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Metropolitan
 
Form Food, Drug, Cosmetics Authority to protect consumers' rights
Experts urge govt
Experts at a workshop yesterday proposed that the government form an autonomous 'Food, Drug and Cosmetics Authority' (FDCA) to protect consumers' right.
 
Road accidents kill five
At least five people were killed in separate road accidents in Bogra, Mymensingh, Brahmanbaria and Khulna yesterday.
 
339 Receive Termination Letters
Situation tense in industrial belt
Situation in Khulna-Jessore industrial belt is likely to turn violent as 94 workers of state-owned Aleem Jute mills and 245 of Eastern Jute mills received their termination notices on Saturday night.
 
Factory gutted in city
Raw materials and machineries of a factory were gutted at Shyampur industrial area in the city yesterday noon.
 
Protect arable land, water bodies
Speakers tell seminar
Bangladesh should protect its arable land and water bodies from the adverse affect of globalisation, said Justice Ghulam Rabbani at a seminar yesterday.
 
ADP achievable
Says former BB chief
Former governor of Bangladesh Bank (BB) M Farashuddin Ahmed yesterday said although ambitious, the ADP (annual development programme) is achievable.
 
Death of journo Zahirul condoled
Different organisations and political leaders condoled the death of eminent journalistDifferent organisations and political leaders condoled the death of eminent journalist Zahirul Haq, former president
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Rain Paralyses City Life


 
Hotelier shot dead
A hotelier was killed while another person suffered critical injuries as unidentified criminals sprayed bullets on them in Maghbazar in the rainy evening of yesterday.
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CA plants saplings
Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed planted two saplings on the premises of the Chief Adviser's Office and his 30 Hare Road official residence yesterday under the ongoing National Tree- planting Movement 2007.
 
Armed police beat Nigerian IUT student
A group of 10-12 foreign students of Islamic University of Technology (IUT) yesterday put up a barricade on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway at Board Bazar in Gazipur for an hour demanding immediate action against
 
Geeteara Safiya leaves for Uganda
Women and Children Affairs, Social Welfare, Jute and Textiles and Industries Adviser Geeteara Safiya Chowdhury left Dhaka on Saturday night for Uganda to attend the four-day 8th Commonwealth Women's Affairs
 
Int'l Turkish Olympiad
Turkish Hope School team returns home
A team of International Turkish Hope School (ITHS) returned home on Saturday after participating in the 5th International Turkish Olympiad, says a press release.
 
Chinese envoy meets Ershad
The newly appointed Chinese Ambassador in Dhaka, Zheng Qing Bian, made a courtesy call on Jatiya Party Chairman and former President HM Ershad at his Baridhara residence yesterday.
 
Charges to be framed against Wadud Bhuiyan on June 13
A court here yesterday took into cognizance a charge sheet against Abdul Wadud Bhuiyan, a former BNP lawmaker from Khagrachhari, and fixed June 13 for framing charges in presence of the accused.
 
'Strategic transport plan not pro-people, cost effective'
Urban transport experts yesterday at a seminar said the recommendations made in "Dhaka Strategic Transport Plan" (STP) will not benefit common people because they are not cost effective.
 
Inadequate fund hampers DU research works
The research centres of Dhaka University (DU) have been unable to take up any major work because of insufficient budget. The 25 centres had a total budget of only Tk 147.
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Separate gender identification for hermaphrodites demanded
Speakers at a discussion yesterday demanded separate gender identification for hermaphrodites to ensure their proper recognition in the society.
 
Be vocal against any wrongdoing of police
IGP urges people
Inspector General of Police (IGP) Noor Mohammad yesterday sought cooperation of common people in developing good policing and called upon them to keep vigil on police activities.
 
SB police quashes UAE visa rumour
Special Branch (SB) Police yesterday asked the people concerned not to be confused over a news item in a newspaper that said the photocopy visa that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) sends for the Bangladeshis
 
Attack on UK Envoy
Hearing of charge sheet on June 26
Hearing of the charge sheet in the case of grenade attack on British High Commissioner Anwar Choudhury will be held on June 26, court sources said yesterday.
 
Fawzul Kabir Khan appointed power secretary
M Fawzul Kabir Khan has been appointed secretary to the power ministry on president's quota for two years.
 
Habib gets Chand Sultana Literacy Prize
M Habibur Rahman, director, Education Sector, Save the Children USA, has won Chand Sultana Literacy Prize 2006 for his contribution in developing non-formal education in Bangladesh, says a press release.
 

 
   
 
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