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Venue complexity takes reform talks back
The formal dialogue between the ruling BNP and opposition Awami League (AL) over electoral reforms will not start today as complexities arose at the last moment yesterday over settling a venue for the
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BNP readies response to AL demands
The ruling BNP has identified 42 points from the main opposition Awami League's (AL) proposal for the reforms in the caretaker government system and the Election Commission while their leaders are preparing
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AL to place 31-point reform proposals
Awami League (AL) General Secretary Abdul Jalil will place 31-point electoral reform proposals at the beginning of the much-awaited dialogue with the ruling BNP Secretary General Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan,
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Cops maul gold medallist shooter Asif
Parking refusal to DIG's wife ignites police anger; Asif along with four arrested, 25 hurt in beating blitz
Police yesterday severely beat up three shooters including Commonwealth Games Gold Medallist Asif Hossain Khan storming into the National Shooting Federation Complex in Gulshan following a trivial argument
 
PRGF Loan Conditions
Automatic fuel pricing formula on cards
An automatic fuel pricing formula will be introduced by the end of the current fiscal.
 
Power shortage further dips
225MW Meghnaghat-1 shut down
A 225 MW unit of Meghnaghat power plant was shut down yesterday, bringing down the power generation output to about 3,000 MW during the peak hours.
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Unruly workers ransack garment factory, vehicles
Unruly garment factory workers yesterday ransacked a factory and over a dozen vehicles at Mirpur in the capital after the factory staff beat up some workers.
 
Ershad doubts success of talks
Jatiya Party (JP) Chairman HM Ershad yesterday expressed doubt over success of the intended dialogue between secretary-generals of ruling BNP and opposition Awami League (AL) to resolve the politicalimpasse
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Durga Puja ends with festivity
The five-day Durga Puja, the greatest religious festival of the Hindus, ended yesterday with the immersion of Durga idols all over the country.
 
Sunny applies to jail authorities for leave to appeal petition
Condemned Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) military commander Ataur Rahman Sunny submitted a special prayer to the jail authorities for filing leave to appeal yesterday, four days after he said that
 
Nobel prize for genetic discovery
2 US scientists share honour
Two US scientists, Andrew Fire and Craig Mello, yesterday won the Nobel Medicine Prize for discovering how to silence malfunctioning genes, a breakthrough which could lead to an era of new therapies to
 
Hamas govt halts work after clash with Fatah
8 people killed in fighting
Three Palestinians were wounded yesterday in West Bank clashes between gunmen from the ruling Hamas faction and its rival Fatah, the day after eight were killed in factional unrest in Gaza.
 
Rice can't recall CIA warning of al-Qaeda attack on US
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she cannot recall then-CIA chief George Tenet warning her of an impending al-Qaeda attack in the United States, as a new book claims he did two months before the
 
Ex-ISI officials may be helping Taliban
Says Musharraf; Pakistan to act if India gives evidence of ISI role in Mumbai blasts
Pakistan's intelligence service has not aided renegade Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, but retired intelligence officials could be involved in their support, President Pervez Musharraf told US television
 
Four held for ransacking puja mandap
Police arrested four goons of infamous Fazal Haq Bahini at Raozan upazila in Chittagong on Sunday night after they ransacked a puja mandap. The arrestees are Jahur, Shah Alam, Mohammad Shafi and Liton.
 
BNP men block road to protest cancellation of PM's visit
A faction of ruling BNP activists yesterday blockaded Dhaka-Sylhet highway at Lalabazar on the outskirts of Sylhet city for an hour and a half protesting against the cancellation of the prime minister's
 

 
   
 
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