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Tight security plan for Amar Ekushey
The nation will tomorrow observe the Shaheed Day and International Mother Language Day through paying homage to the Language Movement martyrs amid tight security in the Central Shaheed Minar and adjoining
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Try killers of journos
Editors demand from rally
Editors of all the leading newspapers yesterday took to the street in the capital in a unique protest against the unabated killings of journalists across Bangladesh and demanded that the culprits be tried
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Markets go wild as policy body sleeps
Council fails to meet once in 2 years after formation
A high-powered council to co-ordinate fiscal, monetary and exchange rate policies supposed to meet every quarter has failed to sit even for once since its formation in March 2003, although commodity prices
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Face conspiracy with Ekushey spirit
PM urges patriotic citizens, distributes Ekushey Padak
Prime Minister Khaleda Zia yesterday urged all patriotic citizens to come forward with the spirit of Ekushey to face an unholy nexus of conspiracy, terrorism, vandalism and false propaganda against Bangladesh.
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Cattle Bone Export
Tk 25cr lost a year to bureaucratic sloth
A yearly earning of at least Tk 25 crore from exporting cattle bones and horns has been stalled since 2001, with the finance ministry putting off payment of only 15,000 euros to get a certificate clearing
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AL protests attacks, price hike
Awami League (AL) leaders at a rally in the capital yesterday accused the alliance government of infringing on the most basic rights of people.
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Man, nephew die in police action
A middle-aged man and his nephew, both with long criminal records, were killed in an 'encounter' with police in Keraniganj yesterday.
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Space for liberal thoughts shrinking in Bangladesh
Says Amnesty chief on rise of fundamentalism in South Asia
A wave of fundamentalism is sweeping the world, endangering fundamental rights and civil liberties, says Irene Khan, the chief of the rights watchdog Amnesty International.
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Safta meet cancelled
A key meeting on the South Asian Free Trade Area (Safta) pact, which is to come into effect by 2006, has been cancelled close on the heels of the postponement of the 13th Saarc summit.
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Gusts lash Dhaka, dists
Dhaka and some other districts last night experienced light rain accompanied by gusty wind.
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Killed for a meter
An electrician was beaten to death in front of his seven-year-old son in Khilgaon yesterday for failing to buy neighbours an electric meter.
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Language Movement
Unesco website yet to add background
Although the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) declared February 21 as International Mother Language Day (IMLD) in recognition of 1952's Language Movement, it has
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Dhaka deemed a role model of liberal democracy
Reaz tells on return from US
The US administration considers Bangladesh as an important partner and a role model of liberal democracy in a moderate Muslim nation, foreign ministry's Advisor Reaz Rahman said yesterday on his return
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Ashura today
The holy Ashura, commemorating the martyrdom of Hazrat Imam Hossain (R), grandson of Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (SM), will be observed today with due religious solemnity.
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Addl Sp Controversy
Outlaw link reported to govt last year
Two intelligence agencies in separate reports informed the government last year that the then additional superintendent of police of Khulna Mofazzel Hossain had close links with 12 top extremists andfive
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IMF team due tomorrow
An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission is due in the capital tomorrow to review the conditions for the fourth instalment of the Poverty Reduction Growth Facility (PRGF) loan.
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Police not planning to arrest Asadullah
Police say they have no immediate plans to arrest the controversial Rajshahi University teacher Dr Muhammad Asadullah Al Galib, citing 'lack of evidence,' but admitted they are maintaining close watch
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UP member shot, hacked to death
Unidentified assailants shot and knifed a Union Parishad (UP) member to death and injured another in Agkolia village in Daulatpur upazila Friday night.
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BCL threatens non-stop strike at DU
Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) yesterday threatened to call an indefinite strike at Dhaka University (DU) if its leader Abu Abbas Bhuiyan is not released by February 22.
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Bac staff yet to start working for ACC
The former staff of the Bureau of Anti-Corruption (Bac) did not start working at the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday as they did not receive any official orders from the commission in linewith
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Anti-tobacco Law
50,000 workers rally against govt decision
About 50 thousand bidi factory workers of Haragachh and its adjoining areas yesterday held a rally in Rangpur town and laid siege to the office of the deputy commissioner in protest against the government's
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5 to die, 6 get life for killing trader
A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced five people including a father and his son to death and jailed six others for life for killing a trader, Ahsanullah, in Baunia Bazar in Uttara in 1998.
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Cantt Entrance
5 AL leaders granted bail
The High Court (HC) yesterday granted ad interim bail to five leaders of the main opposition Awami League (AL) in a criminal case.
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Arms haul at Rangamati
Two light guns and a foreign revolver were seized from the possession of a union parishad (UP) member at Kadamtali in Baghaichhari upazila yesterday.
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Habiganj Carnage
Bilia for neutral investigation
Bangladesh Institute of Law and International Affairs (Bilia) yesterday called for an independent and transparent investigation into the January 27 grenade attack that left former finance minister Shah
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