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Leakage in Titas well 3 for 1185 days
Over Tk 100cr gas vanishes into air
Bureaucratic tangle hinders timely steps
Lack of proper attention and bureaucratic tangles that hindered timely action may have caused Titas field lose more than a hundred crore taka worth of gas due to leakage in well-3 since December 2003,
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Khaleda denies existence of dynastic politics
Promises party reforms after lifting of ban on politics as she meets Butenis who repeated call for early polls
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday said her party does not practise politics of dynasty and will back only those with qualifications and popular support.
 
AL plans to widen area of reforms
With the air buzzing with talks of bringing reforms to political parties Awami League (AL) is also planning to formulate policies reflecting the interests of people involved in different economic sectors,
 
Hard rock mining finally starts
Maddhyapara Granite Mining Company Limited (MGMCL), a hard rock mining venture of Petrobangla, finally went into production yesterday after missing several deadlines in about a decade.
 
We're working to make country better governed
Says Lt Gen Masud
Lieutenant General Masud Uddin Chowdhury, chief coordinator of the National Coordination Committee (NCC) yesterday said they are trying to put things on track so that Bangladesh is known as a countrybetter
 
Ex-MP Joynal Abedin Faruq arrested
Police yesterday detained former BNP lawmaker Joynal Abedin Faruk at Khilkhet in the capital.
 
800 vehicles stranded at Daulatdia
Some 800 vehicles, mostly goods carrying trucks, remained stranded at Daulatdia-Paturia ferry ghat yesterday evening due to shortage of ferry that carry vehicles across the Padma River.
 
1 killed, 50 hurt as storm lashes Tangail
One person was killed and at least 50 people were injured when a tornado lashed 15 villages in Delduar and Mirzapur upazilas of Tangail district on Thursday night.
 
Ground floor of six-storey building sinks into ground
Around 60 families were evacuated from the Dayaganj sweeper colony in Sutrapur as the ground floor of a newly-constructed six-storey building nearby subsided last night.
 
Murder by Muggers
9 picked up for quizzing
Law enforcers picked up nine people for quizzing from different parts of the capital after AHM Arefin Alam Rusho was shot dead in Dhanmondi on Thursday.
 
Bombs recovered in Meherpur
Five bombs were recovered from Kathuli border area in Gangni upazila of Meherpur district yesterday.
 
Fingerprint mismatch puzzle still unsolved
400 workers denied entry to KL live in uncertainty
More than 400 workers, who were sent back home from Malaysia following mismatches of fingerprints at the immigrations in Kuala Lumpur, do not know what the future holds for them.
 
JRC to resume work for survey of three trans-border rivers
The Joint River Commission (JRC) will resume its activities after about one and a half years for the joint survey of three trans-border rivers in the Sylhet-Assam region.
 
Court asks Towhid Trust to hand over Kajla bldg to Galib
A Rajshahi court on Thursday ordered an organisation named Tawhid Trust to hand over its five-storey building at Kajla in the city to its ousted member -- detained militant kingpin and Ahle Hadith Andolon,
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India in driving seat
Jaffer smashes unbeaten 138
Bangladesh spent a full day of a Test match without any success for the second time as India took the control of the second and final Test on the opening day at the Mirpur Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium
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Scorching heat...


 
Climate Change
Ban's envoy for consultations with Iftekhar
Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland, former prime minister of Norway and Special Envoy of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Climate Change, telephoned Foreign Adviser Dr Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury Thursday evening
 
2 missing in Arialkha boat capsize
A woman and a baby girl went missing when a boat with 13 passengers on board capsized in the Arialkha river yesterday morning.
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12 hurt as roof collapses at Geneva camp
At least 12 children and women were injured as roof of a building at the Mohammadpur Geneva camp in the city collapsed yesterday.
 
Rab arrests 2 abductors in Khulna
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested two abductors at Moilapota under Khulna Sadar Police Station on Thursday night. The arrestees are Manaf Ahmed Munna, 25, and Mohammad Naeem, 28.
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Nazrul a guide to establishing just society
Says chief adviser
Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed yesterday said national poet Kazi Nazrul is the shining guide to establishing a corruption-free society.
 
Pay phone shop employee attacked, robbed of Tk 30,000
A criminal stabbed a pay phone shop employee after attempting to strangle him and looted three cellphones and Tk 30,000 from a shop at North Shajahanpur in the city yesterday.
 
6 more GIs killed in Iraq as war budget passed
Six more US soldiers have been killed in Iraq, the military said yesterday, as US Congress grudgingly passed a 120-billion-dollar war funding bill despite plunging public support for the mission.
 
US, allies to toughen Iran sanctions: Bush
US President George W Bush said Thursday that he would work with European allies, Russia, and China to toughen sanctions on Iran for its defiance of UN demands to rein in its suspect nuclear programme.
 
Israeli jets hit guardhouse of Palestinian PM's home
Warplanes pounded the Gaza Strip for a ninth day yesterday as Palestinians continued to fire rockets into Israel despite a call from Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas for a truce.
 
Myanmar extends Suu Kyi's detention
Military-run Myanmar yesterday extended the detention of democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, police sources told AFP, despite growing international calls for her freedom.
 

 
   
 
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