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No solution to crisis as deadline nears
CA to meet advisory council Monday
The country is veering towards a deep uncertainty again as President Iajuddin Ahmed has yet to find a solution to the current political crisis while the third deadline for meeting the 11-point demandof
 
CA pushing country to confrontation
14-party says
The 14-party alliance yesterday alleged that President and Chief Adviser Iajuddin Ahmed is pushing the country towards confrontation and uncertainty by keeping the advisers in the dark and turning the
 
Commentary
Chief Adviser's inexplicable behaviour
Four days' delay is difficult to accept
When the country is facing such an uncertain future, when every citizen is worried about the political conflict that more and more threatens to disrupt everyone's personal and professional life, whenevery
 
Hasina warns of ‘all out movement’ anytime
Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina yesterday warned that an all out movement including resumption of the suspended countrywide indefinite blockade might be launched anytime today or tomorrow since,
 
Renegade Barrister Zia says BNP loyalists tried to kidnap him
Former lawmaker Barrister Ziaur Rahman Khan has alleged that BNP loyalists led by former state minister for education Ehsanul Haq Milon attempted to kidnap him from his Dhanmondi residence in the capital
 
Manpower
Ex-state minister-agents tussle affects export
Persisting tussle between the state minister for expatriates welfare and overseas employment in the immediate past government and the president of Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies
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Family toils to bring hog-deer from brink
The hog-deer has probably been saved from extinction from the country's wildlife as an animal-loving family in the district has increased its number from just a pair to six over the last eight years.
 
31 women held at ZIA on way to Libya with fake papers
Immigration police yesterday morning held 31 women at Zia International Airport (ZIA) when they were preparing to board a Libya-bound plane with fake work permits and detained four officials of expatriates
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150-yr-old building goes down for high-rise
Jagannath University authorities have arbitrarily started demolishing a monumental building along with an ancient garden to make room for a high-rise building.
 
EU parliament asks CG to reconstitute EC
The European Parliament has urged the caretaker government of Bangladesh to take immediate steps to reconstitute the Election Commission so that it can perform and can be seen to perform its work in a
 
Press owners won't print faulty voters' list
Printing press owners have decided not to print the faulty voter list, which the Election Commission (EC) has prepared, alleging that the controversial Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) MA Aziz has hatched
 
Nagorik Committee to meet CA tomorrow
A six-member team of Nagorik Committee will meet President-cum-Chief Adviser to the Caretaker Government Iajuddin Ahmed on Sunday.
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Make up classes...


 
One dies in 'robbery' in capital
One person died and three of a family were critically injured in a robbery incident in the capital's Badda area in the early hours of yesterday.
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During daytime...


 
Ctg port in full swing operation
Activities in the Chittagong port were in full swing at the weekend yesterday after being suspended for five long days due mainly to the countrywide blockade enforced by the Awami League-led 14-partycombine.
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Food arrives in trucks to Aziz after traders' boycott threat
A group of traders and farmers yesterday carried essential commodities in three trucks and supplied them to the Kakrail residence of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Justice MA Aziz.
 
Rab recovers arms from ex-BIWTC chairman's house
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) on Thursday night recovered firearms and ammunition from the residence of former BIWTC chairman Shamsur Rahman Shimul Biswas in Pabna, and arrested his stepbrother for possessing
 
Ctg OC shifted after attack on 14-party
Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Doublemooring Police Station Miah Kutubur Rahman was stand released on Thursday night and transferred to city Special Branch (SB).
 
BSF kills 1 in Satkhira
Indian Border Security Force (BSF) gunned down a Bangladeshi cattle trader at Tarali under Swarupnagar Police Station of 24 Parganas district on Thursday night.
 
Shop owner killed in Dhaka
A group of assailants killed a shop owner in the capital's Jatrabari area yesterday.
 
Five held in murder case
Detective and Criminal Intelligence branch of police, formerly known as Detective Branch, arrested five people accused in Awami Swechchhasebak League leader Haji Manir Uddin Manu murder case from Pirerbagh
 
Boy hurt as bomb goes off
A boy was wounded when a bomb exploded at the city's Jatrabari area yesterday noon.
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Admission test...


 
India observing situation, acting envoy tells Hasina
India would like to see the people of Bangladesh to constitute the next parliament through peaceful, stable and democratic elections, Acting Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Sarvajit Chakraborty
 
Vietnam Lesson
US must stay patient in Iraq, says Bush
US President George W Bush, making his first visit to Vietnam, said yesterday that one lesson of the bloody US military defeat here a generation ago was that the United States must be patient in Iraq.
 
Austrian, four US guards in Iraq kidnapped
2 gunmen, GI killed in fighting
British ground forces and US military helicopters fought with gunmen yesterday in southern Iraq where four American security contractors and their Austrian co-worker were abducted in a convoy hijacking.
 
Robot, heal thyself -- welcome to future
It's an achievement that inspires notions of robots with consciousness and independent minds.
 
Darfur conflict spreads as Annan announces deal
The Darfur conflict escalated into neighboring countries on Friday even as Sudan for the first time accepted the principle of allowing U.N. troops to help end one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.
 

 
   
 
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