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Caretaker Govt Steps into Fifth Month Today
Demands for allowing indoor politics, specific poll date growing
Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed's caretaker government steps into its fifth month today amidst growing demands for lifting ban on indoor politics and a clearer timeframe for general elections.
 
Khaleda asks leaders not to create confusion
Hannan Shah says quoting BNP chairperson while Khoka refutes charges
Brig Gen (retd) Hannan Shah, an adviser to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, yesterday said the party chief had asked party leaders not to give any speech which might give rise to confusions in the party.
 
Shibir's secret training of DU students
A group of 13 Dhaka University (DU) students were awakened at dead of night on May 4 in a shabby two-storey building near the Kantaban slope in the capital to swear their allegiance to militant Islamist
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Dismantling of illegal billboards begins
The Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) has taken an initiative to remove all illegal billboards especially those on top of buildings and the ones that are hazardous to city dwellers.
 
Crucial second ODI today
Tigers' pace spearhead Mashrafe Bin Mortaza is expected to play in the all-important second one-day international against visiting India at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium today.
 
AL demands election schedule
Awami League (AL) yesterday demanded that the caretaker government hold election as early as possible to hand over power to an elected government.
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Dumped for Years Under Open Sky
Evidential materials worth crores of taka decaying
Evidential materials worth crores of taka seized by police in connection with various cases and kept under supervision of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's (CMM) Court, Dhaka, are getting damaged causing
 
Tasneem freed
The Daily Star staff, Tasneem Khalil, picked up by the joint forces early yesterday from his residence in the city for questioning, was freed around 11 last night.
 
Khaleda attends dinner hosted by Reaz Rahman
BNP Chairperson and former prime minister Khaleda Zia yesterday had dinner with former US Congressman Gregory Laughlin at the Basundhara residence of former foreign affairs adviser Reaz Rahman.
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Risky life...


 
Bhabadaha Waterlogging
Locals must actively help resolve problem
Seminar in city told
Active and effective participation of the locals of Bhabadaha area in Jessore is must for the implementation of any project to solve the area's persistent water-logging problem, speakers at a seminarsaid
 
4,500 domestic fowls culled in Jaldhaka
More than 4,500 four thousand five hundred domestic fowls were killed and buried from all of the 454 households of West Gulmonda Master Para village in Jaldhaka upazila on Thursday night and yesterday.
 
Another extortion case against Ilyas Ali
Another extortion case was filed against former lawmaker and Sylhet district BNP chief M Ilyas Ali and five others with Sylhet Kotwali Police Station yesterday.
 
US congressmen for fair, early election in Bangladesh
US congressmen have expressed their desire to see a free and fair election in Bangladesh at the earliest possible time.
 
Rental power project in Bogra may be retained
The Power Division is going to request the government's purchase committee to revoke its decision on cancellation of a 20 megawatt rental power project in Bogra to avert possible hassles of litigation.
 
'Criminal' killed in encounter with Rab
A listed criminal was killed in an encounter with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Raozan upazila of the district early yesterday. The dead was identified as Wahid Murad, 28.
 
Bombs recovered in Satkhira
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) on Thursday evening recovered eight live bombs, bomb making powder and four bullets from a house at Ellarchar in Sadar upazila.
 
Brown vows to learn from Iraq mistakes
Blair endorses Brown as his successor
Gordon Brown launched his campaign to become Britain's next prime minister yesterday, pledging to learn from the mistakes of the Iraq war while honouring "our obligations to the Iraqi people.
 
Mayawati's party back to power in UP
The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), led by school teacher-turned-politician Mayawati, yesterday back to power in India's most populous and politically key state of Uttar Pradesh virtually on its own as Samajwadi
 
Pakistan arrests scores ahead of pro-judge rally
Pakistani authorities rounded up scores of opposition activists and deployed 15,000 police and paramilitary troops Friday ahead of a rally led by the country's suspended top judge, officials said.
 
NPT conference urges Iran to stop enriching uranium
A conference on fixing the 189-nation nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) urged Iran to comply with UN calls to stop enriching uranium, in a summary of the two-week meeting ending yesterday.
 
4 more US soldiers killed in Iraq
Four more US soldiers have been killed in Iraq, the military announced yesterday, as an increased pace in combat operations kept the average rate of American deaths at three per day so far this month.
 

 
   
 
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