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CHT strike to be called off early |
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The 72-hour shutdown that began Tuesday was supposed end on Thursday noon |
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Bangladesh to attain UN's poverty goal by 2013 |
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World Bank says Bangladesh will achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goal (MDG) in poverty alleviation by this year. MORE TO FOLLOW |
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'Explain opening on holidays' |
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Bangladesh Bank asks banks to explain why their branches should open on holidays |
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Fire in Dhaka apparel unit |
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The fire was put out soon, no injury reported |
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3 'bandits' killed in Sunderbans |
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RAB claims killing three bandits, 2 of them leaders of separate gangs. |
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Bitter Sweet |
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Mango growers in West Bengal's Maldah-Murshidabad region blame loss of Bangladesh market on hiked import duty |
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Poem recited in Parliament expunged |
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Shammi Akhter quotes from a poem containing a vulgar word in her speech |
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JICA builds school for the blind |
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The new building has special amenities like computers with braille software and dictionaries |
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Tulip weds |
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The granddaughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman marries a British civil servant. More details |
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'ACC is a toothless tiger' |
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Golam Rahman admits ACC fails to emerge as a strong and effective institution in the last four years MORE TO FOLLOW |
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BNP won't budge from caretaker |
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The government wants the opposition to come to elections by giving examples of fair polls under their rule, says spokesperson |
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'No construction on Siddheswari School ground' |
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High Court calls for explanation on lease agreement with Toma Group |
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Abul Hossain slams WB report |
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Former communications minister says the report is bereft of logic, proof and jurisprudence |
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SA bowled out for 175 |
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England rip through their ranks to restrict South Africa to 175 all out |
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UK mission, DfID mourn workers |
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Robert Gibson and Sarah Cooke were 'shocked and saddened' of construction workers |
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Global warming to affect Bangladesh most: WB |
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A World Bank report claims Bangladesh will be among 'the most affected' countries in South Asia by the global warming |
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Don't puzzle people: PM |
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She responds to remarks by the BNP MPs over her family, anti-Hifazat drive and Tipaimukh project |
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Editors call for illegal billboards eviction |
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Editors of Chittagong-based newspapers submit a memorandum to the mayor to evict illegal billboards |
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BNP leaders' unpaid loan Tk 10 bn |
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Khaleda's two sons and brothers along with several leaders are main defaulters |
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PM opens specialised ENT hospital |
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The 250-bed hospital is now open for all |
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Evidence key to case: ACC Chairman |
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Anti-Corruption Commission Chairman Ghulam Rahman rebuts World Bank's report. |
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Lightning kills 2 |
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2 killed, 8 injured in lightning near British High Commission in Gulshan |
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Thanchi off limits for 3 months |
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The monsoon turns the mountains into a difficult area , authorities say |
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Two editors get bail |
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A Dhaka court grants them bail on a defamation suit filed by Jute and Textiles Minister Abdul Latif Siddique |
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DSE bullish, turnover up |
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For the first time since September last year has the DSE turnover topped the TK 10 billion mark |
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Khulna-Dhaka buses remain off |
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10 districts of Khulna division are covered by a transport worker's strike |
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'Don't neglect female health' |
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The Prime Minister says greater attention should be paid to female healthcare. MORE TO FOLLOW |
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Student dives to death |
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A student dies after a faulty dive into Dhaka university swimming pool |
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Saiful found after 5 months |
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The Chhatra League leader of Islamic University has been found at Goalanda Ghat |
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5 Jamaat men held |
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Police say they have been nabbed with arms after a gunbattle |
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Workers protest Bidi factory closure |
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Management says higher taxation made it impossible to run the factory gainfully |
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Second day of CHT strike |
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Bengali groups protest the CHT land-dispute settlement commission amendment placed at Parliament |
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India rain toll 130 |
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Three days of torrential rains have left at least 130 dead and 70,000 stranded in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh |
