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Grenades, AK-47 found at city slum
Intelligence agencies look for possible link to Aug 21 attack
The Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) yesterday seized an AK-47 rifle, a 9mm revolver, two grenades and huge ammunition from a slum at Mohakhali in Dhaka, prompting the intelligence agencies to look for apossible
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Kidney Dialysis Solution
Tariff row may spell patients' plight
Thousands of patients in Bangladesh surviving on kidney dialysis are left to suffer for lack of a fresh supply of lifesaving fluid.
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3 years of Coalition rule
Governance pledges remain elusive
The ruling BNP-led alliance completes three years in office on October 10, yet the coalition government has fulfilled none of its major election pledges to improve governance, ensure accountability and
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Saarc Trade Talks Begin
Experts debate on negative lists
Seven South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) countries began crucial trade talks in Dhaka yesterday on a free trade deal in the region with negative list of products and rules of origin
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Grenade Attack
AL asks govt to name the 'country'
The main opposition Awami League (AL) yesterday asked the government to 'find out and make it public' which country or external force is involved in the August 21 grenade attacks on Leader of the Opposition
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The Daily Star roundtable on children in trouble with law
More child-friendly legal system demanded
Senior ministers, legal practitioners, child-rights activists and NGO leaders at a roundtable yesterday called for a more child-friendly legal system to stop abuse of children in confinement for falling
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PM calls for more efforts for children's welfare
Prime Minister Khaleda Zia yesterday called for more active participation of all concerned, including non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and the civil society, in the government efforts towards development
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Mymensingh mob lynches 3 robbers
Lynch mob in Bhaluka of Mymensingh yesterday beat at least three robbers to death and injured another three, two of them critically, when the gang was fleeing the scene after robbery.
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Donors support huge farm subsidy
Donors supported local agriculture experts' recommendation for substantial farm subsidy as part of a 62-point prescription for modernising Bangladesh's agriculture through its mechanisation and commercialisation.
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Six student bodies react
Leaders of six opposition-backed student organisations yesterday reacted sharply to the ruling BNP Secretary General Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan's 3-day ultimatum to the student bodies who called students' strike
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City JCD leader dies in Rab custody
Elite force claims Anisur was a criminal, local MP says innocent
A Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) leader of Mohammadpur died last night at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) allegedly from beating the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) inflicted on him after his arrest
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Media policy on cards
Says acting information secretary
The government is going to formulate a media policy aiming to remove existing anomalies in the media, a top government official said yesterday.
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Series of car bomb blasts kill 26 in Iraq
US airstrikes kill 11 in Fallujah, senior official slain in capital
A series of car bomb blasts tore through Baghdad and the northern Iraq city of Mosul yesterday, killing at least 26 people and wounding more than 100.
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Americans win Nobel for medicine
Americans Richard Axel and Linda B. Buck have won the 2004 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for their work in studying the biology of the sense of smell.
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UK expects proper probe
Visiting UK Undersecretary Sir Michael Jay yesterday said his country expects Bangladesh government to investigate the August 21 grenade attack properly and bring the culprits to justice.
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UP chairman found dead after Rab raid on his house
A union parishad (UP) chairman of Bagerhat Sadar upazila was found dead yesterday two and a half hours after Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) made a futile attempt to arrest him in a pre-dawn raid on hishouse.
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Tornado kills 2 in Satkhira
A tornado lashed several villages in Assassuni, Kaliganj and Shyamnagar upazilas of the district on Sunday evening leaving two people killed and eight injured.
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Skop calls strike for tomorrow
The leaders of Sramik Karmachari Oikya Parishad (Skop) yesterday vowed to make tomorrow's 24-hour strike a success to press the government to implement an agreement signed between the two sides.
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22 die, 42 missing as immigrant boat sinks
Twenty-two would-be immigrants drowned and 42 were missing after a boat that was to have carried them across the Mediterranean broke up and sank off the Tunisian coast at the weekend.
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