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PM pledges to root out bomb-terrorism
Regrets failure in detecting bombers in advance; urges opposition to return to JS
Prime Minister Khaleda Zia yesterday pledged to root out the latest syndrome of bomb-terrorism from Bangladesh as she claimed that her government has identified the main schemers of the bombings.
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Hasina vows to keep essentials within commoners' reach
Makes a waft of election pledges
Leader of the Opposition Sheikh Hasina yesterday made 16 pledges including the one to keep the prices of essentials within the commoners' reach.
 
Militants plan blasts to free arrestees
Harkatul threatens to blow up Khulna installations if Hannan not released
Several leaders and activists of banned Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and Jagrata Muslim Janata, Bangladesh (JMJB) are out to collect explosives from frontier areas in a bid to launch bomb attacks
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DU will never allow Shibir politics on campus: VC
Different student organisations of Dhaka University yesterday demanded that politics of Islami Chhatra Shibir be banned at educational institutes across the country, and protested against its movement
 
Little of blame, more of soul searching
For the first time the prime minister yesterday did not blame the opposition for all odd things, rather she admitted failures of her administration in detecting the bombers in advance and the government's
 
Coal Mining, Power Project
Sheer neglect led to Barapukuria disaster
The deadly saturation of gas that led to closure of the corruption-plagued and highly over-priced $250 million Barapukuria coal mining project on Wednesday has been caused by 'sheer negligence' of the
 
Orion grabs 561 acres of forestland
Orion Trading House, a sister concern of Orion Group, has allegedly grabbed 561 acres of forestland in Valuka under Mymensingh district by producing fake documents.
 
Stop lighting malls or face cut-off
Decides govt to tackle power crisis
Power connections to shopping malls will be cut off as an ultimate action if the owners do not stop from illuminating their establishments in the evening, according to one of a number of decisions the
 
Quake toll may go up to 40,000
Survivors angry at slow rescue effort; looting breaks out
Pakistan said yesterday up to 40,000 people were feared dead in the weekend earthquake, as frustration over the slow rescue effort turned to anger and scattered looting.
 
Over 10,000 communal tortures in govt's 4yr
Claims Nirmul Committee's white-paper
More than ten thousand incidents of communal torture took place in the last four years of coalition rule, but police did not properly record even one tenth of them, a white-paper of Ekatturer Ghatak Dalal
 
More areas go under floodwater in north
With the inundation of two more upazilas, overall flood situation in Gaibandha district worsened further while water level of Karotoa river continued at one metre above the danger mark.
 
Money Theft
Two Savar cops closed, OC, SP summoned
On charges of embezzlement of money of a company, two police sub-inspectors (SIs) were suspended and closed to the police headquarters yesterday.
 
Power, Fertiliser Sale
Tata for skipping procurement guidelines
Tata Group yesterday proposed to bypass the existing government procurement guidelines in selling its power and fertiliser to the government.
 
BSF kills 2 on Dinajpur border
Indian Border Security Force (BSF) killed two Bangladeshi nationals and injured another inside Indian territory near Dinajpur on Sunday.
 
Schroeder bows out to make way for Merkel
After seven years as chancellor of Germany, Gerhard Schroeder conceded defeat yesterday to make way for his female rival to become leader, after using every ounce of his political agility to extract key
 
Blasts in Dhaka
2 charge sheets submitted
The first two charge sheets in the Dhaka serial blast cases were submitted yesterday against Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) Ameer Abdur Rahman's younger brother Ataur Rahman and six others.
 
Robber killed in 'crossfire'
A notorious robber of Araihazar upazila in the district was killed in a 'crossfire' during a shootout between the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and a gang of criminals early yesterday.
 
2 share Nobel economics prize for game theory analysis
Robert J. Aumann, an Israeli-US citizen, and American Thomas C. Schelling yesterday won the 2005 Nobel Economics Prize for using game theory to explain conflict resolution, the Nobel jury said.
 

 
   
 
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