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5,000 extra personnel to curb crime
Special drive during Ramadan to clear footpaths off iftar shops, traffic jams
Forty mobile courts and as many police checkpoints backed by around 5,000 additional personnel will be set up in the capital to keep close tabs on law and order during Ramadan.
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Essentials market
Control flops as prices spiral
The prices of essentials on the kitchen market are spiralling, despite a number of government steps to put a lid on prices during Ramadan.
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Fence off Buriganga, stop grabbers' return
Demand environmentalists
Environmentalists are demanding construction of boundary walls and walkways along the banks of Buriganga, as well as legal action to protect the land reclaimed from encroachers during the recently concluded
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US col killed as rockets hit Baghdad hotel
American deputy defence secy survives attack
In a daring strike, insurgents attacked the heart of the US occupation yesterday, unleashing a barrage of rockets against the Al Rasheed hotel where US officials live and where visiting Deputy Defence
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Ramadan begins tomorrow
The holy month of Ramadan begins tomorrow as the moon of the lunar month was not sighted yesterday.
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Traders' greed pushes prices high: Ministry
A section of traders and importers are making the essentials market unstable ahead of the holy month of Ramadan to make brisk profits, a top-ranking commerce ministry official said.
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Tigers seek 6-yr rule before final peace deal
Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels, who are due to unveil a landmark power-sharing plan this week, will seek a six-year interim council before a final deal, a press report here said yesterday.
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News analysis
JS bodies fail to deliver for negative politics
The parliamentary standing committees, intended to operate as crucial supplements to the parliamentary system, are failing to fulfil this function due to the negative politics of the ruling and opposition
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Robbers kill bus driver, criminal shot dead
Unidentified criminals gunned down a top criminal of Demra and robbers stabbed the driver of a Dhaka-bound bus at Daudkandi yesterday who died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH).
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Of a blessed bureaucrat
Fabulous perks, frequent foreign trips and unwarranted influence on administrative affairs of a joint secretary have fuelled resentment among officials of the women and children affairs ministry and its
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Road-builder accuses Nasser Rahman of death threat
Md Nuruzzaman, executive director of Yusuf and Brothers, a construction firm, yesterday brought fresh allegations against Nasser Rahman, saying the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) lawmaker was threatening
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Clarification
The High Commission of India in Dhaka in a press release contradicted parts of The Daily Star report headlined "Delhi to consult Dhaka after taskforce report", published on October 5.
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Twin quakes in China kill at least 9
Authorities lowered water levels of two reservoirs in northwestern China after two powerful tremors shook the remote, earthquake-prone region, killing at least nine people and injuring dozens, the government
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Govt warns overseas job seekers of fraud
The Ministry of Expatriates Welfare and Overseas Employment has asked job seekers not to contact any agent or pay any money to anyone for employment in Italy and Malaysia.
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Clarification
MA Muhaimin Saleh, president of the Association of Travel Agents of Bangladesh (Atab), has clarified a report carried by The Daily Star on October 13 under the headline "Fare plight in Hajj flight.
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