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Separation of Judiciary
SC chides govt for its failure to specify time
Govt now says it is difficult to say how much time will be needed
The Supreme Court (SC) yesterday took the government to task after it failed to specify the time it needs to fully comply with the court directives to separate the judiciary from the executive despite
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No plan to up fuel prices
Govt calculates financial impact of global oil rally on BPC
The government has no immediate plan to increase petroleum prices in spite of the oil price rally on the international market considering the flood damages.
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Fanatic tempers run high against Ahmadiyyas
Attack on sect's HQ on Aug 27 planned
Religious bigots encouraged apparently by the ban on Ahmadiyya publications intensified aggression to the religious minority sect in a desperate bid to force the government to declare the Ahmadiyyas non-Muslim.
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Phelps reignites US, Federer crashes out
The United States, led off by Michael Phelps, held off the vaunted Australian squad anchored by Ian Thorpe to win the 4x200m freestyle relay yesterday at the Athens Olympics.
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15 injured in Jessore bomb attack
Unnamed criminals hurled five bombs in and outside a teashop, leaving 15 people injured, 11 of them critically in Jessore on Monday, witnesses and police said.
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Water-sharing Meet
Dhaka may request Delhi again for talks
Dhaka may send another letter to India to fix the date for holding the secretary-level Joint River Commission (JRC) meeting to reach a resolution on water-sharing of the common rivers between the neighbours.
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Rebels force Nepal top firms to close
Luxury hotel bombed
Many top companies in Nepal shut down yesterday after Maoist rebels bombed a luxury hotel, raising fears for the health of the Himalayan kingdom's tourism-dependent economy.
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New bird species found
A new species of flightless bird has been discovered living on a tiny island in the northern Philippines where the inhabitants formerly ate them, scientists and birdwatchers said yesterday.
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7 killed in Baghdad mortar attack
Police officer, Sunni insurgent commander gunned down with aide
Seven people were killed, including two children, and 47 others wounded when at least one mortar bomb landed near a Baghdad police station yesterday, the health ministry said.
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DU turns down burial demand of Azad's family
Dhaka University (DU) syndicate last night turned down the demand of eminent teacher and writer Prof Humayun Azad's family to bury him on the premises of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam's grave on the
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Post-flood Programme
Saifur rules out ballooning budget
Finance and Planning Minister M Saifur Rahman yesterday ruled out forming a special fund or expanding the size of the budget and said about Tk 5,000 crore set aside for maintenance and repair would be
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Gujarat Riots
Court reopens 2,000 cases amid bias claim
India's Supreme Court yesterday reopened about 2,000 cases from Hindu-Muslim riots which ravaged Gujarat two years ago amid allegations of bias by the state's Hindu nationalist government.
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Keraniganj Killing
Youths flee as cops file case against 200
Youths fled the Golambazar village in Subadda union after cops filed an assault case against 200 people, linking them with the attack on a police camp at Keraniganj over the killing of rickshaw garage
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Indian pirates kidnap 10 fishermen
Indian pirates kidnapped 10 Bangladeshi fishermen from Raimongal river in Sundarbans early yesterday.They threatened to kill the fishermen if a ransom of Tk 10 lakh was not paid within 72 hours.
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837 contract pneumonia
Pneumonia continues to be the most prevalent disease in flood shelters with 837 more children reported to have contracted the infection yesterday.
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