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Dhanmondi club chief gunned down
2 cops wounded in shootout with assassins
Dhanmondi Sporting Club President Khairul Anwar Piaru was killed in a hail of bullets outside the club last night apparently over a leadership dispute.
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Grenade attack on Khulna mayor
Tayebur escapes unhurt as bomb did not blast
It was a close shave for Khulna City Mayor Shaikh Tayebur Rahman yesterday, as a hand grenade thrown at his car in an assassination bid did not explode in the southwest industrial city dubbed as the valley
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Protest rages, writers hold programme today
Protestors want govt's resignation on Azad attack
The wave of protest continued to swell across the country yesterday against Friday's gory attack on writer Humayun Azad, with demonstrators voicing demand for the government and the home minister to step
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Commentary
When elected leaders act like despots
Step by step govt is becoming more repressive
Under what law and under what right was Sheikh Hasina stopped inside Dhaka Cantonment and prevented from driving on in her car? She is not only the leader of the opposition, in which capacity she enjoys
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Prof Azad still unconscious
No headway in probe
Prominent writer Prof Humayun Azad was yet to break his anaesthesia-induced unconsciousness two days into a life-threatening machete attack on him, but officials claimed he drifted back to consciousness
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Hasina for neutral people's probe
Leader of the Opposition Sheikh Hasina yesterday accused the cadres of ruling-coalition partner Jamaat-e-Islami for the attack on prominent writer Humayun Azad, saying the freethinker drew the wrath of
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Case filed against Hasina, others
'Army rules breach' alleged
A case was filed against Awami League President Sheikh Hasina and two opposition whips Faruq Khan and Mirza Azam with Cantonment Police Station accusing them of violating army rules and assaulting army
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Shun violent agitation
PM urges AL, warns of hard line on vandalism
Prime Minister Khaleda Zia yesterday called upon the opposition Awami League to follow a democratic and peaceful course of politics shunning violent and destructive street agitation.
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2 percentage points of GDP lost in graft
Moudud tells seminar on Saarc Social Charter
Corruption is holding back economic progress and eating away no less than two percentage points of Bangladesh's GDP growth, Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Moudud Ahmed told a seminaryesterday.
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Equipment Purchase
6 civil surgeon offices rip off Tk 6cr
The Public Accounts Committee (Pac) yesterday pointed out corruption in purchase of equipment at five civil surgeon's offices under the health ministry that cost the state Tk 6 crore in loses.
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Outlaws slaughter four in Pabna
A gang of outlaws slaughtered four youths at Ataikula while miscreants shot dead a housewife at Sadar upazila in Pabna last Saturday.
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Aristide flees Haiti amid rebellion
Faced with an armed rebellion and mounting international pressure, Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide left his troubled Caribbean nation yesterday, Haitian and foreign officials said.
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Kushtia-1 By-Polls
Alliance candidate heads for victory
Reza Ahmed alias Bacchu Molla, ruling BNP candidate, is heading for a landslide victory in the by-election to Daulatpur constituency that fell vacant at the death of his father.
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India goes to polls from April 20
India is going to the polls on a four-phase schedule starting from April 20 and ending on May 10 this year, Chief Election Commissioner T S Krishnamurthy announced it at a news conference yesterday.
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U-19 WC Cricket
Pakistan in final
Pakistan won the 'battle of Asia' when they handed arch-rivals India a five-wicket defeat in the first semifinal of the ICC U-19 World Cup at the Bangabandhu National Stadium yesterday.
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Saifur censures IMF for 'double standard'
Finance Minister Saifur Rahman yesterday deflated an IMF mission for having double standard as it vented concern over price spiral of some imported items while, at the same time, pressing to raise petroleum
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Rajuk projects to come under lens
JS body recommends structural change to make it dynamic
A parliamentary sub-committee is to probe widespread allegations against Rajuk (Rajdhani Unnayan Katripakkha) in its different housing projects including Purbachal, Uttara and Rupnagar.
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Norwegian JV buys SoE
Three enterprises of Bangladesh Forest Industries Development Corporation (BFIDC) were yesterday sold to a Bangladesh-Nor-wegian joint venture (JV), anticipating those would be profitable under private
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