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Bangladesh-Malaysia joint venture company on cards
Hajj pilgrims to get various facilities
A Bangladesh-Malaysia joint venture company will be formed soon to provide various facilities, including financial assistance, to Bangladeshi Hajj pilgrims.
 
Call for Indo-Bangla efforts to fight fundamentalism
Political leaders and civil society members yesterday called for strengthening Bangladesh-India relations and launching joint efforts to resist fundamentalist forces.
 
14 opposition parties call for electoral reforms
Leaders of 14 opposition parties yesterday reiterated their earlier stance, saying that they would not take part in the next general elections unless the proposed reforms are brought to the caretakergovernment
 
Budget analysis unit to be established in JS
A budget analysis unit would be established in the Jatiya Sangsad (JS) to ensure effective role of the lawmakers in the process of passing the national budgets by providing them with documents necessary
 
Rab man jailed for bribery
A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced a Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) member to five years' rigorous imprisonment (RI) for attempting to take Tk 1 lakh in bribe from a businessman at Gopibagh in the capital
 
'Oust failed govt to get rid of sufferings’
Bangabandhu Adarsha Mullayon and Gobeshona Sangsad formed a human chain in front of Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi in the city yesterday protesting price-hike of essentials and series bomb attacks
 
Pichchi Kamal handed over to police
The businessmen of old Dhaka are panicked as the arrested top terror Hazi Kamal alias Pichchi Kamal was handed over to police on Sunday evening.
 
Establish rights of lepers
Speakers tell seminar
Speakers at a seminar yesterday called for establishing the rights of the people attacked by leprosy.
 
Hannan remanded again
Mufti Abdul Hannan, operations commander of the banned Harkatul Jihad's Bangladesh chapter, was placed on a fresh three-day remand yesterday on charges of the August 17 countrywide bomb blasts.
 
OC Rafiq sent to jail
A Dhaka court yesterday rejected the bail petition of suspended officer-in-charge (OC) of Motijheel Police Station, AKM Rafiqul Islam, also the prime accused in Kamrul Islam Momin murder case.
 
Govt urged not to raise airfare of Hajj passengers
Hajj Agencies Association of Bangladesh (HAAB) yesterday at a press conference in the city demanded of the government not to increase the plane fare for Hajj passengers, which has been fixed by the cabinet
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PM returns after a week
Prime Minister Khaleda Zia returned yesterday concluding her week-long pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia for performing umrah.
 
Body of Rezaul Karim arrives today
The body of Ambassador MM Rezaul Karim, who passed away in Cairo, will be flown to Dhaka today from Dubai by a flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines.
 
Buet convocation on Jan 3
The ninth convocation of Bangladesh University of Science and Technology (Buet) will be held on January 3, 2006.
 
Dollar Embezzlement
Former Airport OC sued
Salauddin Shoib Chowdhury, sacked managing director of Inqilab TV, yesterday filed a criminal case against Abdul Hanif, the then officer-in-charge (OC) of Airport Police Station, accusing him of embezzling
 
Brac, Proshika aid for Monga-hit people
Two leading NGOs have provided financial assistance to Monga-hit people in northwestern districts of the country.
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Broderick takes over as WFP representative
Douglus Broderick took over as the representative of World Food Programme (WFP) in Bangladesh on Sunday.
 
Azizur Rahman
Azizur Rahman, a reputed social worker of Sherpur and former official of the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) passed away due to old age complication yesterday at Dhaka Medical College Hospital
 
1,638 arrested, 14 firearms seized
Police arrested 1,638 people on various charges from different parts of the country in the last 24 hours ending at 6:00am yesterday.
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Appeal for help
Md Jahidul Islam, a visually impaired student of MA in Islamic studies at Tejgaon College, has sought financial assistance for his educational expenses.
 

 
   
 
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