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Mass arrests stopped
Govt believes 'conspiracy' foiled
The government yesterday apparently stopped mass arrests and asked the police not to harass the innocent after more than 15,000 people were arrested in an eight-day dragnet.
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No-confidence Programme
Police juggernaut throws AL men out of action
A heavy police presence throughout the capital yesterday marked the subdued third and final day of the "mass no-confidence" programme of the main opposition party Awami League (AL).
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Commentary
Question to the Prime Minister
Do you really believe what you said?
We are dumbfounded, to say the least, to read about your speech at the BNP Parliamentary Party meeting the day before yesterday where you reportedly said that there has not been any harassment of theinnocent
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Bribes rule supreme at overcrowded jail
Jail police are taking Tk 80 instead of the fee of Tk 2 from each relative of the prisoners held during the mass arrests to let them meet the arrestees languishing in the central jail.
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Effect of Post-MFA Regime
IMF to give loans to offset trade loss
Bangladesh will get loans from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to cover its trade losses incurred in the post-Multi-fibre Agreement (MFA) regime from next year.
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Violence mars third leg of Indian polls
Six people were killed and at least 15 injured in violence which marred voting in five of the 11 Indian states where balloting took place yesterday in the third phase of marathon general elections.
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FBCCI offers political reform agenda
Proposes six provinces, more power for president, 20-ministry cabinet
The apex trade body of the country yesterday came up with a set of proposals to reform key areas, including politics, now in a confrontational situation.
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Bulgarian president's car under Iraq attack
2 GIs, 8 guerrillas killed in other incidents; Britain ponders sending more troops
Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov's convoy came under attack by gunmen late Sunday during a surprise visit to his country's forces in the southern Iraqi city of Kerbala, the defense ministry of Bulgaria
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Tobacco top cause of cancer in country
Seminar told
Smoking tobacco and its allied products is the number one cause of cancer among the males, while women patients mostly suffer from cervix cancer in Bangladesh, speakers at a seminar said yesterday.
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Cabinet okays 14th constitution change
The cabinet yesterday approved a bill for the 14th amendment to the constitution proposing nine changes including 45 reserved seats for women in parliament.
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Constitution Changes
Local body chairmen unhappy
Speakers including Pourashabha and Union Parishad chairmen yesterday said at a roundtable the 14th amendment to the constitution on local government ignoring their reservations will be 'undemocratic',
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Jalil still sticks to 'trump card'
Awami League General Secretary Abdul Jalil yesterday said his party will use the much-talked-about trump card to unseat the BNP-led coalition government by April-30 as four days are still there before
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Moudud defends mass arrests to foil AL plan
Law Minister Moudud Ahmed yesterday defended the government step of arrests aimed at foiling the main opposition Awami League's (AL's) April 30 deadline for toppling the ruling coalition.
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BDR-BSF confce in city from April 29
A five-day director general (DG)- level border conference between Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) and Border Security Force (BSF) of India begins at the conference room of BDR headquarters in the city on April
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WB, IMF happy with economy, not with governance
Finance Minister M Saifur Rahman yesterday said the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) were 'satisfied' with Bangladesh's economic performance, but were 'unhappy' about its progress in administrative
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HC fines RU Tk 5,000 for harming student
The High Court (HC) yesterday fined Rajshahi University Tk 5,000 for harming a brilliant student who appealed for re-examining his answer script of a subject four years ago.
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Janatar Mancha
Court rejects discharge petitions
A Dhaka court yesterday rejected discharge petitions of former state minister for planning Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir and seven others accused in the Janatar Mancha (sedition case) case.
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Most distant planet found
Astronomers working in New Zealand said yesterday they had located the most distant planet so far discovered, a Jupiter-sized object 17,000 light years away.
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Iraq group threatens to kill Italians
Al Arabiya TV has broadcast a tape it says shows three Italians held captive in Iraq and say their captors will kill them in five days if the Italian people do not protest their country's military presence
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Mass Arrests
CPB stages mass hunger strike
The Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) yesterday staged mass hunger strike to protest against 'mass arrests of innocent civilians and repression of democratic agitation programmes by opposition parties,
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50 hurt as JCD men swoop on Sust sit-in
The activists of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) swooped on the general students of Shahjalal University of Science & Technology (Sust) on the campus yesterday, leaving at least 50 injured.
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Rabbani laid to rest
Commodore Golam Rabbani, managing director of Korean Export Processing Zone (KEPZ) and former chairman of Chittagong Port Authority, was laid to rest at Banani Military Graveyard in the city yesterday.
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