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Anti-poverty plan sees lower export growth
Despite a 15 percent export growth achieved in the last fiscal year (FY), the draft Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) projects only an 8 percent growth for the current FY, apprehending adverse impact
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Gas crisis set to last year long
The present dip in supply of natural gas is set to dog the country throughout this year and turn into a full-blown national crisis later in the summer, fear experts.
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ACC move on 'missing' cars irks secretaries
A section of the secretaries asked by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to explain the reported irregular usage of 1,028 vehicles say it is wrong for the commission to make the sweeping implication
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Khaleda opens textbook distribution
Prime Minister Khaleda Zia while inaugurating nationwide new textbooks distribution among students yesterday urged teachers to work with more enthusiasm to ensure quality education.
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Killings in 'crossfire' breach constitution
Dr Kamal says lawlessness pervasive
Jatiya Oikya Mancha President Dr Kamal Hossain yesterday accused the government of flouting the constitution and the international human rights norms by allowing killings in 'crossfire'.
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Hc Stays Vacating Order
Injunction on RU mass appointment upheld
The High Court yesterday stayed the vacating order on a lower court injunction on the confirmation of last year's mass appointments at Rajshahi University (RU).
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Kids' fight for school seats begins
Anxious guardians crowded in front of eight government schools in the capital yesterday as their wards took admission tests at primary and secondary levels for the academic year 2005.
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Car bomb kills 21 Iraqi guards
New al-Qaeda video shows shooting of 5 cops
A suicide car bomb hit a bus carrying Iraqi National Guards yesterday, killing 22 people in the deadliest attack of its kind in nearly four months on Iraqis cooperating with US forces to secure a January
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Asia Tsunami
Aid operation gears up
An unprecedented global aid operation gathered steam yesterday to save survivors of Asia's tsunamis as signs crept up of disease in the overflowing morgues after the disaster that claimed more than 127,000
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SQ Chy invites Hasina to son's wedding
Adviser to the Prime Minister on Parliamentary Affairs Salahuddin Qader Chowdhury yesterday met the Leader of the Opposition Sheikh Hasina to invite the latter to his son's wedding.
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Sweepers halt Dhaka-Ctg rail link for 3hrs
Train service on Dhaka-Chittagong route remained suspended for over three hours yesterday as sweepers at Comilla Railway Station badly protested the arrest of a colleague.
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Benapole land port strike on
Hundreds of trucks stranded
Export and import at Benapole land port remained suspended for the second day yesterday while hundreds of trucks with goods including perishable ones are stranded at Benapole on Bangladesh side and Petrapole
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70 RMG workers fall sick from gas leak
At least 70 workers have fallen sick following a toxic gas leakage yesterday at a garment factory in the Aturardepot area of the port city, police and factory sources said.
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Cold wave next week
At least two cold waves are likely to blow over the country beginning at the second week of this month, according to a long-range January forecast by the met office.
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Deaths Abroad
Workers' families get compensation
The government yesterday distributed a total of Tk 2.05 crore in compensation to the relatives of 15 expatriate Bangladeshis who died while working abroad, most of them in Middle Eastern countries.
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Headmistress Murder
Guard confesses to helping killers
A security guard yesterday told a court that he helped three hitmen slaughter Siddheshwari Girls High School headmistress Sabera Begum Baby and her daughter.
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Outlaw dies in 'crossfire'at Naogaon
A leader of an outlawed party was killed allegedly in crossfire between his accomplices and police in Bhatkoi village in Raninagar upazila yesterday.
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HC stays hearing on rule on editors for 2 weeks
The High Court yesterday adjourned for two weeks the hearing on the rule on the editors, publishers and reporters of four national dailies, issued last month for publishing reports and a feature on ajudge's
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Islamist militant chief remanded
Sayed Kawsar Hussain Siddiki Raja, the self-styled chief of Islamist militant group Shahadat-e Al Hiqma, was remanded for the third time yesterday.
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