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Mahi sweeps back to parliament
Bikalpa Dhara candidate Mahi B Chowdhury swept back to parliament from Munshiganj-1 constituency yesterday in a by-election overshadowed by allegations of rigging by his four-party alliance rival.
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UN mandate not enough to send troops to Iraq
Morshed tells Rumsfeld
Foreign Minister M Morshed Khan yesterday said a UN peacekeeping mandate is not enough for Bangladesh to commit deployment of its troops in Iraq, but call from the Iraqis and positive public opinion at
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Story behind Nurul Islam's removal
When Acting Secretary of the PMO Nurul Islam was forced into retirement, two major allegations were raised against him -- ordering an investigation into alleged corruption of Tarique Zia, son of the prime
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Key telecoms mission turns into pleasure trip
Internal report blames BTTB chairman for skipping meetings, holidaying
A strategic international business mission of Bangladesh Telegraph and Telephone Board (BTTB) in Washington failed as its chief turned that official visit into a pleasure trip at state expense, says a
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Sizzling Sarwan
Ramnaresh Sarwan was in superlative form and his previously out-of-form Guyana mate Shivnarine Chanderpaul was looking in terrific touch as they carried the West Indies to a position from where they can
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Left out of franchise
Kamala Begum of Sabjihata village went back home without casting her vote at Srinagar auditorium polling centre in Munshiganj yesterday morning, as her vote was rigged -- a scene played out before journalists.
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Cops detain teacher to scare away minority voters
Police prevented a popular schoolteacher early yesterday morning from casting vote and detained him in Srinagar during Munshiganj-1 by-polls, scaring some 2,000 minority voters off polling booths.
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Move to fire top officials stalled
An intervention by a section of ruling BNP policymakers has stalled the move to terminate several top bureaucrats and give punishment posting to many others, who had close links with the sacked acting
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Ronald Reagan dies at 93
Former President Ronald Reagan, who brought a blend of homespun humour, sunny optimism, right-wing politics and fierce anti-Communism to the White House as he presided over the end of the Cold War, died
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F28 fails to fly in its maiden flight
One of the two newly procured F28 aircraft of Biman could not take off in its maiden commercial flight as pilots failed to restart the engine after it went off with a jerk yesterday.
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Graft Case
Ex-BPC chairman, Jamuna Oil GM sent to jail
A Chittagong court yesterday rejected interim bail petition for a former Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) chairman and an ex-general manager (GM) of Jamuna Oil Company Limited in a graft case and
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SP Baten sent to jail
A metropolitan magistrate's court in Dhaka yesterday sent Special Superintendent of Police Abdul Baten to jail after he was arrested on charge of offering bribe to State Minister for Home Affairs Lutfozzaman
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Man-eater on the prowl
Sundarbans lovers beware unless you're not scared of a tryst with a man-eater! A tiger is on a record-breaking killing spree.
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Top Palestinian revolt leader jailed by Israel
Sharon cabinet set to okay Gaza pullout plan
An Israeli court yesterday sentenced Marwan Barghouthi, a Palestinian uprising leader widely seen as a potential successor to President Yasser Arafat, to five consecutive life terms in prison on murder
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Nasa rover to land in Martian crater
The US space agency has decided to send one of its Martian rovers into a volcanic crater in the hope of finding evidence of water there -- even at the risk of being unable to retrieve the craft afterit
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Two killed over drug peddling
Alleged rivals yesterday gunned down a listed criminal over a drug-peddling dispute and injured a rickshaw-puller in Dania in Shyampur and then, to avenge the murder, the killer suspect was chopped to
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AL observes Six-point Day today
Main opposition Awami League (AL) will observe Six-point Day today with a call to establish 'rule of law' in the country through a united movement.
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President, PM condole Reagan's death
President Iajuddin Ahmed and Prime Minister Khaleda Zia yesterday expressed their deep shock at the death of former US president Ronald Reagan.
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Grisly murder of expatriate
Unknown criminals slaughtered a young man and dumped his severed body on Bishwa Road near Khilgaon Community Centre yesterday.
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Jawadul Karim dies
Jawadul Karim, an eminent journalist and Press Secretary to former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, died following a cerebral hemorrhage in a city hospital yesterday. He was 65.
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Fixed Phone Licensing
Probe into BTRC 'anomalies' demanded
A group of experts yesterday urged the government to run a probe into 'irregularities' by telecoms watchdog Bangladesh Telecommuni-cations Regulatory Commission (BTRC) in inviting applications under the
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Bus Arson
Cops beat up Jubo League protest rally
Riot police yesterday baton-charged and lobbed teargas shells at Awami Jubo League workers at Bangabandhu Avenue as they held a rally, protesting Friday's arson attack on a double-decker bus that left
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