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'Implement tripartite MoU for peace in RMG sector'
Participants at a roundtable yesterday urged the government and owners of garment factories to implement immediately the tripartite memorandum of understanding (MoU) to restore peaceful atmosphere ingarment

'Adopt protocol for smooth return of non-intruders to home country'
Thirteen fishermen, who returned home from India on Friday nine months after their trawler sank in the Bay of Bengal, have urged the Saarc countries to adopt a protocol to ensure that the non-intruders

Budgetary allocation for haor areas demanded
Environmentalists yesterday demanded special budgetary allocation for the development of haors (water bodies) and establishment of fish sanctuaries in order to protect biodiversity.

Formulate National Adolescent Policy for their comprehensive development
Speakers tell seminar
Speakers at a seminar yesterday stressed the need for formulating 'National Adolescent Policy' for comprehensive adolescent development covering 23 per cent of the total population in the country.

Fourth Death Anniversary Today
'Publish writings of Neelima Ibrahim'
Speakers at a discussion yesterday underscored the need for compiling all the writings of Dr Neelima Ibrahim, late founding president of Bangladesh Mahila Samity, to spread her ideology among people.

Make best use of knowledge, talents for welfare of country
Speakers tell students at graduation ceremony of Chittagong Grammar School
The annual graduation ceremony of Chittagong Grammar School (CGS), a leading English medium school in the port city, was held yesterday amid festivity and enthusiasm.

Tax cut on two-stroke 3-wheelers protested
Citizens' Rights Movement (CRM), an initiative to save environment yesterday protested reduction of tax in importing two-stroke three wheelers.

Robbers loot money, valuables worth Tk 8 lakh in Sunamganj
Armed robbers looted money and valuables worth about Tk 8 lakh from a house at a remote village in Sunamganj district early yesterday.

Community pry teachers begin fast-unto-death today
Wearing shrouds, the community primary schoolteachers will begin fast-unto-death at the Central Shaheed Minar in the city today to press their five-point demand, including removal of salary discrimination,

Nat'l Fan workers agitate for permanent jobs
Several hundred workers of National Fan agitated at the main entrance of the factory in Bscic industrial area at Tongi yesterday morning demanding that their jobs be made permanent.

Two children killed in road accidents
At least two children were killed in separate road accidents in Gaibandha and Narsingdi yesterday.

Train derails in Gazipur
Rail communications on Dhaka-Mymensingh route remained snapped yesterday after two carriages of a Mymensingh-bound goods train from Kamlapur derailed at 5:00pm near Sreepuer Station at Gazipur.

Publication of 'Khagrachhari 2001-05' slated
Parbatya Chattagram Janasanghati Samity (PCJS) yesterday protested the publication of a booklet titled 'Khagrachhari 2001-2005' in which the deputy commissioner (DC) of Khagrachhari termed the Jumma people

Qulkhwani of Khurshid Jahan held
Qulkhwani of Women and Children Affairs Minister Khurshid Jahan Huq was held at her Banani residence after Maghrib prayers yesterday for salvation of her departed soul.

Brac University Club Fair held
Brac University (BU) yesterday held Club Fair Summer 2006 in its indoor games room, says a press release.

'Take stern action against plagiarists, book pirates'
Puthipatra, a publishing company, yesterday urged the government to take stern action against plagiarists and book-pirates to ensure quality education in the country.

Power-sharing deal in Nepal widely welcomed
A landmark deal between Nepal's authorities and Maoist rebels which will see parliament dissolved and power shared in a new interim government was hailed in the troubled Himalayan kingdom Saturday.

Bodies of detainees repatriated to S Arabia, Yemen
Bodies of three detainees who committed suicide at detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba have been repatriated to Saudi Arabia and Yemen, the Pentagon said Friday.