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Tengratila Blowouts
Niko to get gas deal skirting compensation
Petrobangla is finally signing the gas purchase and sales agreement (GPSA) on July 31 with Canadian company Niko Resources for supply of gas from the Feni Gas Field, without ensuring compensation forhundreds

Power boss falls from PMO grace for his anti-graft stance
State Minister for Power Anwarul Kabir Talukder, who has taken a strong stance against corruption in the power sector, has become a target of the 'alternative powerhouse' and some senior officials ofthe

News Analysis
BNP out to rope in Ershad for grim grassroots feedback?
The ruling BNP has become desperate to bring Ershad-led Jatiya Party (JP) into the fold of the four-party alliance led by it ahead of the next parliamentary election.

Opposition road march ends today
Several thousand demonstrators braving torrential rain walked over the two-kilometre street from Nayabazar (second Buriganga Bridge) to Muktangon in the capital yesterday, the fifth day of the Awami League

Satellite channels off air over govt order
The city dwellers suddenly found the foreign satellite television channels switched off yesterday as some cable network distributors went on a wildcat strike in Dhaka and Chittagong, protesting a government

Tigers lose series opener
Zimbabwe held their nerve to edge a two-wicket victory over Bangladesh in the opening one-dayer of a five-match series at the Harare Sports Club yesterday.

RMG workers clash at Ashulia: 50 hurt
Cops club warring groups
Clashes between two groups of workers and consequent police action left at least 50 injured in Scandex Private Ltd, a garment factory at Zamgora in Ashulia, yesterday.

First batch of Bangladeshis returns from Lebanon today
At least 139 Bangladeshis will arrive at Zia International Airport today, reported BBC radio in its evening programme yesterday.

President's Health
Doctors advise light work for 4 more weeks
President Iajuddin Ahmed, who resumed his duties on July 6 after a long absence for heart condition, was advised yesterday to continue light work for another four weeks.

Alliance with Ershad
Bhuiyan rules out crisis fear with Jamaat
BNP's Secretary General Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan yesterday, making his party's position clear about welcoming Ershad as an ally to the four-party coalition, said if Jatiya Party (JP) joined their alliance,

Prices of edible oil go up by Tk 6 in a week
Prices of edible oil in the kitchen markets in the capital have increased by Tk 6 per litre in one week.

3 of a family killed as train rams tempo
Three members of a family were killed and two others injured as an express train rammed a tempo on a level crossing at Chhanua Bazar here yesterday.

Rivals slay 4 outlaws
Four members of an underground outfit were slaughtered by their rivals at Tirahati village in Ataikula upazila on Friday night.

BSF abducts 5 Bangladeshi cattle traders
Indian Border Security Force (BSF) abducted five Bangladeshi cattle traders from Challishpara border point in Daulatpur upazila of the district yesterday.

JCD-Shibir clash at Dinajpur Medical College
60 injured
At least 60 activists of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) and Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS) were injured following violent clashes between the two student organisations at Dinajpur Medical College Hospital

Saarc
Programming committee meets today
Saarc Programming Committee comprising senior officials meets in Dhaka today to prepare the ground for the meetings of the Saarc Standing Committee and the Council of Ministers from July 31 to August2.

BNP, AL in 'dirty' race to lure Ershad
Says CPB
Leaders of the Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) yesterday said the "dirty competition" between the BNP and the Awami League to get deposed autocrat HM Ershad into their fold is the naked manifestation

UN appeals for truce
Rice heads back to ME as Israel rejects call, 12 civilians killed in air raids
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice headed back to the Middle East yesterday to find a way to end the bloody conflict in Lebanon as the United Nations appealed for a three-day truce to allow in desperately

4 US Marines killed in Iraqi rebel attack
Blasts rock Baghdad
Four US Marines have been killed in action in Iraq's restive western Anbar province, the US military said yesterday.

UNSC reaches accord on Iran's nuke row
The five permanent members of the UN Security Council reached a deal Friday on a resolution that would give Iran until the end of August to suspend uranium enrichment or face the threat of economic and