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All waste, but who cares?
Road divider on Airport Road dismantled only to be put back
After taking apart the road dividers on a quarter-kilometre stretch of the Airport Road in September, the Roads and Highways Department (RHD) is now putting back the concrete shards to restore the dismantled
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Peacekeepers' bodies flown home
The nation's 15 valiant army personnel for world peace returned home as martyrs in the sombre winter evening yesterday as Bangladesh mourned the tragedy that marked its biggest military loss in a single
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A Year in Reflection
A dismal walk and some hope
Today I want to tell our readers the story of our country through a walk around the heart of our city that we love but are destroying every day.
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Year of soaring crimes
The crime rate soared in 2003 exceeding the previous year's incidence despite sporadic government efforts to bridle crimes, greatly eroding people's confidence in the state-provided safety and security.
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Pabna Mental Hospital
Probe finds drug theft, spurious injections
The probe into the robbery at Pabna mental hospital has brought to light the long use of spurious injection and widespread theft at the facility reeling under acute shortage of essential drugs in thewake
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Rajuk's two plot allocations termed illegal
Audit finds Tk 12cr anomalies
A parliamentary subcommittee in a report to the Jatiya Sangsad yesterday said Rajuk (Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha)'s allocation of two plots under the public works and housing ministry to Rajuk Employees
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Khaleda championed hartal: Hasina
Awami League (AL) President and Leader of the Opposition in Parliament Sheikh Hasina yesterday hit back at the prime minister for crticising her and said Khaleda Zia was the "champion" when it comes to
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Morshed hopes for consensus on Safta
Foreign Minister M Morshed Khan yesterday hoped that the leaders of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) would reach a consensus on establishing South Asian Free Trade Area (Safta)
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Salma Sobhan's Janaza today
Namaz-e-janaza of Barrister Salma Sobhan, a lawyer, social worker and human-rights activist, will be held at Gulshan Central Mosque today after Zohr prayers.
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JP leader gunned down in Mongla
JCD vice-president injured in drive-by bomb attack in Khulna
Unidentified gunmen shot and killed a local Jatiya Party (JP) leader in Mongla in Bagerhat Tuesday night, the second political murder since December 15 that prompted a wave of protest and an indefinite
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Cost-of-living index surges over 10pc in 2003
Consumer report says
Cost of living went up 10.48 percent in 2003 due to soaring prices of consumer goods and services including house rent, according to the annual report of Consumers Association of Bangladesh (Cab).
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Travel agents defer strike by two weeks
The travel agents, scheduled to go on an indefinite strike from today, has deferred their agitation by two weeks considering the plight of Hajj pilgrims and smooth functioning of Hajj flights that began
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Women repression doubles
The incidents of women repression doubled last year compared to 2002, a study carried out by a legal aid group said yesterday.
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Blue Panel sweeps DUTA polls
The main opposition Awami League-backed Blue Panel yesterday swept the election of Dhaka University Teachers' Association, bagging the posts of president and general secretary and seven others in the15-member
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N'ganj Jubo Dal leader David arrested
Police arrested Momin Ullah David, joint convenor of the Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal's Narayanganj town unit, at Panorama Plaza Shopping Centre at Bangabandhu Road in the town yesterday.
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