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Harbin's Tongi Plant
Junk for money
Plant trips 75 times since operation in March '05
The four-party alliance government's symbol of achievement in power sector, the 80 megawatt Tongi power plant has tripped over 75 times since it started operation in March last year --mostly due to very
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Terror Threat
Airport security to be upgraded
12-member body to recommend measures
Waking up to the global terrorist threat, the government has decided to upgrade the security system at all the airports in Bangladesh and seal the loopholes in the existing system.
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Separation of Judiciary
Govt faces SC wrath again over delay
SC rules on contempt charge against 10 bureaucrats today
The Supreme Court (SC) today will make its ruling on the contempt of court petition filed against 10 top bureaucrats for not implementing the apex court's directives on separation of the judiciary from
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Electoral Reform Talks
Jamaat issue may limit it to AL-BNP
14-party forms reply drafting committee
In face of the Awami League-led 14-party opposition combine's staunch denial to Jamaat-e-Islami's participation, the proposed dialogue on caretaker government and electoral reforms may turn exclusivebetween
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Dry spell casts long shadow over crops
Experts stress increasing crop varieties to withstand sultry summer
A prolonged drought-like situation across the country that has already cast a spell over this year's boro farming worries the farmers who had to invest high due to input mismanagement.
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7-day agitation planned for power, fertiliser
Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh, Jatiya Oikya Mancha and Bangladesh Tariqat Federation jointly declared a weeklong agitation programme during April 7-14 demanding uninterrupted supply of power for irrigation
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Factory Fires
BGMEA launches awareness drive
The BGMEA launched an awareness-building campaign by conducting fire drills and inspecting fire fighting equipments in the wake of frequent fire incidents in factories.
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50 injured as Shibir clashes with JCD
At least 50 students were injured as the Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS) clashed with the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) at Jessore Govt MM College yesterday.
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OMS of sugar in Dhaka from tomorrow
As sugar price continues to rise hitting Tk 62 per kilogram, the government yesterday decided to sell a ton of sugar daily in each of the 90 wards in Dhaka city from tomorrow in a bid to stabilise the
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Rejoinder, our reply
The Power Development Board (PDB) has claimed The Daily Star report headlined "PDB to incur colossal loss on costly plants" published Thursday is "misleading.
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Charge sheet against Rahman being delayed
Charge sheet in one of the two cases filed in Sylhet against 11 people including outlawed JMB chief Abdur Rahman and his accomplices is being delayed to 'remove the flaws through further investigation'.
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JCD calls off strike at RU
Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) called off its indefinite strike at Rajshahi University yesterday after Rajshahi city mayor reportedly urged the ruling BNP's student wing to do so.
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Outlaw leader killed in Rab 'encounter'
A regional leader of outlawed Purbo Banglar Communist Party (Janajuddho) was killed in an 'encounter' between members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and his accomplices early yesterday at Bellabariavillage
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Faridpur road crash kills 8
Eight people were killed when a passenger bus skidded off the road and fell into a ditch near Faridpur town on Faridpur-Barisal highway yesterday.
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Meeting Venue
AL MP, 35 others hurt in clash with Chhatra Dal
At least 35 people including the local Awami League (AL) lawmaker were injured in clashes between the activists of the ruling BNP's student wing Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal and AL's student wing Bangladesh
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Thailand votes amid opposition boycott
Thailand's prime minister urged citizens to ignore an opposition boycott of snap parliamentary elections yesterday, saying the vote was crucial to ending the country's deepening political stalemate amid
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Two US pilots die as helicopter downed
4 GIs, 10 Iraqis killed in violence, 40 bodies found
The US military yesterday announced the deaths of six of its troops across Iraq, including two pilots of a helicopter that was shot down by insurgents the day before.
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28 killed in Chinese factory explosions
At least 28 workers were killed and 10 missing in China after separate blasts ripped through two plants dealing with dangerous explosives, state media reported yesterday.
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Iran to unleash terror strikes if attacked
US intelligence experts believe Iran would respond to US military strikes on its nuclear sites by deploying its intelligence operatives and Hezbollah teams to carry out terrorist attacks worldwide, The
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