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17 more floating bodies recovered
MV Raipura not salvaged as rescue wire snaps again; over 130 still missing; 10 drown in Bhola mishap
Seventeen more bodies were recovered yesterday from the Jamuna river downstream Arichaghat in Manikganj, raising the death toll to 50 in Tuesday's launch tragedy as salvage operation for the vessel was
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Ordeals of 2 Minor Domestic helps
Too feeble to speak out, too young to go home
Two girl children, driven by extreme poverty to work as domestic helps, ended up last week in Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) with bruises all over the body.
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News Analysis
Extra-judicial killings call for unbiased probe
Rights bodies and legal experts have said an executive probe into extra-judicial killings in so-called crossfire, shootouts and encounters is not sufficient and demanded an independent inquiry involving
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Another bout of AL hartal today
HSC exams postponed; 11-party, Oikya Mancha withdraw support
Ignoring requests from different quarters, the main opposition Awami League (AL) is all set to enforce another dawn-to-dusk countrywide hartal today, in protest against the killing of its city unit leader
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Surge in investments may double earning of EPZs
Investment in export processing zones (EPZs) has shot up significantly in the last two years -- mainly in anticipation of the post-MFA context -- creating the prospect of doubling in the next fiscal the
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Citizenship law on the stocks
A process is on to formulate the country's first full-fledged citizenship law, which might be introduced within the next three months.
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Trade talks with China today
Duty-free access to more items likely
More Bangladeshi products, apart from the already agreed ones, are likely to get duty-free access to the Chinese market as a means of offsetting to some extent the over $1 billion trade deficit with China.
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Jamuna launch disaster
Tales of the living and the dead
The air of Habibpur in Charghat upazila is thick with grief as seven youths from this village are missing since the Jamuna launch sinking near Arichaghat in Manikganj on Tuesday.
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US to offer more trade facilities, assures Rice
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said that the US administration will consider extending more trade opportunity and greater economic assistance for Bangladesh, which is seeking duty free access
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No headway yet in Sylhet bomb, grenade attacks
Culprits must be brought to justice: British HC
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police has failed to submit charge-sheets in any of the four bomb and grenade attack cases that took place in the northeast district last year, including
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Rupsha bridge opens to traffic today
Prime Minister (PM) Khaleda Zia inaugurates today the Khanjahan Ali Bridge across the river Rupsha, meeting a long felt need for providing a permanent road link with Khulna-Mongla highway and convenient
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Govt plans to buy 2 more rescue ships
With ferry disasters becoming a common phenomenon that claim hundreds of lives every year, the government plans to buy two high-powered rescue ships, as age-old Rustam and Hamza can no longer lift the
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No clue yet to killers of Khorshed
The family of slain Awami League (AL) leader Khorshed Alam Bachchu loses confidence in police probe, as the investigators have yet to find any clue to the murderers even after four days into the killing.
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One killed, 30 hurt as train, bus collide
One person was killed and 30 others were injured, five of them critically, in a train-bus collision at Patgodam railway crossing, close to Mymensingh Railway Station yesterday.
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