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Hope rekindles for a last-minute dialogue
Repeated pressure from the international community seems to have rekindled the hope of a dialogue between the ruling and the opposition parties over the proposed electoral reforms before the handoverof
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Vigorous Agitation After Sept 18
Opposition plans indefinite hartal, siege and sit-ins
The Awami League (AL) led 14-party opposition combine will go for even tougher programmes including an indefinite hartal, siege and sit-ins in the capital and elsewhere in the country if the alliancegovernment
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Artist Nitun Kundu passes away
Nitun Kundu, a freedom fighter and the famed sculptor of Shabash Bangladesh on the Rajshahi University campus--a tribute to the martyrs of the country's Liberation War, is no more.
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Probe targeted attacks, identify cops: AI
Atrocity during opposition programmes condemned
Condemning the recent 'targeted' police attacks on Awami League (AL) leaders, human rights watchdog Amnesty International asked the government to set up an independent, impartial and competent body to
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RMG workers agitate for Tk 3,000 minimum wage
Different organisations representing garment workers continued their agitation yesterday rejecting the proposed pay structure and urging the workers to be prepared for a tougher movement against severe
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State honour this morning
The government yesterday announced that deceased sculptor and freedom fighter Nitun Kundu will be given state honour at his funeral at the Central Shaheed Minar today at 11:00am.
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Saber goes to UK for better treatment
Doctors of Gleneagles Hospital in Singapore diagnosed damage to the third cranial nerve of Saber Hossain Chowdhury due to trauma in the head, causing him to have double vision, according to family sources.
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EU Team in Satkhira
Hindus say they feel insecure as polls near
Local Hindu leaders yesterday informed the visiting European Union (EU) representatives that they would not cast vote in the next general election as they are being "threatened not to vote".
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Stopping infrastructure lending to Bangladesh
Corruption was one of the reasons, says WB chief
World Bank (WB) President Paul Wolfowitz yesterday said corruption was one of the reasons why the bank has got out of infrastructure lending in Bangladesh.
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Bridge unused for lack of approach roads
The footbridge on river Karotoa at Malatinagar in Bogra town has been lying virtually useless for nearly three years as no approach roads were built on either sides of the bridge.
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Journo stabbed to death
Criminals stabbed a journalist to death at Pichhlapole in Kolaroa upazila of the district on Thursday night.
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Bloodshed Shows no Sign of Abetting
Security forces recover 51 more bodies in Baghdad
More than 100 bullet-riddled corpses have been recovered from the streets of Baghdad over the past three days, officials said yesterday, amid a sharp spike in sectarian violence in Iraq.
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Nam Summit Begins
Musharraf-Manmohan set for terror talks today
The leaders of India and Pakistan will hold talks in Cuba today, hoping to ease tensions after a year of recriminations over terror attacks and Kashmir, Indian and Pakistani officials said.
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Yemen foils suicide attacks on oil plants
Four bombers among five killed
Yemen foiled two suicide attacks on its oil and gas facilities yesterday, days after al-Qaeda urged Muslims to target Western interests, especially oil installations.
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'Iran ready to discuss nuke enrichment suspension'
EU ministers talk Tehran's nuclear ambitions
Iran told the European Union's foreign policy chief Javier Solana last weekend that it is prepared to discuss suspending its uranium enrichment programme, a French foreign ministry spokesman confirmed
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