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Camps weigh next talks strategy
4-party won't budge on caretaker chief
The ruling four-party alliance at a meeting yesterday reiterated that it will stand its ground on the issue of Justice KM Hasan taking the helm of the next caretaker government.
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Camps weigh next talks strategy
AL firm on settling Hasan issue first
The main opposition Awami League (AL) will not move to the other topics at the ongoing dialogue with the BNP before settling the issue of Justice KM Hasan's taking over as the chief of the caretaker government.
 
2nd Meghnaghat Project
Favoured Orion fails to sign deal for fund crisis
The BNP-led four-party alliance government's failure in power sector takes yet another blow as its' favourite business house Orion failed to show up at the signing of the Land Lease Agreement (LLA) to
 
Nothing impossible in Biman purchase
From banana to spare parts, everything is bought at higher prices
One dozen of banana may cost Tk 40 in local markets, but if it is bought for Biman, the price is shown Tk 140. Spare parts were bought for two ATP aircraft when they were grounded for sale.
 
Extortionists shoot Rab man, 2 others
Extortionists shot three people including a Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) member in the city's Mohammadpur area yesterday.
 
Tigers fight in defeat
Bangladesh's ICC Champions Trophy campaign got off on the wrong foot here on Saturday when a thoroughly professional former world champions Sri Lanka handed the Tigers a convincing 37-run defeat.
 
Recruitment in RU postponed amid employees' agitation
Mayor's house ransacked
The Rajshahi University (RU) authorities yesterday postponed the recruitment process of 200 more teachers and staff in the university amid agitation by the 546 employees, who were appointed violatinguniversity
 
Assault of Workers
RMG workers vandalise 3 factories
Agitated garment workers yesterday vandalised three factories belonging to Alana Group and damaged at least 15 vehicles at Pallabi in the capital.
 
Hasina criticises Daily Star Prothom Alo editors
Leader of the Opposition Sheikh Hasina yesterday launched a broadside against the editors of Prothom Alo and The Daily Star.
 
2 RMG workers killed in bus plunge in Savar
Two garment workers were killed and 32 others, mostly female workers, were injured as a bus carrying workers of a garment factory plunged into a ditch at Palashbari on Nabinagar-Kaliakoir highway at Ashulia
 
PM asks people to take 'right decision' in next polls
Prime Minister Khaleda Zia has urged people to vote for the BNP-led alliance candidates in the upcoming general elections to maintain continuity of development, peace and democracy.
 
Hasina reiterates her must reforms
Opposition leader Sheikh Hasina has demanded a nonpartisan chief of the caretaker government, transparent ballot boxes and electoral rolls with photos of the voters to ensure credible parliamentary polls
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At the fag end...


 
Eminent citizens hail AL-BNP dialogue
Twenty-eight eminent personalities of the country yesterday hailed the kicking off of the much-awaited dialogue between the main opposition Awami League (AL) and the ruling BNP.
 
Power output Hits 7-year low
The country's power generation hit a seven year low yesterday, leaving many consumers without power for much of the day in hot and humid weather.
 
102 more arms licences void in Barisal
Barisal district administration cancelled firearms licences of 102 people in the fourth phase of such step during the present government.
 
Shots fired along tense Korean border
Gunfire rang out yesterday along the heavily armed no man's land separating the divided Koreas, as regional tensions mounted in anticipation of communist North Korea's plan to test its first atomic bomb.
 
Thousands wrongly put on US terror watch lists
Thousands of people have been mistakenly linked to names on terror watch lists when they crossed the border, boarded commercial airliners or were stopped for traffic violations, a government report said
 
Indonesia smoke blankets region
Large parts of Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore have been hit by smog from illegal bush fires burning on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo.
 

 
   
 
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