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Alliance to face AL in streets
Blames opposition for 'foiling' Saarc Summit
The BNP-led ruling alliance yesterday blamed the Awami League for foiling the Saarc Summit and has decided to take to the streets to face the opposition agitation.
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Habiganj Grenade Attack
Police arrest 3, get important clue
Police have arrested three BNP activists and picked up 18 people for questioning from Habiganj and Sylhet in connection with the Habiganj carnage that left former finance minister SAMS Kibria and four
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Tough cops foil attempt for street protests
The police foiled every attempt to assemble on the streets and bring out processions in the capital yesterday during the opposition-sponsored dawn-to-dusk hartal sending most pickets off the roads.
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Bangla Bhai's men to keep bombing cinema
Arrested operative tells Bogra police; Natore militants tell of plan to attack NGOs
Operatives of the Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB) plan to continue bomb attacks on movie theatres all over the country, said police, adding that they suspect JMJB was involved in the Mymensing
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Narsingdi Heritage Site
Excavation suffers for lack of funds
Fund crisis and rules imposed by the archaeological department are hampering the third phase of excavation at Wari-Bateshwar in Narsingdi, the site of an ancient fort city dating back to 450 BC.
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Pak PM looks for new date
Says postponement to have negative impact
Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz yesterday described as unfortunate the postponement of the 13th summit of the seven-nation South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), the officialAssociated
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Interpol team goes back
After a four-day stay in Bangladesh, two members of an advanced team of Interpol yesterday returned to their headquarters in Lyon in France.
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Bhuiyan blames AL for summit cancellation
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Secretary General and LGRD Minister Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan accused the main opposition Awami League (AL) of 'hatching conspiracy' for postponement of the Saarc summit.
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Negotiate or risk 'alternate steps'
Nepal's new govt asks Maoists
Nepal's new government headed by King Gyanendra called on Maoist rebels to hold peace talks or risk "alternate steps," as the Himalayan nation entered its third day Thursday cut off from the outside world.
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Eleven killed in road crashes
Eleven people were killed and over 140 others injured in five road accidents in Moulvibazar, Habiganj, Dhaka, and Brahmanbaria yesterday.
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Fm Meets Envoys
Bid to keep up relations with Saarc nations
Foreign Minister M Morshed Khan yesterday met with envoys from the other six Saarc nations to prevent any possible deterioration in relations after India withdrew from the 13th Saarc summit, leading to
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Palestinian state 'within reach'
Bush observes, presses for democratic reforms in Saudi Arabia, Egypt
US President George W. Bush said Wednesday the goal of a Palestinian state living at peace with Israel was "within reach" and proposed a new 350 million dollar aid package to promote Palestinian reforms.
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Ministry asked to revise Jatrabari flyover proposal
Cabinet body feels excess benefits being offered to contractor
The approval to the Tk 670 crore Jatrabari flyover project was delayed again as the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs yesterday asked the local government ministry to make further revision of theproject
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Georgian PM found dead
Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania, who helped lead the revolution that toppled the corruption-tainted regime of Eduard Shevardnadze, was killed early Thursday by an apparent natural gas leak, theex-Soviet
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Saarc summit postponed on lame excuse
Says Saifur
Finance Minister M Saifur Rahman is unhappy with India's role in postponing the 13th Saarc Summit, but he says the government will continue to try to improve bilateral relations by overcoming the frustrations
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24 Iraqis, 2 GIs killed as violence flares up
At least 24 Iraqis and two US soldiers were killed within 24 hours in attacks north of Baghdad, shattering a brief post-election lull in violence, security and medical sources said yesterday.
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Saarc holidays cancelled
Educational institutions in the capital will remain open as usual on February 5-7 as the 13th Saarc Summit scheduled to be held in Dhaka has been postponed.
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Indian train collides with tractor: 42 die
More than 40 people were killed and eight injured when a train collided with a farm tractor pulling a trailer full of people at a level crossing in central India, police said Thursday.
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