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Expanding Advisory Council
Govt looks to ways beyond constitution
The law ministry might suggest the caretaker government an alternative way to expand the cabinet as the constitution does not provide for pushing the number of advisers beyond 10.
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2nd List of 50 Graft Suspects
Taskforces list 22 for formal probe
The Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) is now all equipped to launch formal investigations against 22 of the 50 top graft suspects named on the second list of such suspects, unofficially released on March
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Demonstration for Arrears
RMG worker killed as cops open fire; 16 hurt
A female garment worker was killed and 12 other workers were injured as police opened fire and charged baton on the workers demonstrating for overtime arrears and monthly salaries in front of their factory
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Special court's first verdict against Harris today
Charges framed against Mamun, his brother ex-MP Hafiz in arms cases
Judgement of a graft case filed against Harris Chowdhury, political secretary to former prime minister Khaleda Zia, will be delivered today by a special court in Dhaka.
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84 more fake students detected at DU
Dhaka University (DU) authorities have identified 84 more students at the Department of International Relations (IR) and Institute of Social Welfare and Research, who got admitted by fraudulent means.
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Death of Youth in Rab Action
Torture marks found on victim's body, protests go on
Thousands of locals brought out a procession at the Rajshahi city suburb of Chhotobongram Purbopara yesterday as the body of Quamrul Islam Majnu, who was allegedly tortured to death by Rapid Action Battalion
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Tarique finally spills the beans
Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia's detained elder son Tarique Rahman admitted to his involvement in large-scale corruption that he claims was largely the workings of his close friend Giasuddin
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Investment package good enough for oil companies
Says outgoing Chevron chief
Outgoing Chief of Chevron Bangladesh Andrew L Fawthrop believes that Bangladesh's investment package is good enough to attract oil companies in the third round bidding -- but it would have to ensure an
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'No Vote' Provision
AL expresses reservations, BNP silent
The Awami League (AL) yesterday expressed reservations about the Election Commission's (EC) proposal for introducing a system for casting "no votes" while the BNP kept mum on the issue.
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Khaleda sick
BNP chairperson and former prime minister Khaleda Zia is suffering from high blood pressure and diabetes.
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Dastagir sues Zafrullah
Gazi Golam Dastagir filed an extortion case against detained Awami League (AL) Presidium Member Kazi Zafrullah on Saturday night.
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Polls within 2008
Reiterates chief adviser
Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed yesterday said the general election could be held within 2008 as per the chief election commissioner's announcement for the possible time requisite for preparing voter ID
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Ex-BNP MP Abul Hossain sent to jail
Barisal Divisional Special Tribunal yesterday sent Abul Hossain Khan, Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal vice-president and former BNP lawmaker, to jail for failing to deposit the ammunition of his pistol within the
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Threat to bomb BSMMU
Law enforcers conducted a massive two-hour search in four buildings and the prison building of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) last night after an unknown phone caller threatened to
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Chittagong Test
Third day rained off
Rain continued to play havoc with the first Test as play was called off without a single ball bowled on the third day at the Chittagong Divisional Stadium yesterday.
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8,000 chickens culled for bird flu
District administration in collaboration with joint forces culled around 8,000 free ranged fowls and layer chickens at around 400 households of eight villages and in three poultry farms in Domar upazila
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Benazir vows to return for Pak elections
Exiled former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto vowed to return to the country for the forthcoming elections, in an interview published yesterday, despite President Pervez Musharraf ruling it out.
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Nazmul Huda's brother held with pistol
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested Kamrul Huda, younger brother of detained former minister barrister Nazmul Huda, with a pistol and two rounds of bullet in Mymensingh on Saturday night.
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Files show postwar woes of Nazi victims
Looking back at the first weeks after World War II, a French lieutenant named Henri Francois-Poncet despaired at ever fulfilling his mission to establish the fate of French inmates of the Bergen-Belsen
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Rejoinder, our reply
Power Development Board (PDB) has sent a rejoinder to a news item published in The Daily Star on May 13 under the headline '16 town power distribution project, PDB spends Tk 271 crore without approval'.
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