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Hasina arrives amid cheering crowd
Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina finally returned home to a rapturous welcome by thousands of adoring supporters yesterday, 20 days after the military-backed interim government sought to force
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EC to push political parties into reforms
De-linking of professional, student bodies to be made must for registration; financial transparency, democracy inside parties to be monitored
Political parties will have to amend their constitutions to de-link professional bodies and student organisations to get registered with the Election Commission (EC) as part of electoral reforms the EC
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Explain action against Khaleda
HC asks govt, gives 4-week deadline
The High Court (HC) yesterday ordered the government to explain within four weeks why it shall not be directed to allow BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to move freely.
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Guidelines given to free judiciary
SC asks govt for report on execution by July 19
The Supreme Court (SC) yesterday directed the government to complete the process for implementation of separation of judiciary from the executive and to inform the court about its execution by July 19.
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Hawa Bhaban active again to rule BNP
A group of people close to Hawa Bhaban and Tarique Rahman have taken initiatives to persuade the BNP chief to make changes in the upper echelon of the party in an attempt to re-establish their own supremacy
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Dreadful ordeal
Thousands cram into sweltering, understaffed passport office every day
Over two thousand people, all sweating and exhausted, stood from morning till noon in queues zigzagging on the premises of the Department of Immigration and Passport (DIP) at Agargaon in the capital under
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Khaleda hails Hasina's return
In a rare gesture in the country's politics, BNP Chairperson and former prime minister Khaleda Zia last night welcomed her arch political rival Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina's homecoming.
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China plans to divert Brahmaputra waters
Environmentalists fear huge eco disaster in Bangladesh
China plans to construct a dam at Yarlung Tsangpo point on the Brahmaputra River in Tibet province to divert 200 billion cubic metres of water annually to the Yellow River threatening a major ecological
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Court to frame charges against Nizami today
A Dhaka court will frame charges today against Jamaat-e-Islami chief Matiur Rahman Nizami and nine other leaders of the party and its student front in connection with the killing of a Workers Party activist
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Pre-budget Discussion
Hold talks before, after budget in absence of JS
Former adviser to a caretaker government Akbar Ali Khan has suggested that the caretaker government hold consultation meetings before and after the budget declaration to fulfil the constitutions in the
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Major reshuffle in administration
17 secys, jt secys given new posting
Seventeen secretaries and joint secretaries have been given new postings by the caretaker government in its latest reshuffle in the administration.
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Nor'wester kills four
Four people were killed and more than 20 injured as nor'wester accompanied by rain lashed Rajshahi city and three other upazilas of the district yesterday evening.
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Netrakona Blast
Charges framed against Bangla Bhai's wife, 3 JMB men
Speedy Trial Tribunal Court-1 in Dhaka on Sunday noon framed charge against four JMB men including Fahima Farjana, wife of executed militant kingpin Siddikul Islam Bangla Bhai, in the case filed for December
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Rain trees in Ctg dying of rare fungus
The century-old rain trees at the city's Central Railway Building (CRB), Polo Ground and the Tiger Pass area might have been attacked by a rare and deadly fungal disease named dieback, said experts.
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Series Explosions
Ahmadiyyas point at bigots
Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, Bangladesh says Islamist organisations that had threatened the Ahmadiyyas on various occasions in the last few years might be behind the three concurrent bomb explosions in Dhaka,
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HSC exam begins Thursday
The Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations, including Alim and HSC (BM), will begin across the country on Thursday.
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Dhaka asks Delhi to send back Joy
Bangladesh requested India to send back dreaded crime lord Khandakar Tanvir Islam Joy, who was arrested by Kolkata police on Saturday.
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Iraq reels from spate of blasts
Car bombs kill 20
Suicide car bombers killed 20 more Iraqis yesterday as Iraqi and American forces battled to regain the initiative after a day of carnage left eight US soldiers and a European journalist dead.
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Outlaw killed in 'shootout'
An underground operative was killed in an encounter with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Ataikula upazila of the district yesterday.
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