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Debate Over Petition by Judge
AL MPs demonstrate in House over mic turn-off
SQ Chy prompts speaker to bar Suranjit from countering Moudud
Awami League (AL) lawmakers yesterday staged an unusual demonstration in the House to protest switching off microphone of a senior fellow lawmaker who tried to counter the law minister's statement ona
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Ignored complaints led judge to go to court
He wrote about intimidation to law ministry, SC in May
District and Sessions Judge Shaikh Jahangir Husain, who filed a writ petition Tuesday against alleged government pressure to free some criminals before the Dhaka-10 by-election, had earlier made a series
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Khaleda sees new high in ties with Singapore
Red carpet rolled out for Goh Chok Tong
Prime Minister Khaleda Zia yesterday said the visit of Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong would provide fresh thrust in raising Bangladesh-Singapore relations to new heights, especially in the fields of trade
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Police rescue trader from Aliya Madrasa
3 pro-BNP men held; cops pressurised to free them
Police yesterday arrested a leader of ruling BNP's student front Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) and two activists of the party's youth front for suspected link to the kidnap of a businessman from Motijheel
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WB to give $250m for voluntary retirement
The World Bank (WB) will provide $250 million to Bangladesh for implementing Voluntary Retirement Schemes (VRS) under the donor-funded Enterprise Growth and Bank Modernisation Project.
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Shankhari Bazar Tragedy
Owners start razing down risky buildings
Scared of Shankhari Bazar building collapse, some owners of old and vulnerable houses in the old Dhaka neighbourhoods have decided to demolish the structures voluntarily.
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Moudud bins judge's pressure allegation
Law Minister Moudud Ahmed yesterday rejected a district and sessions judge's allegations in a writ petition of government pressure on him to set free notorious criminals before Dhaka-10 by-polls and termed
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PPs to sue judge
Two public prosecutors yesterday said they would sue Judge Shaikh Jahangir Husain for levelling 'false and imaginary allegations' against them in a writ petition the judge filed with the High Court (HC)
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Thai Airways to manage Ctg airport
The Cabinet Purchase Committee yesterday approved appointment of Thai Airways as the foreign private management for Chittagong Shah Amanat International Airport.
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Guantanamo Prison
Rumsfeld okayed prisoner torture
US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld approved the use of stress positions, hoods, forced nudity, and dogs to instil fear during interrogations of prisoners at a detention centre in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,
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Rocca for deeper ties with Dhaka
Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs Christina Rocca at a hearing on South Asia yesterday at the House International Relations Committee favoured a deeper US engagement with Bangladesh.
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Rejoinder and our reply
The water resources ministry in a rejoinder to a report carried by The Daily Star on Sunday under the headline 'Waste Extravaganza at Water Ministry' yesterday claimed the report contained factual errors
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Qaeda threat to Iraq PM
Islamist militants vowed yesterday to assassinate Iraq's interim prime minister, just hours after they said they had beheaded a South Korean hostage in the violent run-up to a U.S. handover to Iraqi rule.
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Police, Rab to get Tk 93cr firearms
Saifur sick of seeing cops getting killed by criminals
The Cabinet Purchase Committee yesterday approved a Tk 93 crore proposal to purchase modern firearms for police and Rapid Action Battalion (Rab).
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The trusted turns kidnapper
2 Uttara children abducted by the boy their mother sheltered
Trust perhaps will never come easy for Salma Begum, the mother of abducted Sabbir and Sajib, as the boy whom she provided food and shelter kidnapped her sons on Monday to extract Tk 10 lakh in ransom.
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Mirza Abbas claims speaker's house followed Kahn's plan
IAB chief urges PM to protect Sangsad Bhaban design
Institute of Architects, Bangladesh (IAB) President Mubasshar Husain has appealed to the prime minister and the people to protect the national parliament complex, which he said is considered worldwide
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National Maths Festival opens
A two-day National Mathematics Festival at student level began yesterday at Notre Dame College in Dhaka with a festive mood.
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11 JCD men accused of Patuatuli cop attack
Police accused 11 members of BNP's student wing Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) and 15 to 20 others for Tuesday's assault on a police constable following a clash between Jagannath University College students
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Euro 2004
Italy face press fury
The Italian press directed its fury at its national team yesterday after the Azzurri crashed out of Euro 2004 while Sweden and Denmark qualified.
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Cobra to get special gears to combat crime
All members of Cobra, a special police drive launched to arrest criminals in the capital, will be provided with bulletproof jackets, sophisticated crash helmets and firearms to successfully encountertheir
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41 dengue patients hospitalised
As many as 41 people suffering from dengue fever were admitted to different city hospitals in the last 24 hours until yesterday evening.
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2 abducted in Kushtia rescued
Police on Tuesday in three separate incidents rescued two abducted people and arrested one in Kushtia and Meherpur and recovered skeleton of an abducted person in Jhenidah.
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Cop Murders
Suspects yet to be nabbed
Investigators till yesterday night failed to arrest any of the suspected murderers of two policemen in the capital's Motijheel on Sunday.
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Ahsanullah Killing
Charges to be pressed against 25
Police are going to press charges against some 25 people, dropping two from the list of 17 accused in the FIR (first information report) on the Ahsanullah Master MP murder case.
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