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Form action bodies to end govt misrule
Hasina asks people from Paltan rally
Leader of the Opposition Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked people to form action committees with pro-liberation and progressive forces across the country and fight unitedly against the coalition government
 
'Gittu' Nasir, 2 others killed in 'crossfire'
Death toll rises to 240
Notorious Shibir cadre Gittu Nasir and listed criminal Apu Kumar Nath were killed in Chittagong and outlawed Purbo Banglar Communist Party (PBCP-ML-Lal Potaka) operative Manjur Rahman Sardar died in Rajshahi
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Investigators raid Galib's house, office, madrasa
Gather 'evidence trove'; probe implicates unnamed Islamist group in grenade attack on Rangpur Brac office
Investigators from the Joint Interrogation Cell (JIC) in Dhaka, allied with police from Rajshahi, Bogra and Gopalganj, seized a huge trove of evidence during a raid on the house and madrasa of militant
 
Islamist Militants
PM to explain govt stance at Sangsad
Prime Minister Khaleda Zia will explain her government position on the Islamist militants in her winding up speech of the current session of parliament, she assured an opposition lawmaker in the House
 
Dhabi group offers $2b investment
Plan includes Dhaka-Ctg expressway, power plant, 5-star hotel
An Abu Dhabi-based group has come up with the second largest investment plan offered by any single investor in the country, surpassed only by Tata Group.
 
Malaysian Crackdown
8 Bangladeshis rounded up
Eight Bangladeshi nationals were arrested in the nationwide 'Ops Tegas' crackdown on illegal immigrants by the Malaysian government.
 
Opposition announces month long agitation plan
Hartal on Mar 27
The mainstream opposition parties yesterday announced a series of identical agitation programmes, including a dawn-to-dusk hartal on March 27, demanding resignation of the government and tackling theextremist
 
Cops, BNP attack AL activists
60 hurt; many barred from joining rally
Police and BNP activists yesterday attacked leaders and activists of the Awami League (AL) and its front organisations in the capital and elsewhere on their way to attend a party rally at Paltan Maidan,
 
Ex-Bac staff ignores govt order, signs as ACC director
Flouting a government prohibition, the former director administration of the now defunct Bureau of Anti-Corruption (Bac) yesterday issued an office order designating himself as director administration
 
NCBs fail to cut credit growth, operating cost
Little progress in loan recovery as govt holds half the sum
The four Nationalised Commercial Banks (NCBs) have failed to reduce their operating expenses and to control credit growth as per a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the central bank signed two years
 
UN forces strike back in Congo
Kill 50 accused of assassinating nine Bangladeshi UN peacekeepers
UN peacekeepers killed at least 50 militiamen in a gunfight in northeastern Congo Tuesday, five days after nine Bangladeshi UN troops were killed there, the United Nations said yesterday.
 
Saddam tribunal judge shot dead
Blast outside army recruitment centre kills 13
Gunmen in Baghdad shot and killed a judge working for the Iraqi special tribunal set up to try Saddam Hussein and his top lieutenants, Interior Ministry officials said yesterday.
 
JU flouts rules to appoint 13
Jahangirnagar University (JU) authorities have appointed 13 teachers at archaeology and zoology departments against five posts allegedly in a show of nepotism and politicisation, prompting criticism from
 
Army scraps landmines
The Bangladesh Army has destroyed its stockpile of anti-personnel mines within the 2005 deadline as a signatory to the Anti-personnel Mine (APM) Ban Convention.
 
Businessman shot for toll refusal
Muggers shot a businessman in Shyampur for not giving them toll and robbers shot a CNG-run three-wheeler driver at Shahbagh last night.
 
Bhutan's new Saarc secy gen takes charge
New Saarc Secretary General, Chenkyab Dorji of Bhutan, has assumed the office for the next three years, replacing QAMA Rahim of Bangladesh whose tenure has expired.
 
Kibria family begins unique protest today
The family of former finance minister Shah AMS Kibria formally launches a peaceful programme titled 'Shantir Pokkhe Nileema' (blue for peace) today demanding trial of perpetrators of all the grenade and
 
10 injured as bomb goes off at urs
Ten persons including a woman named Halima Begum, 50, were injured in a bomb explosion early Wednesday at an urs mahfil in Parulia Narsinghapur village under Jinardi union of Palash upazila.
 
Hafiz, Anu fired at Ahsanullah
Son tells court
Slain Awami League (AL) lawmaker Ahsanullah Master's son Zahid Ahsan Sohel, a prosecution witness in the murder case told a court yesterday that Kana Hafiz and Anu fired gunshots at the dais where his
 
Tiger kills fisherman
A fisherman was killed on Tuesday as a tiger attacked him while he was fishing in the Sundarbans.
 
BCS (special) results
Results of the 26th BCS (special) under general education cadre were published yesterday.
About 5,463 candidates have initially qualified for viva voce for direct appointment in 1,034 posts.

 
BNP cadres rough up UNO
Some cadres of the ruling BNP's youth front assaulted a Debhata Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) yesterday morning allegedly for saving another officer of the local upazila settlement court who was alsoassaulted
 
FH Hall
HC orders to reinstate word Muslim
The High Court (HC) yesterday ordered the Dhaka University authorities to reinstate the word 'Muslim' with the name of its students' dormitory Fazlul Huq Hall as it was before 1972.
 

 
   
 
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