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Fear of AL-BNP face-off
Police go on opposition crackdown ahead of today's hartal
Tension runs high as the BNP-led ruling alliance and the Awami League (AL) head for street showdown today with their programmes over the August 21 deadly grenade attack on a main opposition rally.
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Interpol experts scan carnage scene
Collect info from local investigators
Two Interpol experts arrived in Dhaka yesterday to assess the August 21 carnage and determine expertise vital to a thorough investigation into the grisly attack that killed 19 people and injured over200
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Quit immediately
Opposition parties issue 1-point demand to govt
The main stream opposition parties yesterday issued a joint declaration containing a one-point demand of immediate resignation of the government and decided to launch a united movement to press the demand
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Appointment of 19 Judges
Lawyers to boycott chief justice's court from today
Supreme Court lawyers will boycott the chief justice's court indefinitely from today, as he ignored their demand for cancellation of the swearing-in of 19 new additional judges appointed on what theysaid
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BNP firm to hold today's protest rallies
Blames AL for trying to pick quarrel
The ruling BNP is adamant to go ahead with its today's protest rallies at Muktangan in the city and elsewhere in the country despite the hartal called by Awami Jubo and Mohila leagues to protest the August
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18 AL leaders go to India for treatment today
Conditions of others hurt in grenade attacks worsen
Condition of some of the Awami League (AL) leaders, who are under treatment in different city hospitals since sustaining severe shrapnel wounds in the August 21 grenade attacks, worsened while 18 others
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Meagre response to UN flood aid appeal
Government unconcern and fallout of the August 21 grenade attacks have apparently dampened the global response to the United Nations flash appeal that was only $38 million until yesterday, far short of
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Email Threat
Sender could be one of many users
The August 23 email threatening to assassinate Leader of the Opposition Sheikh Hasina and claiming responsibility for the August 21 grenade attacks may have been sent by one of the many users who share
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Mastermind in Shamsur killing nabbed
Badly injured in interrogation
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and Detective Branch of Khulna police in a joint operation yesterday arrested Asaduzzaman Litu, a chargesheeted accused in journalist Shamsur Rahman murder case, at Abhoynagar
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Tk 1cr reward for info about rally bombers
The government has announced a reward of Tk 1 crore to anyone disclosing information about the August 21 grenade attacks on an Awami League rally on Bangabandhu Avenue.
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Fertiliser, seed crises scourge farmers
JS body for more fund, input import to tackle situation
Fertiliser price hike and seed crises are hobbling farmers' fight to rebuild post-flood life, lawmakers at a parliamentary body meeting said yesterday.
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Raozan Monk Murder
Six sentenced to death
The First Additional District and Sessions Judge Court here awarded death penalty yesterday to all the six living accusees of the murder of a Buddhist monk in Raozan on April 21, 2002.
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Dream Olympics come to an end
Efharisto! A nervous world learned the Greek word for thank you and repeated it endlessly at an astonishingly successful Athens Olympics that quelled fears, surprised sceptics and greatly honoured the
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2 bombs recovered from DMC
Police yesterday recovered two handmade bombs from Dhaka Medical College's administrative building following a bomb threat by an anonymous caller that created panic among college staff.
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Polls to 21 municipalities Oct 6, 7
The Election Commission (EC) yesterday announced schedule for the elections in 21 pourasabhas. According to the schedule elections will be held on October 6 and 7.
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Myanmar rebel leader surrenders
Leader of the Democratic Party of Arakan, a rebel organisation of Myanmar, Ba Ong Mong and his family surrendered to the security forces in Tarachha in Roangchhari upazila Saturday.
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Nagorik Samaj sees rally attack as well planned
People from across the socio-political spectrum yesterday said the attack on Sheikh Hasina and the Awami League (AL) rally was carefully orchestrated and to resist such organised and dangerous criminals
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121 O-level examinees to retake exam
As many as 121 O level examinees of May 2004 session will have to sit for a re-examination in Bengali paper on September 25 due to misplacement of their exam papers, said the British Council.
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Anti-Bush protesters in thousands hit streets
Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the fortified streets of Manhattan yesterday to protest US President Bush's foreign and domestic policies as Republican delegates gathered to nominate the president
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France given 48 hrs to lift headscarf ban
French PM calls urgent meeting over abduction of 2 journalists
French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin held an urgent meeting with three of his top ministers to discuss the kidnapping of two French journalists in Iraq by Islamic militants demanding the rescinding
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9 children killed in Afghan blast
At least nine children and one adult have been killed when a blast ripped through a school in the southeastern Afghan province of Paktia, a US military spokesperson says.
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Health minister acquitted of graft charge
A Dhaka court yesterday acquitted Health Minister Dr Khondaker Mosharraf Hossain and former Petrobangla chairman SKM Abdullah of a graft case regarding Boropukuria coal exploration at Dinajpur.
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