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Rab seizes Harris Chy's luxury SUV
Ex-BNP MP Salahuddin's super-costly car found parked at Morshed Khan's business office
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) yesterday seized a luxury sport utility vehicle (SUV) owned by Harris Chowdhury, former political secretary to immediate past prime minister Khaleda Zia, and arrested histwo
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Confiscating Properties
ACC list of 15 graft suspects sent to govt
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday sent a list of 15 graft suspects to the Cabinet Division and home ministry to initiate the process of confiscating their properties.
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Formalin fish back in city markets
The supply of fish from Myanmar to the wholesale markets in the capital has returned to almost "normal" just five days after the biggest ever drive against formalin-laden fish at three large fish markets.
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AL for June polls after credible voter list
The Awami League (AL) at a meeting with the chief election commissioner (CEC) yesterday demanded holding of the parliamentary election by June after preparing a credible voter list with photographs instead
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500 more CI sheets of relief seized
The joint forces arrested two local leaders of BNP and its youth wing Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal for possessing corrugated iron (CI) sheets meant for relief in Netrakona and Lalmonirhat and recovered 497 such
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Chief justice retires with controversy at heels
With a number of controversies surrounding him, Chief Justice Syed JR Mudassir Husain retired yesterday without receiving a traditional farewell from the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA).
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Death for terrorism
Says law adviser
Law Adviser Mainul Hosein yesterday said the upcoming Anti-terrorism Ordinance 2007 would allow capital punishment be awarded to anyone found guilty of terrorism.
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Yunus tells of new goals for students
Receives honorary degree at DU convocation
Nobel Peace Prize winner Prof Muhammad Yunus yesterday urged Dhaka University students to be more original in their thought and be more innovative in finding ways to take advanced technology to the poor.
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Power plant chokes with imported coal
The country's lone coal-based power plant at Barapukuria is now facing difficulties in generating electricity due to use of imported coal with high sulphur content and excessive clay and sand, plant sources
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Gias Kamal blasts the powerful for looting relief
Tries to justify allotment of land to Huda's wife
Acting President of The Bangladesh Society For The Enforcement Of Human Rights (BSEHR) Gias Kamal Chowdhury yesterday blasted some powerful people of the immediate past government for 'taking undue money
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Crack develops in burned building
ntv chief dismisses rumour of sabotage
A crack was found yesterday on the ninth floor of Bangladesh Steel and Engineering Corporation (BSEC) Bhaban after a devastating blaze burned the 11-storey building two days ago at the teeming KarwanBazar
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Dhanmondi yesterday's demolition target
50 structures knocked down
Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) yesterday knocked down more than 50 illegal structures, most of those partly, in Dhanmondi area.
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Hasina asks govt not to delay election
Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked the interim government not to deprive the people of their democratic rights to vote by procrastinating in the name of reforms.
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Babul's bail petition rejected
A Dhaka court yesterday rejected a bail petition of detained Jamuna Group Chairman Nurul Islam Babul in a case field against him for anti-state activities and illegally possessing public and private properties.
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Bribery
OC closed, 3 SIs suspended
Officer-in-charge (OC) of Katiadi Police Station in Kishoreganj was closed to District Police Lines yesterday while three sub-inspectors (SI) were suspended in connection with detaining people and forcing
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Outlaw killed in 'shootout'
An underground operative was killed in an encounter with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members in the town early yesterday. Identity of the dead could not be known.
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Car bomb kills 10 in Baghdad market
A car bomb killed 10 people and wounded 21 near a vegetable market in Baghdad yesterday, Iraqi police said, as insurgents kept up a campaign of bombings despite a security crackdown backed by US reinforcements.
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Ailing Castro breaks public silence
Says he feels more energetic
In his first live broadcast since falling ill last July, Cuban leader Fidel Castro called Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's daily radio talk show to say he was feeling "more energetic.
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Serbia makes new arrests for Kosovo killings
Serbia has arrested four suspects in the killing in 1999 of three jailed U.S.-Albanian brothers who had joined a guerrilla war in the breakaway Kosovo province, Serbia's war crimes prosecutor said yesterday.
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