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Top 20 defaulters make NCBs sweat
4 state-owned banks recover only Tk 16cr of Tk 2,819cr stuck-up loans last year
Despite various government steps, the four nationalised commercial banks (NCBs) recovered only Tk 16 crore in calendar year 2003 out of Tk 2,819 crore default loans lying with their top 20 loan defaulters.
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Bau Bazar Slum Blaze
4 children burnt alive, 25,000 homeless
At least four children were incinerated and 5,000 shanties reduced to ashes leaving over 25,000 people homeless in a devastating fire at Bau Bazar slum in Gulshan yesterday, police and firefighters said.
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JCD men issue harsh threat to DU teachers
A group of students, mostly pro-government Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) activists, yesterday issued threats to the demonstrating Dhaka University (DU) teachers from a rally just a few yards from Battala
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ICC Under-19 World Cup
Hosts regain Plate glory
Bangladesh clinched the Plate title of the ICC Under-19 World Cup after a nerve-wrecking eight-run victory over favourites Australia at Fatullah Cricket Stadium yesterday.
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Cops enjoy little public trust
TIB survey finds 98.5pc city residents dissatisfied with police
An overwhelming majority of people places little confidence in police, an anti-graft body's survey revealed yesterday, prompting leading civil society members to call for immediate reforms of the force.
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Rampal Jamaat leader bombed to death
Rickshaw-van-puller dies in attack; OC closed; BNP leader, activist arrested
Unidentified assailants bombed to death the vice-president of Jamaat-e-Islami Rampal unit in Bagerhat in a drive-by attack that also killed his rickshaw-van-puller early yesterday, prompting police to
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3 killed, body Found in city
Two traders and a worker were killed in separate incidents and a decomposed body was found in the city in the last 18 hours ending yesterday evening.
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Microcredit-lending NGOs
Saifur slams high rate on borrowers
Finance Minister M Saifur Rahman yesterday fired a broadside at microcredit-providing NGOs for charging high rates of interest from poor borrowers.
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Attack horror haunts writer
Humayun Azad's health remained unchanged yesterday and his family said the horror of the butcher's knife attack on the prominent writer apparently haunted him in hospital bed.
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Forex Smuggling Case
Charges framed Against Dr Iqbal
The First Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court, Dhaka, yesterday framed charges against former Awami League (AL) lawmaker Dr HBM Iqbal and 29 others in a foreign currency smuggling case.
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Manpower export to Malaysia gets delayed
Elections to drag process
Resumption of manpower export to Malaysia has again become uncertain following a sudden political development in Kuala Lumpur, according to sources.
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SSC Exams
200 students expelled on the first day
Some 200 examinees were expelled for cheating on the first day of Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinations yesterday, according to reports received from across the country.
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Dhaka, Delhi agree hydro data exchange
Move will help better flood forecast
India agreed to take necessary steps for ensuring speedy transmission of hydrological data to help Bangladesh prepare for flood well ahead, said an official release following a bilateral meeting hereon
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Norwegians move to salvage Lankan truce
Power struggle in Tamil Tiger leadership
Scandinavian truce monitors opened talks with Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers as a rift within the rebel leadership threatened to undermine an already fragile ceasefire, officials said.
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Garment unit boiler blast kills two
An iron boiler explosion killed two young women and injured 14 others, two of them critically, at a garment factory near Kadamtoli Bus Station in the city yesterday morning.
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CPJ condemns attack on journos at DU
The delegates of New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) yesterday expressed deep concern over the attack on journalists on Dhaka University campus by the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD)Wednesday.
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JS session Now to run till Mar 30
The current session of the Jatiya Sangsad scheduled to be prorogued yesterday will continue till March 30 after an 11-day break from today.
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Hartal across country tomorrow
Mainstream opposition parties will enforce a daylong countrywide hartal tomorrow in the first opposition unity on hot-button issues since the BNP-led alliance with the Jamaat-e-Islami took office in 2001.
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Top al-Qaeda leader caught in Yemen
Security forces have captured one of the top leaders of the al-Qaeda terror network in Yemen during a continuing hunt for dozens of Islamic extremists holed up in the southern province of Abyan, officials
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Check mosque loudspeakers
Roundtable suggests
Speakers at a roundtable on the 'Draft Noise Pollution Control Act, 2004' yesterday recommended for bringing the use of loudspeakers in mosques under the law's purview.
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Resignation demand an emotional one: Altaf
Home Minister Altaf Hossain Chowdhury yesterday said the students and teachers at Dhaka University enraged by the brutal attack on prominent writer Humayun Azad demanded his resignation out of emotion
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Bomb hurled at ex-minister's car in city
An unknown attacker hurled a handmade bomb at the car of Awami League legislator Talukder Abdul Khaleque at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital last night, causing damage to his car.
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Plan on to assign SSF to VVIPs
The government is planning to broaden the scope of work of the Special Security Forces (SSF) to ensure security blanket for both local and foreign VVIPs.
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Singapore least corrupt in Asia, Indonesia worst
Singapore is the least corrupt nation in Asia and Indonesia the worst, but most countries in the region have shown improvements in dealing with the problem, according to a survey of foreign business executives
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Mobile park to Amuse outlying people
A private company is going to launch a door-to-door mobile amusement park to entertain people throughout the country in view of city-centred and inadequate recreational facilities.
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