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Law Commission made ineffective 'wilfully'
The Law Commission recommended about 200 new laws and amendments since its inception in 1996, but only three or four of them were adopted during the regime of Awami League government while the immediate
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Deported Mohiuddin may arrive Monday
AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed, the condemned killer of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, is likely to arrive in Dhaka on Monday, said foreign ministry officials.
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Run-down tracks make train travel risky
About a third of the country's 2,792km long railway network has become run-down, making travel by train a high risk venture with over 500 accidents a year.
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Gas pipeline bursts at Ashulia
An exposed old high pressure gas pipeline installed by the Turag developed a crack at Ashulia and started leaking huge gas after a trawler accidentally hit it yesterday evening.
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I am not that well: Khaleda
Former prime minister and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, who is virtually isolated from the rest of the leaders of the party, is not well.
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Dayaganj building collapse
Probe team to test more samples
Primary investigation into the subsidence and collapse of a six-story under-construction building at Dayaganj sweeper colony of Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) found major flaws in the samples.
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Humayun Murder at Gulshan-2
Family now hopeful of getting justice, charge sheet soon
Despite earlier findings of Bashundhara Group Chairman Ahmed Akbar Sobhan's son Shafiat Sobhan's involvement in the killing of Humayun Kabir Sabbir, police could not produce the probe report before court
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Two contractors hacked to death
An armed gang attacked contractors of a culvert construction job leaving two dead and another injured at Char Washpur on the outskirts of the city yesterday.
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Editor of Jessore weekly stabbed to death
Mostafa Kamal, editor and publisher of Jessore based "Weekly Haq Protibad' was stabbed to death by unidentified miscreants at Chanchrah on Jessore-Rajganj Road under Kotwali Police Station yesterday morning.
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Counter-Terrorism
UN team due tomorrow
A high-powered UN delegation on counter-terrorism, due to arrive tomorrow, will advise the government on strengthening counter-terror legislation and its enforcement, preventing cross-border terrorism,
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Rain brings much relief
Heatwave kills 7 more
Even though moderate rainfall in the capital and at many other parts of the country yesterday evening brought much relief after days of sultry weather, at least seven more people died of heatstroke across
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Hasina resents govt 'inaction'
Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina yesterday resented the caretaker government's 'indifference' to her call for proper treatment of the party's detained General Secretary Abdul Jalil and Presidium
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Valerie to remain CRP coordinator
The board of trustees of the Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP) yesterday took a decision to reinstate Valerie A Taylor to her previous post of the coordinator, said a news release.
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Two of a family burnt alive
Two members of a family were roasted alive in a fire that broke out at their house at village Muskuripara under Birganj upazila of Dinajpur district on Thursday night.
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Land grabbers kill 1, injures 15 in Satkhira
Armed land grabbers attacked landless people, living on a piece of government land, and killed one person and injured 15 others, three of them critically, at Bairagirchak of Kaliganj upazila in Satkhira.
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No breakthrough in EU-Iran nuke talks
EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana and Iranian nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani failed Thursday to break the deadlock over Tehran's nuclear programme but agreed to meet again in a fortnight.
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Nato soldier among 30 killed in Afghanistan
A Nato soldier was killed in a bomb blast in Afghanistan yesterday while two Afghan women and a policeman died in attacks elsewhere linked to a deepening Taliban insurgency, officials said.
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Tensions rise after deadly strike in Thailand's south
12 soldiers, 6 civilians killed in violence
Tensions spiralled yesterday in Thailand's troubled south after 12 soldiers were killed in the single deadliest attack against security forces since a separatist insurgency erupted there in 2004.
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Amitabh does not qualify as a farmer
Indian film legend Amitabh Bachchan was dealt a setback yesterday when a court ruled he did not qualify as a farmer -- a status that entitled him to buy a 20-acre farm.
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