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No specific charge brought against Bhaluka militants
Seven out of 27 JMB men remanded
Police yesterday produced 27 militants, including the 25 arrested during Wednesday's raid near a Bhaluka madrasa by Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and two others nabbed later, before a Mymensingh courtunder
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OIC Meet on Lebanon
PM calls for ceasefire
Terms Israel's actions brutal, violation of human rights
Prime Minister Khaleda Zia yesterday called for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in Lebanon with total cessation of violence.
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US wants all to talk polls discords over
Boucher offers help to break down militant network
US Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher yesterday said major political parties should sit together to talk all the electoral discords over so that the next polls could be held in a free and fair
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GDP growth slows down in Q4
MCCI says concerns high about politics, weakening governance
A Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI) review says the country's economic performance in the 4th quarter (April-June of FY06) indicates that growth in GDP was marginally slower than that
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Voter List Update
Saifur now to allocate required fund
Finance Minister M Saifur Rahman, who once refused to allocate fresh fund for updating the voter list, yesterday surprisingly came up with an assurance of providing the Election Commission (EC) with as
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Meeting With Hasina
Boucher says US wants fair polls
Visiting US Assistant Secretary of State Richard A Boucher yesterday said his country is keen to extend all sorts of cooperation in the conduct of a free, fair and credible election in Bangladesh early
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EC reforms a must for acceptable polls
Nagorik Committee consultation session told
Democracy within the political parties, transparency in their financing and accountability at all stages of their activities need to be ensured to establish a participatory democracy in the country, said
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Saifur's Washington Visit
Release of WB, IMF funds main agenda
Finance and Planning Minister M Saifur Rahman leaves tomorrow for Washington to lobby the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for releasing $280 million loans as budget support within
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Schoolteachers begin hunger strike
Registered non-government primary schoolteachers yesterday began hunger strike until death at Muktangon in the city keeping their educational institutions closed.
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Many JP MPs to quit if Ershad joins 4-party
Says GM Quader
Many of the Jatiya Party (JP) legislators, fearing the four-party alliance's defeat in the upcoming general election, may change their platform to contest the polls if JP Chairman Ershad joined the alliance.
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Tk 5.5cr smuggled cigarette seized from container
After a tip-off by a clearing agent, customs officials yesterday confiscated a huge amount of foreign cigarettes inside a 40-foot container, which was officially declared to contain electric-touch-lamps,
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Barisal judges killed as plotted by top brass
Confesses JMB bomber
A Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) assailant confessed that he bombed two Jahalakathi judges to death in an outrageous attack laid out by his leaders Abdur Rahman, Siddqul Islam (Bangla Bhai), Ataur
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Move to catch GSP document forgers
The government has initiated a move to identify people involved in forgery of GSP (generalised system of preference) certificates after several European buyers of readymade garments complained about it.
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4th ODI today
Bangladesh's hope to win their first series abroad depends on how the cricketers react after a dreadful finish in the third match on Wednesday when the tourists face Zimbabwe in the fourth one-day international
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UN powers close to ME truce deal
10,000 Israeli ground troops fighting in Lebanon villages
Israel launched fresh air strikes on Beirut yesterday after a lull of several days, while UN powers inched toward agreement on a Security Council resolution to end the three-week-old conflict.
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Shibir men beat up RU exam controller
Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS) thugs physically assaulted the Rajshahi University (RU) controller of examinations and his associates yesterday as he refused to hand over a certificate to the ICS men in absence
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Criminal killed in Rab 'crossfire'
An alleged criminal was killed during a 'shootout' between Rapid Action Battalion and a gang of criminals at Devipur Kazipara in Joypurhat district early yesterday.
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SC Bar leaders boycott HC judge's bench
Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) leaders and anti-government lawyers yesterday boycotted a High Court (HC) division bench of Justice Joynul Abedin in protest at issuing the contempt rule on 11 anti-government
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BSF kills 1
Indian Border Security Force (BSF) gunned down a Bangladeshi youth in Baliadangi upazila of Thakurgaon district yesterday morning.
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Lanka offers talks as battle peaks
21 more killed in violence
Sri Lanka yesterday offered to talk to Tamil Tigers about their bitter water dispute as fighting that has already claimed some 156 lives threatened to spiral into all-out war.
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Correction
In a report headlined 'Dhaka to lead LDCs in WTO again' published in The Daily Star on August 2, Gambia was inadvertently mentioned as the previous coordinator of LDCs. In fact Zambia was the coordinator.
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