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New policy to encourage small power plants
The energy and power ministry has drafted a policy to award contract to anyone without any competition to set up small power plants ranging from 10 megawatts to 50 megawatts.
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Evolve tech to fight salinity problem
Minister urges scientists
Experts at an agricultural planning meeting yesterday underscored the need for augmenting food production in saline-prone zones in the country and called for providing farmers with technologies to combat
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Garment Factory Collapse
'Punish all responsible for tragedy'
Speakers at a rally yesterday demanded exemplary punishment to the persons responsible for the garment factory collapse at Savar that claimed heavy loss of lives.
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Tasnuva held in US for illegal stay
The case of Tasnuva Hayder, a Bangladeshi teenage girl detained by US authorities in New York, is a consular matter and a case of illegal stay, the foreign ministry said yesterday.
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'Create alternative jobs for tobacco workers'
The government must create alternative employment opportunities for bidi and cigarette industry workers or repeal the anti-tobacco law, hundreds of tobacco workers demanded at a rally in the city yesterday.
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Minority issue discussed
Harry meets Bhuiyan
LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan yesterday said United States has been extending cooperation in the developing activities of Bangladesh.
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Threat Over Telephone
UGC chairman seeks security from home ministry
In the face of repeated threat over telephone demanding toll, Chairman of the University Grants Commission (UGC) Prof M Asaduzzaman yesterday sought security from the home ministry.
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Garments employee murdered
A garments employee, stabbed by a gang of hoodlums at Pallabi in the city, died at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) in the early hours of yesterday.
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AL leaders seek vote for Mohiuddin
Awami League central leaders Suranjit Sengupta and Obaidul Kader yesterday joined polls campaign for party leader and Nagorik Committee-backed mayoral candidate ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury in the Chittagong
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Proper investigation demanded
Leaders of the Bangladesh Mahila Parishad, Chittagong unit, yesterday demanded proper investigation into the murder of bus driver Ashraf Ali, which took place on October 1, 2004.
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Hasina greets new Pope
Leader of the Opposition in Parliament and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina has congratulated Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany on his election as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church.
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SC stays AL leader Manik's bail
Responding to a government plea, the Supreme Court (SC) yesterday stayed for two weeks the operation of the High Court (HC) order that had granted bail to former Awami League lawmaker Mohibur Rahman Manik
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1,713 more held
Police arrested 1,713 more people on various charges from different parts of the country in the last 24 hours as of 6.00am yesterday.
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