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Hasina has to quit for young leadership
She thinks no 60-plus leader should remain in presidium, working committee; she will be 60 in Sept
Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina will have to quit the post of party chief as she yesterday made a dramatic proposal for allowing young leaders to lead the party.
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Rupali buyer silent, handover uncertain
No payment, no communication from Prince Bandar
Stagnancy has gripped the state-owned Ruplai Bank as its prospective buyer, a Saudi prince, apparently stopped communication with the government creating uncertainty about the bank's handing over.
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Worn out, they see no light at end of tunnel
Draft police ordinance holds little relief for low-ranked cops
The clock struck 2:00am declaring to the police constable guarding the entrance of a private office at Karwan Bazar in the capital a few days ago that he had been on duty there for 18 hours at a stretch.
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Remembering the genocide
The dead bodies were thrown into an underground water tank of a pump house and the killers thought they could sink into oblivion all evidence of the genocide, but almost after three decades an excavation
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Falu remanded again in relief embezzlement case
Barisal mayor sued for possessing ammo
Detained former BNP lawmaker Mosaddak Ali Falu was placed on a four-day fresh remand yesterday in a criminal case while Gulshan police filed a case against Barisal City Corporation Mayor Mujibor Rahman
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Illegal Hill Cutting
DoE officials defy mobile court order for filing case
The officials of the Department of Environment (DoE) in Chittagong on Monday allegedly dilly-dallied for hours to file a case, defying a mobile court's orders against an influential business group inconnection
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Credible polls by end-2008
CA reiterates
Chief Adviser (CA) Fakhruddin Ahmed yesterday said the present caretaker government is constitutional and accountable to the people and is moving towards holding a free, fair and credible election bythe
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Prof Taher Murder
Charges framed against Salehi, Prof Mohiuddin
A Rajshahi court framed charges against six people including Rajshahi University (RU) teacher Mia Mohammad Mohiuddin and RU Islami Chhatra Shibir President Mahbubul Alam Salehi in the Prof S Taher Ahmed
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BDR starts selling vegetables in city
Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) starts marketing fresh vegetables in the city today through its 20 open markets as part of the ongoing efforts to stabilise the soaring prices of essentials.
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GP unlikely to go public this year
GrameenPhone (GP) is unlikely to float shares in the securities market this year and the earliest to do so would be the next year, said GP Chief Executive Officer Erik Aas in Singapore, reports Bloomberg.
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3 JMB men held in Satkhira
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested three cadres of outlawed Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in Satkhira Sadar upazila on Monday night.
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K Mosharraf's wife owns house in Kent
Detained former health minister Khandakar Mosharraf Hossain yesterday submitted his wealth statement to the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), saying that he owns immovable property worth about Tk 67.
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Chief engineer at security printing held over bribe
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) yesterday arrested Chief Engineer of Security Printing Corporation (Bangladesh) Ltd (SPCBL) Anwar Hossain when he was coming out of a private firm with bribed money at Baridhara
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4 killed as train rams bus
Four people were killed and 25 were injured when a speedy train rammed a passenger bus at Dherua Rail Crossing on Dhaka-Tangail Highway at Mirzapur upazila in the district yesterday afternoon.
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Rejoinder
Former president of Chittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) Amir Humayun Mahmud Chowdhury has issued a rejoinder to part of the report headlined "Big shots levelled vast terrain of Ctg hills"
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Bombing kills 75 in Baghdad
22 insurgents, 50 civilians killed in fighting
A massive truck bomb exploded near a Shia mosque in the centre of the Iraqi capital yesterday, killing more than 75 people while 22 insurgents and 50 other people were killed in fighting with US-led forces
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Nuclear Standoff With West
Iran refuses to rule out use of 'oil weapon'
Iran yesterday refused to rule out using oil supplies as a weapon in the standoff over its nuclear programme, saying Washington had never excluded attacking the Islamic republic.
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West restores direct aid to Palestinians
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas won the lifting of a crippling Western aid freeze amid efforts to isolate Hamas in its Gaza enclave, where fears are mounting of a humanitarian crisis.
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