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'AL can't bridge Padma' |
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BNP MP Zafrul Islam Chowdhury says World Bank moved away from the project because of AL's corruption |
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JP Morgan considers investment |
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A JP Morgan delegation visits DSE and discusses investment opportunities and environment |
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JICA over with Padma Bridge |
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The Japanese global funding agency says it will not return to the Padma bridge project |
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ACC questionable for dropping Abul Hossain: WB |
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The report says the ACC investigation did not appear to be full and fair. |
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SQ Chowdhury calls prosecutors 'persecutors' |
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The ICT, however, omits the word from the testimony record amid objections |
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No EVMs in Kaliganj polls |
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EC decides against the machines because of problems in the recent polls |
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Jahangir backs Azmat in Gazipur |
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Awami League will have one Mayor aspirant at the intervention of Sheikh Hasina |
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Govt borrowing Tk 4.6bn per day |
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The credit had better be spent on priority projects, not wasted on a political agenda, says an expert |
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HC seeks ACC chief's job papers |
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Documents summoned include his appoint and joining letters and salary details |
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Hiran blames Hasnat |
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The former Barisal Mayor takes a dig at MP Abul Hasnat Abdullah |
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SQ Chowdhury rambles in ICT |
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Salauddin Quader Chowdhury refuses to focus on the real issue |
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Businesswomen invited to Delhi meet |
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Buyers and sellers conclave will offer big opportunities to women-run businesses |
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Imran protests Guardian report |
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The Ganajagaran Mancha spokesperson terms the report 'part of international conspiracy' to foil war crimes trials |
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Deputy Speaker in Parliament |
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He has chaired the House for the first time on the 12th day of the current budget session |
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Elections may 'derail' |
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The struggle for ballot will be won or lost on the streets, an influential British daily says |
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Businesswomen invited to Delhi meet |
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Buyers and sellers conclave will offer big opportunities to women-run businesses |
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ICSB observes 3rd anniversary |
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President urges members to develop country's corporate sector |
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Shakib top all-rounder again |
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Shakib Al Hasan gets back his No. 1 spot in ODI rankings |
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Tk 5 bln for rural ICT expansion |
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Project aims at expansion of information and communication technology services at the Upazilla and village levels |
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President's oath-taking law challenged |
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A lawyer has challenged in the High Court the Speaker's authority to administer oath |
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37-year jail for 4 for abduction-rape |
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Netrokona's special tribunal gives verdict for the crime committed in 2004 |
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Green light for Elevated Expressway |
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Construction of the Tk 87.03 billion road will begin in August, says minister |
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4 held in RU raids |
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Police arrest two BCL and two Islami Chhatra Shibir activists in raids on Monday |
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Gazipur Mayoral aspirants get symbols |
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Mayoral aspirants in the first ever Gazipur City Corporation polls begin their campaign after getting poll symbols |
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Symbols allocated for Kishoreganj-4 by-poll |
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One gets 'boat', the other 'football' for the July 3 election |
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Bulbul's victory emboldens Shibir |
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Jamaat student wing makes inroads to Rajshahi University campus after opposition-backed candidate's victory in mayoral polls |
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Tributes for Atiqul at Shaheed Minar |
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People from all walks of life paid their last respect to the celebrated playwright Atiqul Haque Chowdhury at Central Shaheed Minar on Tuesday. |
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Month-long motorbike survey in city |
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Government will conduct the survey from Wednesday to determine the accurate number of illegal motorbikes in capital Dhaka |
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Blame it on Bangladesh |
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Ringed in by angry women seeking justice for a rape-murder victim, West Bengal Chief Minister blames it on "infiltrators from Bangladesh" |
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Cell to upkeep health equipment |
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Health minister says the govt will set up a 'special cell' to monitor and maintain hospital equipment |
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ICU at district hospitals |
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Health Minister says govt aims to take critical-care support to grassroots |
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UAE crash: Driver to pay blood money to families |
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Driver found guilty of manslaughter, causing unintended harm and tailgating |
