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Dhaka to erase West's Islam misconception
Agrees to join 8-country nucleus; Singapore pledges more manpower import, investment
Dhaka yesterday accepted an offer from Singapore to join an eight-country Nucleus Steering Committee (NSC) to remove misperceptions of Islam in the West and agreed to take steps to co-operate in the war
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Brothers freed from captors
Police find them at Joypurhat
Police yesterday rescued abducted schoolboys Sajib and Sabbir from the house of a BNP activist in Joypurhat, 72 hours after their kidnapping from Uttara and a day after freeing a trader abducted by activists
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Requisition brings quick bucks to cops
Ministry directive fails to stop use of private vehicles
Police under cover of so-called requisition use about 300 private vehicles of businesspeople a day by force to carry out anticrime sweeps in Dhaka, flouting a home ministry directive, officials said.
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Charges on judiciary traded in Sangsad
Govt interferes in judges work: AL; AL robbed judicial independence: BNP
Key ruling party BNP and the main opposition Awami League (AL) swapped allegations about interference in the judiciary in parliament yesterday.
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Mass Arrests
Govt mum a month after HC deadline
The government has yet to reply to the High Court's April 27 rule that asked for a report in three weeks on names and particulars of people arrested in a wholesale sweep and the steps for their release.
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Violence rages thru' Iraq cities: 85 killed
3 US soldiers among dead
At least 85 people have died and more than 320 were wounded in Iraq as insurgents launched bloody assaults in five cities to disrupt next week's formal handover to Iraqi rule.
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US Fact-finding Mission
Cops bar locals to talk freely
Police controlled the visit of three US embassy officials to the northwest to gather information about militant activities of an Islamist outfit, the officials alleged yesterday, hours before they left
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Crowley hails Bangladesh
Congressman Joseph Crowley has said India and Bangladesh are still developing and becoming strong democracies.He was at a hearing on South Asia yesterday at the House International Relations Committee.
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Judge's Writ Petition on Intimidation
Ex-CJ wonders if lower courts can work freely
Former chief justice (CJ) Mahmudul Amin Choudhury yesterday expressed his surprise at the writ petition filed by a judge who complained of pressure by two public prosecutors (PP) and wondered if lower
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Rivals slaughter five outlaws
Underground political operatives Wednesday night slaughtered five members of their rival faction at Naripota village under Damurhuda upazila of Chuadanga district, in the latest of a long line of bloodletting
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CEC reiterates army watch
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) MA Syed yesterday said there is no alternative to deployment of army personnel at every polling centre for the Dhaka-10 by-polls to be free and fair.
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Incentives to perk up poultry
The government yesterday decided to provide a range of incentives including loan facilities to reinvigorate the country's poultry sector that was hard hit by last year's public panic over bird flue.
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BIMST-EC
Dhaka signs protocol today
Bangladesh signs a protocol with other BIMST-EC countries today as the prelude to striking a deal for free trade among the Bay of Bengal communities.
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Cops raid DU hall, pick 20 but Tanjil
Police and detectives early yesterday raided Jahurul Haq Hall of Dhaka University but failed to net Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) leader Tanjilur Rahman Tanjil, an accused in Sunday's cops killing.
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2-shift JS session from Sunday
The budget session of the Jatiya Sangsad will sit in two shifts from Sunday in line with an agreement reached by the key ruling party BNP and main opposition Awami League (AL) yesterday.
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Correction
The Daily Star news-story headlined "Thai Airways to manage Ctg airport" carried two inadvertent mistakes yesterday.
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Euro 2004
Voeller quits
Germany coach Rudi Voeller resigned after the three-time European champions crashed out of Euro 2004.
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AL blames PM for by-polls blueprint
Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has virtually come to a standstill as the prime minister is fully occupied with the Dhaka-10 by-polls.
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Hasina asks AL men to canvass for Mannan
Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina has asked her party's Dhaka city unit leadership to engage its activists in campaigning for Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh nominee Abdul Mannan in Dhaka-10 by-polls.
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BNP asks JCD president to step down
Ruling BNP's high command yesterday asked Shahabuddin Laltu, president of the party's student wing Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), to step down.
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JMJB atrocity reappears
Much in the same way as the Bangla Bhai's force, a newly formed village 'peace-keeping' body yesterday killed an outlawed political operative after publicly putting him on its hit list.
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SSC results tomorrow
The results of the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinations across the country will be published tomorrow, an official announcement said yesterday.
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Technical Glitch
F28 flight delayed for 4 hrs
The newly procured Bangladesh Biman F-28 aircraft faced technical failure once again yesterday, forcing its Chittagong flight to delay for around four hours. The flight No.
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Deal signed to sell Rupali Bank
Bangladesh yesterday signed an agreement with a British consortium to prepare the sale of state-owned Rupali Bank (RB) by the end of the year to satisfy conditions attached to the World Bank (WB) andInternational
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Faruque's bail rejected again
A Dhaka court yesterday rejected the bail petitions for Proshika President Qazi Faruque Ahmed in three criminal cases including one for sedition.
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2 shot, IBBL car hijacked
Criminals yesterday in separate incidents shot a travel agency owner in Motijheel and in Mohammadpur carjacked by shooting its driver.
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Iran releases eight British military servicemen
Eight British servicemen were freed yesterday after three nights in the hands of Iranian Revolutionary Guards, ending a diplomatic wrangle that had threatened to inflame tensions over Britain's presence
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