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Opposition Long March
Cops go for blanket arrest as march to Dhaka starts
As activists and supporters of the 14-party opposition combine began marching in thousands towards Dhaka yesterday, the police went on blanket arrests of grassroots opposition leaders and workers as a
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Saudi bus crash kills 13 Bangladeshis
8 out of 14 injured in critical state
Thirteen Bangladeshi workers died and 14 others were injured, eight of them critically, in a bus accident near Riyadh in Saudi Arabia yesterday morning.
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Stranded Pakistanis clash with cops
100 including 25 policemen hurt
Around 100 people, including 25 policemen, were wounded during a violent clash between stranded Pakistanis and police at the capital's Mohammadpur yesterday.
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Baghabari-mohanganj
BIWTA fails to finish dredging in a month
The Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) failed to complete dredging of the 20km long channel from Baghabari river port to Mohanganj in a month, which was scheduled to be completed within
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Mizan Chy passes away
Veteran politician, former prime minister and a leading organiser of the Liberation War Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury breathed his last at city's Birdem Hospital in the early hours yesterday.
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BNP trump card to be shown in next polls
PM warns opposition at Ctg rally
Prime Minister Khaleda Zia yesterday fired a salvo at the opposition for issuing so-called ultimatum and trump card to oust her elected government and declared that people would rather show them a BNP
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Tk 24,000cr audit objections remain unsettled
Half of them against communications ministry, says first PAC report
Audit objections involving a staggering amount of Tk 24,000 crore remain unsettled and almost half of them came against the communications ministry, says the first report of the Public Accounts Committee
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Fresh Voter List
EC files appeal, hearing Feb 6
The full bench of Supreme Court (SC) will hear on February 6 the Election Commission's (EC) petition for leave to appeal and a stay order against the recent High Court (HC) directives on the preparation
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Incoming vessels stuck abroad as Ctg port agents stop booking
Demand reduction of gantry crane charges
The shipping agents at Chittagong Port yesterday stopped booking vessels from different international ports and threatened to suspend the operation of feeder vessels at the port if the authorities concerned
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Sacking of SP Masud Miah seen as an eyewash
The dismissal of former Rajshahi superintendent of police (SP) Masud Miah has turned into talk of the town since it is widely believed here he was made a scapegoat for helping militant kingpins AbdurRahman
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Kansat Killings
UNO withdrawn for failure to tackle situation
Shibganj Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Mohammad Rafiqul Islam has been withdrawn for mishandling the situation that led to the killing of nine people in police firing at Kansat.
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4 become national professors
The government yesterday appointed four educationists as national professors for five years as per Bangladesh National Professor Resolution (appointment, conditions and facilities) 1981.
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IAEA set to take Iran to Security Council
Russia, China promise to back resolution
The UN nuclear watchdog met in emergency session yesterday, with Iranian allies Russia and China promising to back a resolution to take Tehran to the Security Council over its disputed nuclear activities.
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US forces battle Sadr militia in Baghdad
Four Iraqis, 5 GIs killed in attacks
Four Iraqis were killed in a heavy gunfight and attacks that broke out before dawn yesterday reportedly between the Mehdi Army militia of radical Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr and US forces in Baghdad's Sadr
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US intel chief doubts Iran has nukes
US National Intelligence Director John Negroponte told Congress on Thursday that Iran probably does not yet have nuclear weapons, nor has it obtained the material central to producing them.
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