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'Resist black money holders to bring change to politics'
Eminent lawyer Dr Kamal Hossain yesterday called for resisting untaxed and black money holders from entering parliament to ensure a meaningful change in politics.

Acute water crisis in SW region
Underground water level receding fast
The southwestern parts of the country are facing acute drinking water crisis as the underground water level is receding at an alarming rate.

Consultancy firm swindles Tk 3 cr out of students
A student consultancy firm has disappeared reportedly with Tk 3 crore it amassed from a large number of students and also others promising to send them abroad.

Ctg Int'l Medical Exposition begins in Ctg
The Chittagong International Medical Exposition (CHIMEXPO)-2005, first of its kind in the port city, began here yesterday.

Charity painting exhibition begins today
Troik, a group exhibition of three young painters, begins in the city today to help the underprivileged children of the country.

Balu, Belal Murder Cases
IGP in Khulna to oversee progress of investigation
Inspector General of Police (IGP) Ashraful Huda arrived in Khulna yesterday evening from Dhaka to monitor the progress of the investigations of the murder cases of journalists Humayun Kabir Balu and Belaluddin

Thailand keen to help train policemen
Thailand is keen to extend its facilities to Bangladesh for training of police and other law enforcement agency personnel on anti-crime and anti-drug campaigns.

Demonstration against PSCs on April 18
Nineteen left-leaning political and socio-cultural organisations will stage a demonstration in front of the energy ministry on April 18 demanding cancellation of all production sharing contracts (PSCs)

ICM demands reform in election system
Leaders of Islami Constitution Movement (ICM) yesterday demanded reform of the election system through a dialogue with all political parties.

FM to attend Asian Cooperation Dialogue
Foreign Minister M Morshed Khan is expected to leave for Pakistan tomorrow to attend the two-day Asian Cooperation Dialogue (ACD), a forum of 26 countries from East and West Asia.

Japanese grant for construction of community centres in CHT
The Japanese embassy and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) signed a grant contract of Tk 52 lakh for construction of multi-purpose community centres in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT),says

Children's recitation festival held
The third 'Shishu Abritti Utsab-05' was held at Bakultala of the Fine Art Institute of Dhaka University yesterday.

Road accident kills one in Sylhet
Traffic on Sylhet-Companyganj road at Khagail was disrupted for about four hours on Thursday evening following a road accident that left one man killed and two others injured.

Obituary
Sayeeda Begum, wife of Din Mohammad, joint director general of Bangladesh Railway, passed away at Railway Hospital yesterday at the age of 46.
She had been suffering from cancer, family sources said.