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BNP deputies demand pro-polls budget
Rally for special allocations; Saifur entertains proposal to put MPs on tax collection bodies
While the country's leading economists warned Finance and Planning Minister M Saifur Rahman of dire pitfalls of an election-oriented budget for the next fiscal year, ruling party lawmakers yesterday requested

Govt moves to legalise use of 21,458 project cars
Rules may be amended
The government, being failed to stop different ministries from using 21,458 project vehicles on completion of the projects, has now moved to legalise the unauthorised use by amending rules on public transport,

22 die in Tangail road crashes
5 more die in city
Twenty-two people died in Tangail and five others in Dhaka City in road accidents yesterday.

Hailstorm lashes capital
Hailstorm along with gusty wind for the second successive day damaged many trees and roadside billboards in the city late yesterday afternoon.

Drawn to touts in desperate hope
Manpower brokers do not even need to lure fortune-seekers
The urge to leave Bangladesh has become so high for fortune-seekers, particularly among those of the younger generation, that manpower recruiting agencies cannot keep pace with the brisk trade in foreign

Border Tension
Dhaka, Delhi agree to thrash out strains
Amidst escalating border tension, Dhaka and New Delhi yesterday agreed to maintain friendship and good neighbourly relations by thrashing out strains.

Double Murder Protest
Cable traders to switch off channels for 24 hours
All satellite channels will be shut for 24 hours starting from 6:00pm today.
Cable Operators Association, Bangladesh (Coab) took the decision to protest the killing of its assistant organising secretary.

Caretaker, Ec Reform Demand
Opposition plans to match '96 agitation
The mainstream opposition parties plan to launch street agitation at the end of the next month over a one-point demand for reforms to the caretaker government system and the Election Commission (EC) in

Fuel station caught selling water in city
Cops close it down, arrest 4, owner in hiding
A filling station at Mirpur in the capital yesterday sold water instead of diesel to some 25 vehicles.

Anti-dumping Row
EU okays sanctions against US products
European Union member states on Monday approved slapping sanctions on a range of US products imported into Europe beginning May 1 in a long-running row over a controversial US anti-dumping law.

Choking the streets...

Akhaura Offensive
Civil society team blames it on BSF
Incursion into Bangladeshi territory by Indian troops led to the April 16 gunfight between Indian Border Security Force (BSF) and Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) on Akhaura frontier, said a civil society delegation

High-rise Building
ZIA faces desertion threat
The Zia International Airport (ZIA) might be declared abandoned if the height of the high-rise buildings around it is not brought down to permissible level.

CMP chief, 13 others sued over murder of 2 labourers
Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) Commissioner Amjad Hossain and 13 policemen were sued in a court here yesterday for the murder of two labourers in a police shootout during the clash with Chittagong

EC rejects Bar Council appeal to observe CCC elections
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) MA Syed yesterday rejected Bangladesh Bar Council's appeal for permission to observe the upcoming Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) polls describing the organisationpolitically

Attack on Embassy
PM directs stern action against masterminds
Prime Minister (PM) Khaleda Zia has directed to take stern actions against the masterminds of Sunday's attack on the Bangladesh embassy in Kuwait, while the government has asked Bangladesh missions in

26 Bangladeshis detained in Cyprus
Some 26 Bangladeshis have been detained by police in Cyprus while heading for certain western destinations of their own free will.

I will enter politics if people want
Says Joy
Sajib Wajed Joy, son of the Leader of the Opposition and Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina, yesterday said young leadership is necessary to make Bangladesh a corruption-free country.

Faizee has no moral right to remain a judge
Lawyers say at rally
Lawyers at a rally yesterday said the High Court's Additional Judge Faisal Mahmud Faizee has no moral right to remain a judge when Bangladesh Bar Council has revoked his certificate of enrolment.

9 trade bodies slate couple of Indian dailies' reports
Nine leading trade bodies including the highest organisation of the country's chambers of commerce and industry yesterday expressed concern over "recent write-ups" on "terrorists' activities" in Bangladesh

India test-fires multi-target missile
India test-fired yesterday a multi-target missile on its eastern coast, defence ministry officials said.

Ex-Bac director Hannan sent back to army
The government yesterday sent back former director of Bureau of Anti-Corruption (Bac) Lt Col Abdul Hannan Mridha, whose activities created controversies in the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), to the

Balu Murder
Charges pressed against 8 outlaws
Detective police yesterday pressed charges against eight outlaws for killing Humayun Kabir Balu, editor of the local daily Dainik Janmabhumi and president of Khulna Press Club, on June 27 last year.

Woman ward commissioner escapes gun attack in city
An elected woman ward commissioner of Mirpur escaped a gun attack allegedly by the killers of her husband in city's Mirpur area yesterday morning.

Faizee attends court amid boycott
Additional High Court Judge Faisal Mahmud Faizee, whose licence to practise law as an advocate was cancelled Sunday, continued his work yesterday amidst ongoing boycott of his court by the lawyers.