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Poor Pay, Arrears
Garment workers' unrest flares up again
Factories ransacked, officials assaulted at Savar, Gazipur
Garment workers at Savar and Gazipur continued to ransack factories over arrears and low wages yesterday, threatening a repeat of widespread rioting which destroyed or damaged dozens of industries a week
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Key-posts Vacant for up to a Year
Petrobangla being crippled, gas sector to land in crisis
The guardian of the country's energy resources, Petrobangla, is systematically being crippled as it is now severely lacking manpower for most of its technical and supervisory posts including those atits
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To err is human, CEC now says
In the wake of the Supreme Court verdict on preparing a fresh voter list, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Justice MA Aziz yesterday said humans may make mistakes and that they are working in the interest
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Reaching Subsidies to Farmers
Fertiliser dealers shouldn't be politically appointed
To ensure that agricultural subsidies reach real farmers, competition should be introduced in marketing of subsidised agricultural inputs, and fertiliser wholesalers should not be appointed on political
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Loan Defaults
Governor worried over stay orders
Asks banks to take special steps; 20 defaulters hold 50pc of total bad loans
Bangladesh Bank Governor Dr Salehuddin Ahmed yesterday asked the banks to take special measures to recover bad loans as the defaulters filed 1,768 writ petitions in the High Court on such loans amounting
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Governance, graft dip on BNP-AL confrontation
Japan targets power, infrastructure in Country Assistance Programme
Japan has issued its new Country Assistance Programme (CAP) for Bangladesh, which prioritises assistance for poverty reduction, private sector growth, power and infrastructure and helping Bangladesh improve
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Outages
JS body blasts power ministry for graft
Lawmakers at a meeting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Undertakings yesterday blasted the power ministry for corruption and mismanagement that they held responsible for the ongoing power
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BNP MP's Attack
Kushtia daily still out of publication
Dainik Andolaner Bazar, local daily of Kushtia, is still unable to publish following Tuesday's attack on its press and continued threats from cadres of ruling BNP lawmaker Shahidul Islam.
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Primary teachers end hunger strike
Teachers of non-government primary schools yesterday ended their hunger strike unto death following the assurance from Prime Minister's Political Secretary Harris Chowdhury of realising their one-point
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Pvt security firms to be made accountable
Govt to issue order soon
The government will soon issue an SRO (Statutory Regulatory Order) to ensure accountability and responsibility of private security agencies in the wake of growing incidents of heists by on-duty security
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Bail rejected to BD Foods boss
A Dhaka court yesterday rejected the bail petition for BD Foods Chairman Badruddoza Chowdhury Momen, arrested on charge of smuggling heroin to the United Kingdom.
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Unhappy Saifur meets PM
Finance Minister M Saifur Rahman, who is not happy at the BNP high command's action on intra-party conflict in Sylhet, met party chief and Prime Minister Khaleda Zia at her office yesterday evening, sources
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June 11 Dhaka Siege
14-party to block roads at 10 points
The opposition combine yesterday finalised their preparations for the June 11 Dhaka siege programme which would be followed by even tougher agitation programmes.
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Six die in Noakhali bus crash
At least six people died and 40 others were injured in a bus collision on Laxmipur-Begumganj road yesterday. Three of the dead were identified as Abdul Haque, 22, Swapan, 40, and Dipankar, 23.
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170 peacekeepers leave for Ivory Coast
A 170-member team of Bangladesh Army, led by Lt Col AKM Nurul Islam, left Dhaka for Ivory Coast on Wednesday night to work under the United Nations (UN) peacekeeping mission there.
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FM to visit China June 6
Foreign Minister M Morshed Khan leaves for Beijing on June 6 on a three-day official visit at the invitation of his Chinese counterpart.
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Mirpur traders protest extortion
Traders of Hazrat Shah Ali Shopping Complex at Mirpur in the capital yesterday kept their shutters down and staged demonstrations to protest against the alleged extortion by the vice-president of themarket.
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Rejoinder, our reply
Cabinet Secretary ASM Abdul Halim yesterday protested a news item published in The Daily Star on May 27.
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World powers meet on Iran's nuke standoff
Tehran rejects US condition for talks
Foreign ministers of the world's major powers gathered yesterday bidding for a breakthrough in the crisis over Iran's nuclear programme after a dramatic US offer to join talks with Tehran.
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