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Laws approved to corporatise NCBs
Boards to be autonomous
The council of advisers to the caretaker government yesterday approved the draft bylaws required to turn the nationalised commercial banks (NCBs)--Sonali, Janata and Agrani--into public limited companies.
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Flights go haywire for thick fog
Dense fog caused disruptions of international flights as well as transportation across the country on road and river for more than 12 hours yesterday.
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Meghnaghat-2 Power Project
Deal with Obaidul Karim's venture faces cancellation
For contractual violation, the Power Development Board (PDB) is most likely to cancel, within February 22, the 490-megawatt Meghnaghat-2 power project deal that was awarded to Obaidul Karim's shell company
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Big guns stay out of dragnet
Mamun only remarkable arrestee in 41,000 held so far
Most of the listed top criminals, their patrons and the corruptionists still remain out of the dragnet of joint forces although the forces arrested a staggering number of people across the country since
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More fertiliser, cement, commodities seized
Joint forces in separate operations all over the country yesterday sealed off 16 warehouses, arrested five people, seized around 12,000 sacks of fertiliser, 654 sacks of fake cement and over 2,500 sacks
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Ijtema ends with Akheri Munajat today
Lakhs of devotees will join Akheri Munajat (concluding prayer) today, the final day of the three-day Biswa Ijtema, the second largest Muslim congregation after Hajj.
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Make public everything you know about me
Star editor invites Huda
Mr Nazmul Huda's threat (published yesterday in full), triggered by our story that the ACC has decided to investigate his alleged corruption, can best be described as pathetic and desperate.
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Kuakata Murder
Husband hired killers of Tania
Zahid Hasan Jewel, arrested on charge of killing his schoolteacher wife in Kuakata on January 27, gave a confessional statement to a magistrate here yesterday.
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New CEC
Govt shelves plan to pick Anisuzzaman
The caretaker government (CG) is considering another former bureaucrat instead of M Anisuzzaman Khan for the office of the chief election commissioner (CEC), which felt vacant on January 21 followingresignation
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17 OCs of DMP transferred
Officers-in-charge (OCs) of 17 police stations out of the 32 of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) were transferred yesterday.
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1,531 more held, arms seized
Mamun being grilled
Police arrested 1,531 people on various charges and seized seven firearms across the country yesterday while the army-led joint forces detained a union parishad (UP) chairman and seized a firearm from
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Gas, Power Crises
Power ministry submits work plan tomorrow
The power and energy ministry is set to present its comprehensive work plan before the advisory council of the caretaker government tomorrow under a crash programme to resolve country's nagging electricity
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Problems of poor can be solved locally
Says Prof Yunus
Nobel Peace Prize winner Prof Muhammad Yunus has said villagers can find solution to their problems from own resources. "They don't need any resource or advice from outside.
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Baghdad blast kills 127
US loses another helicopter
At least 127 people were killed and 305 wounded yesterday in the biggest attack so far this year in Iraq when a suicide truck bomb slammed into the central Baghdad district of Al-Sadriya, a security source
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Hamas, Fatah ignore truce in Gaza
Hamas kidnaps 40 security officials after 25 were killed in fighting
Fatah and Hamas clashed at Cabinet ministries, universities and security headquarters yesterday in defiance of a truce that was to have calmed the seething Gaza Strip.
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Tigers open Zim series today
TV coverage uncertain
Experienced bowler Mohammad Sharif is set to make an international comeback after five years when Bangladesh play the first one-dayer of the four-match series against Zimbabwe at the Harare Sports Club
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BDR, BSF trade gunshots on Satkhira border
Indian Border Security Force (BSF) and Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) on Friday night traded heavy gunfire across the border areas under three Satkhira upazilas with no casualty reported.
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Lankan president vows to tame Tigers
Hundreds detained before Independence Day
Surveying a newly captured eastern rebel stronghold, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse yesterday vowed to tame the Tamil Tiger rebels and liberate civilians, but said the door remained open to resume
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