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EC Unveils Election Roadmap
Voter list by Oct '08, poll by Dec
Parties to register by June, reform dialogue Sept-Nov this year
The Election Commission (EC) yesterday announced its comprehensive plan for holding the next election stipulating that a voter list with photographs will be ready by October 2008 and the parliamentary
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Upazila polls in Nov-Dec '08
City corporation, municipal, UP elections from January
The caretaker government has planned to hold the long due elections to upazila parishads simultaneously with the ninth parliamentary elections next year.
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Jalil might not say goodbye to politics
Talks to media when taken to Labaid Hospital for treatment
Detained Awami League (AL) General Secretary Abdul Jalil yesterday said he himself wrote the much talked about letter to the chief adviser appealing for his release on grounds of his health.
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BB's monetary policy to help check inflation
Says IMF suggesting energy price adjustments
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) yesterday welcomed the Bangladesh Bank's contractionary monetary policy that has taken a lot of flak from different quaters, and said it will help to rein in inflation.
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High-profile Lankan team arrives today
A Sri Lankan delegation comprising five ministers will arrive today on a bilateral visit, with Dhaka likely to focus on ways for Bangladeshi companies to tap deeper into the growing pharmaceutical export
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Costliest power plant starts July 23
Country's costliest power project--the $120 million 70 megawatt (MW) third phase Mymensingh Power Plant of the Rural Power Company Ltd (RPCL)--will start commercial operation from July 23.
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Iajuddin holds office as he flies to S'pore
Despite his absence from the country, Prof Iajuddin Ahmed still holds the office of President as he left for Singapore Saturday night for medical check-up but did not delegate his power to the Speaker.
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Poll Roadmap
AL's Motia not happy, BNP's Ashraf hails
Awami League (AL) leader Motia Chowdhury yesterday said the Election Commission's (EC) roadmap for election is incomplete while BNP Joint Secretary General Ashraf Hossain welcomed the roadmap.
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Mass hysteria affects 7 more students
Seven more students of Adiabad Islamia High School and College in Raipura upazila of Narsingdi fainted yesterday, raising the number of 'mass hysteria' victims at the institution to 84 since Wednesday,
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Rejoinder to commentary on Speaker
The Speaker yesterday sent a rejoinder to the commentary titled "When a Speaker speaks the unspeakable" published yesterday in The Daily Star.
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Twin suicide attacks kill 43 in Pakistan
Suicide bombers killed nearly 70 people in three weekend attacks in Pakistan, police said yesterday, after Islamic militants called for holy war over a deadly army raid on a pro-Taliban mosque.
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Looting case filed against Mahi, Mannan
Liberal Democratic Party (B Chowdhury) secretary general Maj (retd) MA Mannan, Mahi B Chowdhury and nine others were sued yesterday for looting valuables from office of a rival faction.
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Tuku, family indicted for graft
Detained former state minister for power Iqbal Hassan Mahmood Tuku along with his family was indicted yesterday by a special judge's court for corruption.
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Dinkal Case
Khaleda likely to appear in court today
Former prime minister and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is likely to appear before the court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Dhaka today in connection with a case filed for not submitting service return
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Govt to amend umbrella act for universities
Faced with strong criticism from public university teachers and the mass media, the caretaker government has taken initiative to amend the draft of the much talked about 'umbrella act' comprising unified
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Sheikh Selim denied bail
A Dhaka court yesterday rejected bail prayer of detained former health minister and Awami League (AL) leader Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim in connection with an extortion case.
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Bin Laden praises martyrdom in video
al-Qaeda's fugitive chief Osama bin Laden, who has not been heard from for more than a year, appeared in an undated videotape posted on the Internet yesterday, in which he praises martyrdom.
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18 killed in series of attacks in Iraq
Eighteen people were killed in attacks across Iraq yesterday, including at least four civilians who died when a car bomb exploded in central Baghdad, security officials said.
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Two murder suspects flee from lock-up
Two murder suspects who were arrested at Patgram upazila in Lalmonirhat Saturday escaped from a lock-up in Gangachara Police Station in Rangpur the same day. Three policemen were suspended in this connection.
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North Korea shuts Nuclear reactor
A North Korean diplomat said yesterday that Pyongyang is ready to start disabling its nuclear programmes now that it has shut down its sole operating reactor, as long as Washington lifts all sanctions
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