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Rotary Pacemaker Bank for poor patients opens
Nobel peace laureate and founder of Grameen Bank Prof Dr Muhammad Yunus inaugurated the country's first Rotary Pacemaker Bank at the National Heart Foundation in the city yesterday.
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Fire At CU Printing Press
Valuables worth Tk 41 lakh gutted
Valuable printing machineries, computers and furniture worth over Tk 41 lakh were reduced to ashes in a devastating fire at the printing press of Chittagong University (CU) on the campus early yesterday.
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Tribute paid to Waheedul Haque
Speakers at a memorial meeting yesterday paid tribute to Waheedul Haque, a renowned journalist and Tagore song specialist, saying that he was a man of vast knowledge, integrity and secular thinking.
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Education UK Exhibition 2007 begins
Deputy High Commissioner of Britain to Bangladesh Stephen Bridges yesterday said his country wants to promote the linkages with Bangladesh through education.
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Polio
4 cases detected in Banshkhali
Bangladesh witnessed an unexpected comeback of polio virus after more than five years in 2006 and four of the 17 new cases have alone been detected at Banskhali in Chittagong, officials of civil surgeon
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Conjoined twins die at DMCH
The conjoined twins that were born at Jobaida Memorial Hospital in Gazipur on Sunday breathed their last at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) on Wednesday night, as their eight-chambered-heart
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BSF, BDR trade fire
Indian Border Security Force (BSF) and the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) traded gunfire on Laxmidari border under Sadar upazila in the district yesterday.
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Public Library hours cut
The Public Library authorities in a sudden move yesterday reduced the library opening hours, sparking off protests from readers.
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ntv transmission to resume soon
Managing Director of ntv Enayetur Rahman yesterday said the transmission of the private TV channel will resume soon although its equipments and machineries were destroyed by an inferno at Bangladesh Steel
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Detention of Laloo
HC rule on govt
The High Court yesterday issued a rule upon the government to explain why the detention order of Helaluzzaman Talukder Laloo, a former BNP MP, should not be declared illegal.
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McKinnon due on Mar 20
Commonwealth Secretary General Donald C McKinnon is scheduled to arrive here on a two-day official visit to Bangladesh on March 20.
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JMB cadre gets 30 years
A special tribunal in Rajshahi yesterday sentenced JMB cadre Abdur Rahman alias Khalid to 30 years' imprisonment. Fourth Special Tribunal Judge Abu Saleh Sheikh Md Zahrul Haq handed down the verdict.
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EWU scholarship award ceremony
East West University (EWU) held a merit scholarship award ceremony for Spring Semester 2007 at its auditorium in the city yesterday, says a press release.
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Death anniversary
Today is the 5th death anniversary of journalist Shaikh Harun-ar-Rashid Khokan. Khulna Press Club and Khulna Union of Journalists (KUJ) have chalked out separate programmes to observe the day.
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