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Ripping off the jobless
Shady companies offer huge, lucrative jobs and then ask for money
Landing a job could never have been so easy for Manik. All he had to do is to be interviewed, if being asked for his parents' names and address can be called an interview, and then be offered the job.
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GM crops on cards
Four types of crops selected as starter
Land-strapped Bangladesh is set to grow genetically modified (GM) crops to augment food production to meet the growing demand of a growing population.
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3 years of Coalition rule
Poor governance stymies poverty-cut efforts
The GDP growth rate in the three years of the coalition government clocks 5 percent on average because of poor governance although it needs to grow at 7 percent if poverty is to be cut down to below 25
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AL may join House bodies next week
Mulls attending Saturday's defence ministry committee meet to discuss the grenade attack
The Awami League (AL) is likely to start joining parliamentary standing committees on different ministries next week by attending a meeting of one such body scheduled to discuss the controversy over the
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PM vows to work hard for duty-free access to US
Batexpo opens in city
Prime Minister Khaleda Zia yesterday said her government will intensify its efforts to obtain duty-free market access to the US to sustain Bangladesh's readymade garment (RMG) market there during thequota-free
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Safta meet ends with 'fruitful' discussions
Major issues to be settled by June 2005
The South Asian nations yesterday wrapped up the fifth expert committee negotiation in Dhaka with a hope to settle four major issues related to the South Asian Free Trade Area (Safta) by June next year
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BNP moves to revamp party, face AL actions
The ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) will embark on a set of organisational programmes in the month of Ramadan to put its house in order and face probable anti-government agitation by the main
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Mosque Capture Threat
Ahmadiyya leaders demand arrest of zealots
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, Bangladesh yesterday appealed to the government to act immediately to resist religious fanatics who threatened to capture an Ahmadiyya mosque in Narayanganj town tomorrow.
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DCC snatches DTCB office
Officials label the move as showdown with communications ministry
The city council of Dhaka yesterday relocated the office of Dhaka Transport Co-ordination Board (DTCB) from Mohakhali to Nagar bhaban allegedly by force and overstepping its authority.
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JCD gives 1 day to call off DU strike
Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) yesterday gave one day to the combine of six opposition-backed student organisations to withdraw its strike that has kept Dhaka University (DU) paralysed for 24 days todate.
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Inspectors conclude no WMD in Iraq
The group hunting for banned weapons inside post-war Iraq is preparing to report that it has found no chemical, biological or nuclear weapons.
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Manmohan offers Khaleda cooperation
India extends 100cr rupee relief assistance
India will give 100 crore rupees in relief assistance to Bangladesh to help recoup the losses incurred in devastating floods, according to an offer made by the Indian prime minister in a letter to his
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BNP sweeps municipal elections
The ruling BNP-backed candidates yesterday won five of the eight chairmen posts in elections to as many municipalities. The following candidates were unofficially elected chairmen.
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Abductions, killings go unabated
2 schoolgirls, woman kidnapped; 2 outlaws shot dead by rivals
Three including two schoolgirls were abducted in Kushtia and outlaws gunned down two rivals in Jhenidah and Meherpur Tuesday.
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HC sends mass arrests case to regular bench
A vacation bench of the High Court (HC) yesterday referred the mass arrests case to the regular bench of the HC for hearing on October 26, two days after the court reopens at the end of a 50-day annual
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Justice Abedin gets gunman
More security may soon follow
Concerned about the security of Justice Joynul Abedin although it has not gone public with the finds of the one-man judicial inquiry commission he headed on the August 21 carnage, the government has provided
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10 more gunned down in Assam
Manmohan seeks help from 'friendly neighbours'
India's northeast was gripped by fear yesterday following the slaughter of more villagers by rebels, as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh claimed the militants behind the bloodletting were sheltering in Bangladesh.
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Rain to continue 2 more days
The current spell of rain with gusty wind across the country will continue at least two more days as the land depression that turned into a well-marked low is now centred in Andhra Pradesh of India, met
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Nine drown in Netrakona boat capsize
Nine people, including three children, drowned as a boat capsized in a haor at Ranichapur village in Khaliajuri upazila of Netrakona on Tuesday.
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Charmonai pir threatens to stop women sports
Amir of Islamic Constitution Movement (ICM) and Charmonai Pir Fazlul Karim yesterday threatened to besiege the National Sports Council on October 9 if the government does not stop the ongoing women'sfootball
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Skop strike partly successful
The first half of the 24-hour countrywide strike at mills and factories called by Sramik Karmachari Oikya Parishad (Skop) was partially observed without any untoward incidents yesterday.
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1 more accused in KEPZ MD killing case
The Speedy Trial Tribunal, Chittagong yesterday made another accused in the Korean Export Processing Zone (KEPZ) managing director commodore Golam Rabbani murder case and issued an warrant of arrest against
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