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Mass awareness a must to protect human rights
Moudud tells discussion
Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Moudud Ahmed yesterday said present government has implemented various reform programmes to protect human rights.
 
Withdraw hartal, come to negotiation table
Bhuiyan urges Awami League
BNP General Secretary and LGRD Minister Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan yesterday urged the opposition Awami League to withdraw their tomorrow's dawn-to-dusk countrywide hartal and come to the negotiation table.
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Prime Minister Gold Medal 2006 Distributed
Keep education above politics: PM
Prime Minister Khaleda Zia yesterday called upon all irrespective of party and opinion to work with a synergy, keeping education above politics, for spread of standard education to build a developed knowledge
 
Major political parties not sincere about reforms
Says CPB
Leaders of Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) yesterday at a rally said though the major political parties are talking about election reforms, they are not sincere about the reforms, as they do not want
 
JS body suggests reorganising BSTI
The Jatiya Sangsad standing committee on the Ministry of Industries yesterday recommended extension of the Bangladesh Standard Testing Institution (BSTI) activities to the district level.
 
JP (Manju) condemns police action
The Jatiya Party (Manju) yesterday strongly condemned the killing of an opposition activist in police firing, injuring of over 100 others and mass arrests during the 14-party's countrywide blockade programme.
 
Double Murder
Husband gets death, wife life term in Rajshahi
A man was sentenced to death and his wife to life term by a court in a double murder case here in Rajshahi yesterday.
 
Naval chief off to Sri Lanka, Malaysia
Chief of the Naval Staff Rear Admiral M Hasan Ali Khan left Dhaka on Saturday night for Sri Lanka and Malaysia for a good will visit.
 
Filing of false case protested
Leaders of Demra-Shyampur Pani-Bidyut Shangram Committee, who launched movement for better utility services in Shyampur-Demra area, condemned filing of false case by the ruling party cadres against their
 
Hon Consul of Indonesia in Ctg meets FM
Newly appointed Honourary Consul of Indonesia in Chittagong AK Shamsuddin Khan called on Foreign Minister M Morshed Khan at his office yesterday.
 
50 shanties gutted in city
At least 50 shanties were gutted in a devastating fire at Baishtek Slum at Kafrul in the city last night, leaving several hundred dwellers homeless.
 
DAB leaders meet PM
A delegation of the new committee of the Doctors Association of Bangladesh made a courtesy call on Prime Minister Khaleda Zia at her office yesterday.
 
1400 MW power supply today
A total of 1,400 MW electricity will be supplied in greater Dhaka today, a press release of the Power Grid Company of Bangladesh Ltd says.
 
Govt aware of journos’ safety, security
Minister tells JS
Information Minister M Shamsul Islam yesterday told the Jatiya Sangsad that the government is well-aware and careful about the safety and security of the journalist community.
 
Apollo Hospitals signs agreement with Hotel Agrabad
Apollo Hospitals, Dhaka signed a corporate agreement with Hotel Agrabad, Chittagong recently to provide medical services and special corporate benefits to the staffs of Hotel Agrabad, says a press release.
 
US embassy offices closed tomorrow
US Embassy offices will remain closed tomorrow on the occasion of the American Independence Day.
 
Special envelope
Bangladesh Postal Department will issue a special envelope worth Tk 5 to mark the 'Inaugural of Automatic Letter Sorting Machine-2006', says a press release. A special seal will be used on the occasion.
 
Prof Nurul Islam to be buried today
National Professor AKM Nurul Islam, also a faculty member at the Department of Botany of Dhaka University (DU), will be laid to rest at 1:30pm today at Uttara sector 4 graveyard, a DU press release says.
 

 
   
 
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