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Crimes rise as gangland swings back into action
Top criminals coming out of their hideouts in India to organise networks; intelligence fears law and order to get worse
Law and order has sharply deteriorated over the last few months in the capital and elsewhere, and the trend is continuing despite instructions from State Minister for Home Affairs Lutfozzaman Babar to
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Right to information left in the cold
Law minister claims draft law sent to information, but information minister not aware of it
The proposed right to information act, an essential and practical anti-corruption measure, has been kept on ice since 2002 while Bangladesh ranked the most corrupt country for the last five consecutive
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Agargaon Voter List
EC busy on weekend to retrieve 899 forms
The Election Commission (EC) Secretariat officials were busy even on the weekend yesterday trying to retrieve the controversial 899 voters' registration forms.
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Industrial wastes defile Savar environs
Toxic trash of 300 plants spread due to lack of sewerage facilities
Around 300 industries set up in and around 20 square kilometre areas around Dhaka Export Processing Zone (DEPZ) in Savar are causing serious environmental hazards due to lack of sewerage and drainagefacilities.
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Maritime Boundary, Rohingya
Dhaka, Yangon agree to resolve issues amicably
Bangladesh and Myanmar yesterday agreed to amicably resolve the outstanding issues as the foreign secretaries of the two countries discussed maritime boundary, Rohingya repatriation, border security and
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Safe water scarce in hill districts
Junk tube-wells force people to use raw stream water
It was late in the afternoon when Mrinalini Chakma, a middle-aged indigenous lady of Meghla in Sadar upazila, had just fetched a pot of water from a stream more than one kilometre off her house.
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Phulbari Coal Mine
Final nod to project faces further delay
Phulbari coal mine development by British company Asia Energy will be delayed by about a year as a government expert committee has failed to submit its report despite repeated extension of deadline.
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'Terror Financing'
2 RIHS staff ejected from country
Two of its subsidiaries shut down
The top suspected donor to Islamist militants in the country, Bangladesh chapter of Kuwait based NGO Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (RIHS), sent back two of its foreign officials to the headquarters
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Submarine cable landing station opens tomorrow
Access comes 1 month later as Cox's Bazar-Ctg link incomplete
Cox's Bazar, the resort town that boasts of the world's longest sea beach, is all set to connect the country with the global information superhighway with a high-speed international telecom link.
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144 imposed after Ahmadiyya area renamed
Local administration imposed section 144 in the district town yesterday amid high tension between the Ahmadiyya and Sunni communities over renaming of an area.
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Double murder in Shyampur
Two people, one of them a re-rolling mill worker, were shot dead near Dhaka Match Factory in the city's Shyampur area last night in what seemed to be a desperate terrorist act.
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6 killed in lightning
Six people were killed and 12 others injured by lightning in Dinajpur and Thakurgaon districts yesterday.
In Dinajpur, lightning killed four people and injured 12 others in four upazilas of the district.
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Legal experts accuse EC of committing crime
Country's legal experts yesterday accused the members of the Election Commission (EC), including Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Justice MA Aziz, of committing criminal offences by making "false" voter
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One killed in 'encounter' with cops
A leader of Panna Bahini, the Padma char-based gang in Rajshahi, was killed in an encounter with police and his accomplices at Bangali Char in Bagha upazila early yesterday.
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Heroin Smuggling
Banking info of 12 companies under probe
The CID-led five-member team investigating heroin smuggling to the UK started scrutinising banking information of 12 business houses, including BD Foods Limited and its nine sister concerns, on Thursday
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EU to slap terror tag on LTTE
The European Union has agreed in principle to blacklist Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels as a "terrorist" group, EU diplomats said yesterday, in a move the rebels said would only lead to war in the country.
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Electoral Reform
Opposition's campaign in north starts today
Awami League-led 14-party combine begins a three-day mass campaign in the northern districts today to garner support for their demands for electoral reforms, cancellation of "fake" voter list and uninterrupted
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3 Neptune-size planets found
Astronomers reported they had found three enticing Neptune-sized planets orbiting a distant star, in a discovery that marks a further step towards the goal of finding another Earth.
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3 killed by outlaws
Criminals allegedly belonging to an outlawed party killed three people in three different incidents in Meherpur and Rajbari on Thursday night.
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