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NBR probes import, duty mismatch
Tariff cut, customs corruption thought to be main reasons
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is looking into why the revenue collection from import grew only by eight percent in July to December 2004, when imports marked a 23 percent growth.
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Combine S'pore tech with Dhaka's labour
PM urges Singapore business leaders
Prime Minister Khaleda Zia yesterday proposed that private sectors of Singapore and Bangladesh develop, through a coordinated venture, a competitive supply chain for global consumption of their products.
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Move to make first defence policy
The Armed Forces Division (AFD) has initiated steps to formulate for the first time a defence policy for the country to provide the armed forces with directions to strengthen themselves on a prioritybasis,
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PM's Priority Projects
A few ministers, BNP MPs grab lion's share
Observes JS body on planning ministry
The prime minister's priority projects under the water resources ministry remain limited to the constituencies of a handful of ministers and ruling party lawmakers, the members of parliamentary standing
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Tornado victims in crying need of food, medicine
Death toll rises to 48
The victims of Sunday's devastating tornado in four upazilas of Gaibandha and Rangpur districts are in crying need of food, medicine and shelter with the death count in the devastating twister reaching
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Hartal shifted to Mar 31
The main opposition Awami League (AL) and its left allies have shifted their March 27 countrywide hartal to March 31 to facilitate the Christian community's observance of Easter Sunday.
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US-India Coop
US expresses 'constructive concern' over Bangladesh
The United States Monday said there has not been any specific initiative on US-India cooperation on issues relating to Bangladesh but expressed "constructive concern" about the threats and attacks onthe
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45 Ctg journos offer to go to jail
CPJ condemns conviction, editors give reaction
Forty-five Chittagong-based journalists in a joint statement yesterday offered to go to jail as a gesture of sympathy to their fellow professionals punished by the High Court on Monday.
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Remains not Jamaluddin's
Claims family
The skeleton recovered from Fatikchhari on Monday could not be confirmed as that of Chittagong business magnate Jamaluddin Chowdhury abducted twenty months back.
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Tongi Power Plant
Record gas output fails to put it at full throttle
The country's gas production yesterday reached an all time high of 1,450 million cubic feet a day (mmcfd) but the new 110-megawatt (mw) gas turbine Tongi power plant cannot go into full operation dueto
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Ctg Arms Haul
Suppl chargesheet accepted
Hearing April 10
A court here yesterday accepted the supplementary chargesheet in the sensational Chittagong arms haul case and fixed April 10 for hearing on charge-framing.
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Illegal Manpower Business
JS body for stern move
A parliamentary body yesterday asked the home and civil aviation ministries to take stern action against the unscrupulous travel agents and the officials concerned who are involved in sending Bangladeshi
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Pollution, Indian Dams
80 rivers in death bed throe: Hafiz
Minister for Water Resources Hafiz Uddin Ahmad Bir Bikram yesterday said more than 80 rivers and innumerable water bodies of Bangladesh have already dried up due to pollution and India's decision to construct
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Camel Jockey
UAE stops visas to couples with male children
The government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has decided not to issue entry visas or entry permits to couples from several countries, including Bangladesh, trying to enter the UAE accompanied by male
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BSF kills two on no-man's land
Indian Border Security Force (BSF) opened fire at Baradi border in Damurhuda upazila in the district Monday night killing two people--one Bangladeshi and another Indian.
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Nine news men sued in Sherpur
An Awami League leader filed a case Monday with the district CR Cognisance Court against nine journalists of a local weekly magazine 'Chalti Khabar' including its editor.
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