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Sun also rises despite political heartbreaks
Politicians may have failed again last year, but the private sector has not. With perseverance, innovation and resilience, it has written another inspiring chapter in the just-concluded year.
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Militancy overshadows public security
An alarming escalation of Islamist militancy and suicide bomb blasts was the biggest threat to public security as it overpowered all other kinds of criminal activities, political violence and killings
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Fresh Voter Roll
Listing starts today amidst controversy
Amid countrywide demonstrations by the main opposition Awami League (AL) against the move to prepare a fresh electoral roll, over two lakh enumerators recruited controversially begin today the weeklong
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City welcomes migratory birds
Bird lovers in the city yesterday welcomed varieties of migratory waterfowl through a festival at the Ceramic Lake in Mirpur.
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India goes for dams ignoring eco-disaster
Plans to sell electricity in SE Asia
India strives to emerge as an electricity supplier to the power-hungry Southeast Asia by generating hydroelectricity from scores of dams it is building, including the highly controversial Tipaimukh dam,
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Development Credit
WB wants 2pc cut in supplementary duty
Procurement law, media access to Public Accounts Committee also among 11 conditions for 4th DSC tranche
Government will have to cut the supplementary duties on imports by at least 2 percentage points, besides fulfilling 10 other conditions, to get the fourth tranche of the World Bank's Development Support
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2 JMB men captured with gift bomb
The Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) yesterday arrested two suspected members of the banned Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in the city and seized a powerful bomb from one of them.
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SC Bar accuses CEC of violating constitution
The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) yesterday accused Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Justice MA Aziz of violating the constitution by not taking into confidence the two other election commissioners
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Advance raids on DU halls
75 problem revellers picked up
Police picked up 75 persons, mostly outsiders, during precautionary raids on different dormitories of Dhaka University early yesterday in a bid to prevent violence on the New Year Eve.
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Indonesia blast kills seven
Seven people were killed and dozens injured when a bomb tore through a Christian market stall selling pork in Indonesia's religiously divided province of Central Sulawesi early Saturday, police said.
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Lonely eyes get lonelier
The eyes of 11-year-old Nahin wander restlessly over a stream of visitors to his room, but fail yet again to spot his parents among them.
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Safta comes into effect today
South Asian Free Trade Area (Safta), which paves the way for free trade in goods among the Saarc member states, comes into effect today.
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Process on to grant amnesty to JMB men
Alleges 14-party
Leaders of the Awami League (AL) led 14-party opposition combine yesterday said the process is underway to grant amnesty to the militants in a bid to use them in favour of the BNP-Jamaat coalition inthe
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JMB Khulna boss remanded
Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) second-in-command of Khulna district was placed on a five-day remand yesterday.
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2 'cattle thieves' lynched
An angry mob slaughtered two people at a village in Phulpur upazila Friday midnight suspecting them of cattle theft.
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