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Tax Evasion Detection
NBR digs into luxury car purchase
To detect income tax evasions, the National Board of Revenue (NBR) has resorted to gathering the names and addresses of luxury car buyers and checking back with their tax returns.
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Hundreds stage unique protest
Banner with over 100,000 signatures to denounce Kibria killing
Hundreds of people yesterday lined up in front of the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban holding a giant banner inscribed with more than 100,000 signatures to protest the killing of former minister Shah AMS Kibria
 
A thriving market in dead fowl
The buying and selling of dead chickens is a daily and longstanding practice, sources say, adding to concerns that a thriving market in dead fowl is supplying the city's restaurants.
 
Tri-nation Pipeline
Myanmar for Dhaka meet April 20-21
Myanmar has proposed Bangladesh to hold meeting of the technical committee on the much-talked-about tri-nation gas pipeline on April 20-21 in Dhaka for signing the deal.
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Hartal ends with stray violence
The dawn-to-dusk hartal across the country and an eight-hour shutdown in the capital enforced by the main opposition Awami League (AL) and its allies yesterday passed off by and large peacefully barring
 
Two bombs thrown inside Dhaka jail
Two homemade bombs thrown from outside by unknown criminals blasted inside the Dhaka Central Jail yesterday.
 
Police idle to follow militant chief's clues
Although Shahadat-e Al Hiqma chief Sayed Kawsar Hussain Siddiki Raja revealed important information during interrogations by the Joint Interrogation Cell in Dhaka, police here have not taken a singlemove
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BTTB Cellphone Launching
Mobile crazy crowd damages sales centre
12 injured, subscription forms 'inadequate'
Violence marred the commercial launch of the state-owned Teletalk mobile phone yesterday, as aspiring subscribers damaged Ramna one-stop sales and service centre and the BASIC Bank counter, leaving at
 
Buet violates law to build structure
The Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), one of the region's most prestigious technical universities, is building various structures within its campus defying the Town Improvement
 
Giant billboards for CCC polls campaign
Bid to keep city clean
Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) has taken a unique initiative to set up giant billboards in all its wards to stick up posters in the campaign for the May 9 polls by the mayoral and commissioner candidates.
 
Constable Assault
Cops raid MP's flat to look for his son
Police raided the house of BNP lawmaker from Jessore-1 constituency Ali Kadar at NAM flat on Manik Mia Avenue Wednesday night to arrest his son on charges of beating up a traffic constable, but did not
 
Lame duck land commission
CHT land disputes remain unresolved, JS body observes
A parliamentary body yesterday lashed out at the Land Commission, formed to settle land-related disputes in the three hill districts, for failing to get down to business in the last three years.
 
Baby kidnapped for Tk 10 lakh ransom
Two held
After abducting a two-year-old boy Wednesday night from a house on the city's Nazimuddin Road, kidnappers demanded a ransom of Tk 10 lakh for his release yesterday.
 
JS body vexed at not getting foreign trip
A parliamentary body yesterday expressed frustration that it could not make any foreign trip in the last two years, and decided to visit different organisations soon at home and abroad to 'gather knowledge',
 
Court orders army to try captain in murder case
A Khulna court ordered the Bangladesh Army on March 24 to try Captain Naeem in a Court Martial for his alleged involvement last year in the murder of Khulna City Corporation (KCC) contractor Azim Sarder.
 
Two Indian ministers die in chopper crash
A pilot and two provincial ministers, one a billionaire industrialist, were killed yesterday when their helicopter crashed in a village in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, police said.
 
Hartal
Owners' vow to run buses turns false
Only a few long distance buses left the three terminals in the capital during hartal hours yesterday, charging much higher than normal fare, although the transport leaders announced recently that allbuses
 
China sees Jiabao's visit crucial for cooperation
China attaches great importance to the visit of Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao to Bangladesh on April 7 in expanding the relations of cooperation between the two countries.
 
Ex-home secy Omar Farooq made BTRC boss
Former Home Secretary Muham-mad Omar Farooq yesterday took over as chairman of the Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (BTRC).
 
High tension at Jessore college over Galib leaflet
Tension runs high on Jessore MM College campus as leaflets demanding release of Asadullah Al Galib, arrested in connection with Islamist militancy, have been found in a teacher's room.
 
117 killed by law enforcement agencies in 3 months
A total of 117 people were killed at the hands of law enforcement agencies in the last three months, Ain o Shalish Kendra (ASK) said at a press release yesterday.
 
Political Killings
Moudud rejects US report on failure to try killers
Law Minister Moudud Ahmed yesterday said trial of the former finance minister SAMS Kibria murder case will start soon and the probe into the August 21 carnage is on.
 

 
   
 
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