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HC judge withdrawn
His bench colleague refuses to sit with him
The chief justice yesterday withdrew Additional Judge of the High Court Faisal Mahmud Faizee in the face of allegations of his tampering with the LLB examination results and lawyers' threat to boycott
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Kerry leads over Bush into final day
Return of Florida fiascoes in several states feared
Scarred by the September 11 attacks and polarised by a bitter campaign, Americans will vote tomorrow whether to keep President George W.
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Monga leads to mass exodus
An alarming rise in unemployment accompanied by monga in Rangpur and Kurigram has triggered a massive exodus of jobless northerners to Dhaka and other parts of the country.
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Bill placed in House to give immunity to WB
AL terms it unconstitutional, against fundamental rights of people; five other bills also piloted
A bill proposing a blanket immunity to the World Bank (WB) in its operations in Bangladesh was placed in parliament yesterday amid widespread criticism by the opposition political parties, civil society,
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No word from Faruk's kidnappers yet
Dhaka tries to pick contacts through influential people in Iraq
The Bangladesh Embassy in Kuwait is trying to communicate with abductors of truck driver Abul Kashem Faruk through influential contacts in Iraq but it got no response as yet.
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Trouble brews at DMCH over bribing for jobs
A large number of job seekers who allegedly bribed the ministry officials and union leaders for getting jobs in the Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) have planned agitation as they came to know that
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AL walks out of JS
Treasury bench rejects demand for talks on grenade attack
The Awami League (AL) lawmakers yesterday staged a brief walkout of the Jatiya Sangsad as the speaker allowed the treasury bench to counter their demands on holding a fresh discussion in the House onthe
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2 cases filed against 400 students
Protests on; probe on RU violence starts
Authorities yesterday filed two separate cases against more than 400 named and unnamed general students for Saturday's violence on the Rajshahi University (RU) campus as per decision of the syndicate
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City land records go digital today
Revenue to rise by Tk 20 crore a year; bad time ahead for realty crooks
Woe betide those who try to grab public or other men's land in the capital, for the city starts getting in a computerised land management system (CLMS) from today.
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Antigraft body to get down to work this month
Saifur tells visiting ADB vice-president
The independent Anti-Corruption Commission will get down to work by this month after the government appoints chairman and members of the high-profile antigraft body after Eid, the finance minister said
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Arafat illness not life-threatening
No sign of leukemia in tests
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who is undergoing tests at a military hospital outside Paris, does not have a life-threatening illness and his condition is "curable", one of his senior advisors said
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Top 'criminal' drafted in Rajshahi BNP
City leadership furious
Frustration is brewing in Rajshahi city BNP leadership following inclusion of an alleged top listed criminal in the party on Wednesday.
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Jhalakathi boy breaks his captivity in city
A schoolboy from Jhalakathi broke his captivity at Khilgaon in the capital yesterday three months into his abduction, leading to the arrest of the alleged abductor, a former ward commissioner of Dhaka
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Three children killed over land dispute
Unknown assailants broke into the house of a man and killed his two daughters and one son and critically hurt another son in Bhimshi village in Srimangal Saturday midnight.
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Pak PM starts tour of 3 Saarc states today
Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz begins a four-day trip to Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh today as part of a tour of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) nations, the foreign ministry
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Recruitment
BNP men ransack civil surgeon's house
Unruly BNP men ransacked the house of the civil surgeon last night as he did not comply with their request to appoint their candidates.
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Ershad Shikdar's accomplices acquitted
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court Saturday acquitted Jamai Faruk and Liaquat Lashkar, two accomplices of notorious criminal Ershad Shikdar, of murdering Joynal Sheikh.
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Three cops suspended for extortion
Three policemen were suspended on charge of extortion yesterday.
They are constables Billal Hossain, Nizamuddin and Billal Mia of Jibanganj Bazar police outpost in Nabinagar.
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