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Turkey to consider duty-free access for Bangladeshi goods
Says foreign secretary
Turkey will consider duty-free access for Bangladesh products to its market and has agreed to enhance trading and economic cooperation between the countries, Foreign Secretary Hemayet-uddin said yesterday.
 
Force govt to accept reforms: Hasina
Leader of the Opposition in Parliament and Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina yesterday alleged that the BNP-Jamaat-led coalition government will not implement the opposition's reform proposals
 
Poor get only 3pc of govt health services
Speakers tell discussion
Accountability will have to be ensured in private and public healthcare centres so that the poor people can get proper health services there, said the speakers at a discussion yesterday.
 
Reforms in political parties stressed
Good governance demands political party reforms in terms of structural, behavioural and values changes, and accountability to the people, said speakers at a seminar yesterday.
 
BSF kills 3 in 2 days
Indian Border Security Force (BSF) gunned down three Bangladeshi citizens at Baghadanga border point in Chuadanga and Wahedpur in Chapainawabganj in the last two days.
 
Torture by Police
Shanta submits naraji petition
Shahin Sultana Shanta, victim of police brutality during a protest programme by the 14-party opposition alliance on March 12, yesterday filed a naraji (no-confidence) petition against the opinion
 
Hartal in Rajshahi tomorrow
Rajshahi Gas Andolon Parishad will now observe dawn-to-dusk hartal tomorrow instead of today.
 
Minority Repression
Writ petition filed in HC against govt
A writ petition was filed yesterday in the High Court over the failure of the authorities concerned in taking proper action against those who had tortured the religious minorities after the 2001 general
 
12 get life for killing schoolboy
Twelve people were awarded life term imprisonment for killing a schoolboy of Morgram village in Sirajganj Sadar upazila.
 
Four bodies recovered
Police recovered four bodies in the city yesterday.
Lovely Rahman, 24, was found dead at a residential hotel at Jailkhana Road under Kotwali Police Station.

 
Jamaat, Shibir sue Inqilab editor, reporters
Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir filed two separate defamation cases yesterday against the editor and three reporters of the daily Inqilab for what they said was running false
 
Training centre for English medium schoolteachers launched in city
With a view to meeting growing demands of quality teachers for the English medium schools, a training centre was launched in the city yesterday.
 
'Homeopathy can cure arsenicosis'
Homeopathic treatment can cure patients affected by arsenic, claimed a homeopath of Jhenidah yesterday.
 
DU Fisheries Deptt
Stalemate over teacher's removal continues
Stalemate at fisheries department of Dhaka University (DU) over the demand for removal of a teacher continued yesterday.
 
Butenis to work hard to improve US-Bangladesh relations
The new US Ambassador to Bangladesh Patricia A Butenis yesterday said she will work hard to further improve the Dhaka-Washington relations. "I am very delighted to be in Bangladesh.
 
EC delegation chief visits Drik library
Dr Stefan Frowein, head of the delegation of European Commission in Dhaka, visited Drik Picture Library and Pathshala and South Asian Institute of Photography, educational wing of Drik.
 
Geological Survey
Affected people demand compensation
The people of Saestabad and Charmonai unions here staged sit-in and observed token hunger strike demanding compensation from Unocal for losses due to explosions during the geological survey in the area.
 
Training course on PR from Apr 23
Bangladesh Institute of Communication Studies and Public Relations (BICSPR) will hold a two-week training course titled "Public Relations and Modern Techniques of Public Relations" beginning April 23,
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11 honoured
Ayojan, a cultural organisation, has given Honourary Awards 2006 to eleven personalities for outstanding contribution in their respective fields, says a press release.
 
1,169 more held
Police arrested 1,169 people on various charges from different parts of the country in the last 24 hours ending at 6:00am yesterday.
 

 
   
 
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