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Driving downpour deluges Dhaka
Rainfall of 103 millimetres in six hours paralysed the capital yesterday with the city's streets turned into virtual canals and passengers abandoning stranded vehicles to struggle through knee high waters
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EC test case launched amid rain, enthusiasm
1,288 enrolled as voters on first day in Sripur
The Election Commission's (EC) pilot project to gather field level experience of preparing simultaneously a voter list with photographs and national identity cards began in Sreepur municipality of Gazipur
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Falu remanded for first time
Quader, Lobi sent to jail
Detained former BNP lawmaker Mosaddak Ali Falu was for the first time placed on a three-day remand in a criminal case while Chief Conservator of Forests Osman Gani taken on a three-day fresh remand.
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2nd List of Graft Suspects
Tarique, uncle Shamim submit wealth reports
8 others seek time as ACC deadline expires
Six more top corruption suspects including former prime minister Khaleda Zia's detained son Tarique Rahman and her brother Shamim Eskandar submitted their wealth statements to the Anti-corruption Commission
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Call for global efforts to fix minimum wage
Roundtable discusses problems of Bangladeshi workers abroad
Adviser for foreign and expatriates welfare ministries Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury has proposed a global collective effort to set minimum wages for migrant workers at different levels of skill and experience.
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Chandpur Power Project
Blacklisted Harbin set to get deal
Power Development Board (PDB) is set to sign a deal with controversial and blacklisted Chinese company Harbin Power Engineering (HPE) on June 12 for setting up 150 megawatt Chandpur Power Project Phase-1.
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Reforms, polls within next year: Mainul
Law and Information Adviser Mainul Hosein firmly believes that reform of the political parties would be completed and general election held within next year.
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Mayor Minu flees on bail
Rajshahi Mayor and ex-BNP lawmaker Mizanur Rahman Minu went into hiding soon after a district and sessions judge had freed him on bail yesterday afternoon.
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Prof Yunus slams G8 over climate
Prof Muhammad Yunus has vented his disappointments over the failure of the rich nations of G8 to deal with trade issue effectively and reach a firm decision on climate change, which affects Bangladesh
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Govt to make getting passport easier
17 more regional offices to be set up
The home ministry yesterday decided to recruit passport agents and set up 17 more regional offices to make passport issuance and renewal process easier.
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AL monitoring voter listing scheme closely
Says Hasina
Awami League President Sheikh Hasina yesterday said her party is closely monitoring the process of preparing national identity card plus voter list with photographs.
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IGP talks tough against corrupt policemen
Inspector General of Police (IGP) Noor Mohammad yesterday sought cooperation from the people in developing good policing and urged them to be watchful of police activities.
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Journalist Zahirul Haq no more
Noted journalist and former director general of external publicity of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Zahirul Haq died of heart attack in Dhaka yesterday. He was 62.
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4 of a bridal party killed in bus crash
Four people of a bridal party, including the groom, were killed on the spot when the microbus carrying them collided head-on with a speeding truck on Dhaka-Chittagong Highway at Sonapahar area under Mirsarai
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NGO worker abducted for ransom
A gang of criminals has demanded a Tk1 lakh ransom for the release of an NGO worker they had abducted early yesterday from Kulbaria village of Gangni upazila in Meherpur.
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Nadal tramples on Federer's dream
Rafael Nadal destroyed Roger Federer's historic Grand Slam dream for another year by capturing his third successive French Open on Sunday.
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Karzai escapes Taliban rocket attack
47 Taliban militants, 2 cops killed in fighting, air raids
Taliban militants fired up to six rockets near a gathering where President Hamid Karzai was giving a speech yesterday in central Afghanistan, but no one was hurt, officials said.
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Truck bomber kills 9 Iraqi policemen
A suicide bomber killed nine Iraqi policemen and wounded dozens more yesterday as he exploded his truck outside a police post near the northern hometown of executed dictator Saddam Hussein.
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