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Saifur's son got 100 acres land for Tk 500
Former finance minister M Saifur Rahman's younger son Shafiur Rahman Babu took lease of 100 acres of government land worth Tk 95 lakh in Srimangal upazila for only Tk 500 to establish a tea estate.
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Titas Gas Leakage
Efforts still inadequate
The government appears confused and making half-hearted efforts to resolve the gas leakage problem at Titas field where huge gas continues to leak unchecked for many months causing a loss of nationalresources
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Fertiliser plant rains toxin on people
A large amount of toxic ammonia, highly soluble in water and released from the country's largest urea producing Jamuna Fertiliser Factory (JFF) at Tarakandi under Sharishabari upazila of Jamalpur district,
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Bhuiyan eyes 80pc support for reforms
Pro-reform leaders of the BNP believe that the councillors will overwhelmingly support the reform proposals while others say the initiative keeping Chairperson Khaleda Zia on the sidelines runs counter
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Curbing political control must for police reform
The Daily Star roundtable told
Speakers at a roundtable yesterday said curtailing political government's control over the police, ensuring facilities to enable the force work lawfully and making it a pro-people organisation shouldbe
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Trial train arrives from Kolkata today
30-member Indian team to come to talk train service with Dhaka
A trial train, carrying a 30-member Indian official delegation, arrives at Darshana station near the border today.
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11 injured in fire at garment factory
A devastating blaze at Envoy Garments Ltd factory in Malibagh Chowdhurypara in the capital yesterday left at least 11 people including two firefighters injured.
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Suicide bomber kills 105 in Iraqi village
Nine more US soldiers die
A suicide truck bomber ripped the heart out of a northern Iraqi village yesterday, killing at least 105 people and demolishing dozens of homes and shops, police and medics said.
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Technical Fault
Biman flyers stuck at ZIA for 39 hours
Some 200 Biman passengers faced untold sufferings stranded at the Zia International Airport as the flight scheduled to carry them was delayed for 39 hours due to technical glitches.
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Govt failed to fulfil people's basic needs
Says Hasina
Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina yesterday said that the government is not being able to meet the basic needs of the countrymen, terming it "unfortunate.
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Musharraf attack linked to mosque siege
Says cleric, claims 70 students killed in fighting
A Pakistani cleric said a bid to shoot down President Pervez Musharraf's plane was apparently in revenge for the bloody government siege of his mosque, in which he alleged that 70 students had died.
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Businessman held, his SUV seized
Patal allegedly sold the vehicle
Joint forces arrested a businessman at his house in Banani yesterday and seized his sport utility vehicle (SUV), which was allegedly sold to him by former BNP state minister for sports Fazlur Rahman Patal.
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Hearing of Lobi's graft case today
Former BNP lawmaker Ali Asgar Lobi, already sentenced to eight years' imprisonment for tax evasion, now faces a graft case along with his detained wife.
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Robbery in guise of Rab
Unidentified criminals in the guise of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members looted cash and gold ornaments worth Tk 4.56 lakh from a house at Hazaribagh of old Dhaka early hours yesterday.
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1 dies, 4 go missing in boat capsize
One person died and four went missing when a boat with 22 passengers aboard capsized in Harinarain Canal under Sunamganj district yesterday. The dead was identified as Ripa Akhtar, 42.
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Venus wins 4th Wimbledon title
Venus Williams won her fourth Wimbledon title yesterday, then basked in cheers on the court that always seems to inspire her best tennis.
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Pope allows wider use of Latin mass
Pope Benedict XVI gave the go-ahead yesterday for greater use of the old Latin mass, signalling a bid to heal a decades-old split in the Roman Catholic Church.
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