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Huge arms haul in Bandarban forest
Cache includes AK47, M16 rifles, 7,000 bullets; 3 Arakan rebels held
Security forces yesterday captured three Arakan rebels and seized a big cache of arms and ammunition, including light machine gun (LMG), AK47 and M16 automatic rifles, from a den in the remote forests
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Progress in Bomb Blast Probes
Govt gives flimsy report to HC
Government is playing hide-and-seek, as it makes public almost nothing of the probe findings into the bomb attacks and keeps the High Court (HC) in the dark about the key features of the progress in investigations
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Fresh Electoral Roll
Hindu areas in Ctg still out of listing
Most of the predominantly religious minority populated areas in the port city have yet to be visited by the enumerators although three days have passed since the start of work for controversial freshelectoral
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BNP fully focused on elections
Kicks off divisional rally series at Ctg on Jan 8
While facing the opposition's oust government movement politically, the ruling BNP is embarking on a series of programmes as part of its year-long preparations for the coming general elections.
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Fresh Voter List
HC orders on writs today
The High Court (HC) is likely to pass its order today on the two writ petitions challenging the validity of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Justice MA Aziz's unilateral decision to prepare a fresh voter
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Tk 18 lakh looted from 13 bookshops
Extortionists ransack computer firm in city, take away Tk 8 lakh
Extortionists yesterday vandalised computer accessories at a private firm office at Paltan and looted around Tk 8 lakh while thieves stole books and cash worth around Tk 18 lakh from 13 bookshops at Banglabazar
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Top two leaders hampering probe
BNP, AL lawmakers trade blame over blast incidence
Lawmakers of the ruling BNP and the main opposition Awami League (AL) at a meeting yesterday blamed each other's leaders for hampering investigations into the blast incidents and drives against the Islamist
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Indian home minister visits Tinbigha
Indian Home Minister Shivraj Patil yesterday visited the Tinbigha corridor in Coochbehar district of West Bengal and crossed over to Panbari check-post in Patgram in Bangladesh where he met senior officials
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PM talks voter list with three ministers
Prime Minister Khaleda Zia yesterday met three of her senior cabinet colleagues to discuss the case in the High Court concerning the voter list and the latest developments in the political arena.
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Agora fined Tk 1 lakh by mobile court
A mobile court yesterday fined Agora chain shop Tk 1 lakh for selling date-expired food items, products without BSTI label, and for barring the court from doing its duty.
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Garos release first-ever album of Mandi songs
Braving unspeakable poverty and lack of government patronage of the indigenous culture, the Garos of Modhupur forest have released the first-ever album of Mandi songs to hand their language, culture
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Blasts rock Nepal after truce ends
UN 'deeply concerned' at Maoist rebel move
A series of explosions rocked Nepal yesterday with one blast erupting in the popular tourist town of Pokhara, just hours after Maoist rebels called off a four-month truce, raising fears of a resurgence
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PM opens textbook distribution
Prime Minister Khaleda Zia yesterday formally inaugurated the distribution of primary and ebtedayee levels textbooks and the marketing of secondary level textbooks for 2006 academic session that has just
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14-party defers Dhaka long march to Feb 5
The 'Dhaka long march' sponsored by the Awami League-led 14-party opposition combine as part of their oust-government movement has been deferred to February 5 from January 22 in view of Biswa Ijtema.
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Govt hiding info about bombers to protect Jamaat
Alleges IOJ
The Islami Oikya Jote (IOJ) yesterday alleged the government is hiding information about the arrested Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) bombers to protect Jamaat-e-Islami even after the arresteesclaimed
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Snatching Case
2 cops, their informers jailed
A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced two policemen and their two informers to four years' rigorous imprisonment (RI) for snatching ornaments and cash from two jewellery employees on July 20 last year.
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Four bombs blasted in Kushtia
Unknown men exploded four bombs at separate spots in the city within 10 minutes' time yesterday evening, but no one was reported injured.
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Sunny supplied explosives for N'ganj blasts
JMB man tells court
A member of Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) suicide squad yesterday told a court their military commander Ataur Rahman Sunny supplied 10 kilograms of ammonia nitrate for explosion in Narayanganj
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