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Marshall wants to meet Hasina
The 49th conference of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) begins in Dhaka tomorrow amid the main opposition Awami League's boycott in protest at what it said was the government's arrogant
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Dhaka to host river meet in January
Bangladesh and India agreed to hold the next Joint Rivers Commission (JRC) meeting in Dhaka next January after a two-day successful round in New Delhi on water share.
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Magistrate did not salute Mirza Abbas
Khandker Fatema Begum, magistrate at the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court, has refuted a UNB report published in different newspapers on September 29.
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Nobel literature award goes to Coetzee
Reclusive South African writer JM Coetzee won the 2003 Nobel Literature Prize yesterday for his writings born out of his experiences of the former apartheid system in his country.
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Al-Qaeda-Pak troops clash leaves 13 dead
Pakistani troops killed 12 al-Qaeda suspects and captured 12 militants in a dramatic siege Thursday involving helicopter gunships and ground forces in this remote northwestern area on the Afghan border.
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Iraq draft resolution sees no pivotal UN role
Plan stresses US firm control
Trying to win over skeptics, the Bush administration revised a UN resolution that emphasises an eventual transfer of power to Iraqis but still leaves the US-led coalition in firm control.
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Nukes in the making, says N Korea
North Korea raised the stakes in the nuclear standoff yesterday, claiming it had produced enough weapons-grade plutonium for half-a-dozen atomic bombs and suggesting it was already building new weapons.
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3 US troops die as violence rages in Iraq
Three US troops were killed in a span of hours as the Americans pressed their drive to root out the Iraqi resistance to their nearly six-month-old occupation, taking the toll from attacks to 88 in five
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Maintain tradition of religious harmony
Khaleda urges all on Durga Puja
Prime Minister Khaleda Zia yesterday urged all to maintain the religious harmony in order to keep the country's traditional image intact both at home and abroad.
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Two to die for killing driver
IGP asked to take action against IO for poor investigation
A court in Dhaka yesterday sentenced two to death for killing an auto-rickshaw driver in September 2000.
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Abducted Arifa to return home from Kolkata today
Baby girl Arifa, abducted and smuggled to India nearly a month ago, is expected to return home today after the Indian authorities handed over the breast-fed two-year-old yesterday to Bangladesh mission
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Security beefed up for CPA meet
Elaborate security measures have been taken in the capital ahead of the nine-day Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) conference beginning from Saturday.
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