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Prof Yunus gives up on political mission
Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus yesterday backed down from forming a political party citing the refusal of his political backers to publicly support or join his party.
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Charges pressed against Dulu
93 others also on charge sheet of Natore arson, looting case
The police yesterday submitted charge sheet against former deputy minister and BNP lawmaker Ruhul Quddus Talukder Dulu and 93 others in a case filed for arson and looting.
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Appointment of Competent Judges
It's about time for strict constitutional criteria
Law Commission chairman tells The Daily Star
Incompetent persons could make it to the judiciary thanks mainly to inadequately defined constitutional criteria for appointment of judges, and more stringent qualifications should be prescribed to arrest
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Patients suffer as doctors, staff clash at DMCH
A trivial matter triggered a clash between doctors and employees at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) yesterday disrupting services at the country's largest public hospital for about two hours.
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Emergency created uncertainty for journalists
Says US envoy
US Ambassador to Bangladesh Patricia A Butenis yesterday said the prevailing state of emergency has created uncertainty for the journalists as they are struggling to find a way past the informal controls
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No breakthrough yet in serial blasts probe
Ctg cops hunt for woman beggar
Intelligence officials are yet to make any breakthrough in finding out those responsible for the near-simultaneous bomb blasts at three railway stations in Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet on May 1.
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Mujahid sued for extortion
An extortion case was lodged against former social welfare minister and Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid, former Jamaat lawmaker Moulana Farid Uddin Chowdhury and four others
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Yunus writes letter to all
Dear citizens,
Regards to you all. I have written to you twice earlier. I wrote the first letter on February 11 seeking your opinions whether I should join politics.
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Decision welcomed
Leaders of major political parties including the Awami League (AL) and the BNP, members of the civil society and various other professional bodies last night welcomed Dr Yunus for his 'wise decision'to
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Telltale evidence of corruption at PSC
Evidence of gross irregularities in the 27th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) examinations points to a syndicate of corrupt officials led by the top office bearers of the Public Service Commission (PSC).
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Mosharraf, Milon sued for extortion
Charge-framing against 3 ex-state ministers May 6
Separate extortion cases were filed yesterday against former health minister Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, former state minister for education ANM Ehsanul Haque Milon and five others.
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EC to hold talks with editors on reforms
The Election Commission (EC) will hold talks with editors of national dailies and senior journalists in the middle of this month seeking their opinion on draft proposals for electoral reforms, the ECsecretary
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Tiger found dead in Sundarbans
A 12-year-old Royal Bengal Tiger apparently died of a heart attack on the bank of a pond at Harbaria camp under Chandpai range of the east wing of Sundarbans Forest Division Wednesday.
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SI held, OC closed for bribery
A sub-inspector (SI) of police was arrested and the officer-in-charge (OC) of Joydebpur Police Station in Gazipur was closed yesterday following allegations of taking bribe, torture and forcing a detainee
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US opens talks with Syria on Iraq
Rice meets Syrian FM; US forces kill top Iraqi militant
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met Syria's foreign minister yesterday in the first high-level talks between the two countries in years, hours after the chief military spokesman in Iraq said Syria
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Journalists being harassed taking advantage of emergency
Journo leaders allege
Leaders of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) and Dhaka Union of Journalists (DUJ have alleged that a vested quarter within the government is harassing journalists and mass media taking advantage
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Chandrika stripped of perks by Lankan SC
Sri Lanka's Supreme Court yesterday stripped former president Chandrika Kumaratunga of her official staff and 36 government cars, saying that she was not entitled to extravagant privileges.
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UK offers help in fighting terrorism
Britain wants to help enhance Bangladesh's capability of combating terrorism as both countries are working together to fight against the threat of global and internal terrorism.
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Bomb strikes Afghan army bus in Kabul
A bomb struck a bus taking Afghan soldiers to work in the capital Kabul early yesterday, killing the driver and wounding 25 more people, police and the defence ministry said.
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Rejoinder, our reply
MGH group in a rejoinder yesterday contradicted with a news item published in The Daily Star on April 28 under the headline "Tk 270cr laundered money recovered".
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