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Forest offices raided, 4 top officials held
The joint forces launched simultaneous raids in forest department offices in Dhaka and other city and district forest offices yesterday and arrested four high-ranking forest officials who were allegedly
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Proposal ready to up fertiliser price 51pc
The government is going to raise the price of per tonne urea fertiliser by 51 percent in a bid to minimise the loss of government-run fertiliser factories and to stop smuggling of fertiliser to the neighbouring
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Landslide Probe Report
DoE, city corporation, forest office blamed
Absence of specific policy guidelines on hill management, lack of initiative to check indiscriminate hill cutting and encroaching on government land are the main reasons behind the rain-induced landslides
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First Test from today
Survive as long as possible will be the key when Bangladesh, under new captain Mohammad Ashraful, face mighty Sri Lanka in the first Test of a three-match series at the Sinhalese Sports Club (SSC) ground
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EC moves to make NRBs, enclave people voters
The Election Commission (EC) has initiated steps for registering non-resident Bangladeshi citizens and the citizens who live in Bangladesh enclaves surrounded by Indian territories.
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Dhaka gets IAEA nod to set up N-plant
Bangladesh along with seven other countries has got the much-desired approval of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to set up nuclear reactors for power generation.
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BNP reformists meet again
Reformist leaders of BNP yesterday held a meeting among themselves and also met some senior leaders of the party to put the final touches on their party reform proposal which will be made public any time
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Govt not imposing reforms on parties
Says Mainul
Law Adviser Barrister Mainul Hosein yesterday said the government is not imposing reforms on the political parties; it is rather helping them in their endeavours to bring reforms.
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Tarique's in-laws' house searched
The joint forces yesterday raided Tarique Rahman's in-laws' house in Dhanmondi and took away documents concerning the property of his wife Zubaida Khan Rahman.
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Thunderstorms in Karachi kill 228
Torrential rain and thunderstorms have killed 228 people and injured about 200 others in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, provincial health minister Syed Sardar Ahmed said yesterday.
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Iraq's 'Chemical Ali' sentenced to hang
An Iraqi court yesterday sentenced Saddam Hussein's cousin known as "Chemical Ali" and two other former regime officials to death by hanging for their roles in a 1980s scorched-earth campaign that led
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Trial of 3 JMB patrons may start today
The trial of former BNP lawmakers Aminul Haq, Ruhul Kuddus Talukder Dulu and Nadim Mostafa for aiding and abetting the militants is likely to begin today.
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Criminals kill 1, injure another at Adabor
Unknown criminals strangled one and critically injured another person at Adabor in the capital yesterday. The dead is Ainal Huq Mollah, 55, caretaker of a piece of land in Adabor.
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Ramna Blasts
Huji man Wali remanded
A Dhaka court yesterday remanded banned Harkatul Jihad (HuJi) man Waliur Rahman for eight days in the Ramna Batamul carnage case.
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Nepal polls Nov 22
Nepal's eight political parties announced yesterday that November 22 will be the date for the Himalayan nation's first post-war elections originally scheduled for June.
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Woman dies from bomb splinters
A woman was killed after allegedly being hit by splinters of a bomb dropped from a training aircraft of Bangladesh Air Force at Pahar Pabaijan of Muktagacha upazila of Mymensingh yesterday afternoon.
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Iran warns against nuclear sanctions
A senior Iranian official warned Saturday that further UN sanctions over Tehran's contentious nuclear programme could derail ongoing negotiations toward a settlement.
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Rejoinder
Awami League leader and former civil aviation minister Engineer Mosharraf Hossain sent a rejoinder to a news item published in The Daily Star on June 18 headlined "Big shots levelled vast terrain of Ctg
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