures
Dhaka loses $50m in 14 years
Antidumping measures by some countries handed Bangladesh international business losses to the tune of $50 million (Tk 300 crore) from September 1992 to June this year.
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UK under-secretary due today
Sir Michael Jay, British permanent under-secretary and head of the diplomatic service at the foreign office, arrives today on a two-day official visit.
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Family flees Home for fatwa
A family in a village under sader upazila of Rangpur district has fled their home after local religious extremists attacked and threatened to kill them for non-compliance with a fatwa.
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Modern ships to replace old ones
PM tells navy men, commissions 7 ships, crafts
Prime Minister Khaleda Zia yesterday said the government is actively considering procuring modern ships to replace the old fleets of Bangladesh Navy to enhance the naval power.
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Rab on alert in Raozan fearing poll violence
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) is likely to gear up surveillance and patrol in the crime-prone Raozan upazila amid fresh fear of violence over the upcoming October 6 municipal polls.
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19 municipalities go to polls October 6, 7
Elections of 19 municipalities of the country will be held on October 6 and 7.Polls in eight municipalities will be held on the first day and the rest on the second, said Election Commission sources.
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Korean shot, mugged
Muggers shot a South Korean national and his Bangladeshi friend on Mintoo Road after the latter were returning home from a meeting with the state minister for home affairs Saturday.
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Low over Bay moves n'west
The depression over southwest Bay and its adjoining areas has moved northwestward into west-central and the adjoining southwest Bay.
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Blast spree goes on in Assam
4 more killed, 40 injured
A fresh wave of bombs ripped through streets and marketplaces in India's northeastern state of Assam yesterday, killing four people and wounding 40 in escalating violence blamed on tribal separatists.
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Modhumoti Town
Court stops earth-filling for 4 weeks
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday stayed for four weeks operations of the September 1 High Court vacation of an August 15 injunction on earth-filling of sub-flood flow zone at Amin
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Grenade attack suspect remanded
A court yesterday remanded Abdur Rahim, suspected of his involvement with the August 21 carnage on an Awami League (AL) rally, for three days more.
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