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CA welcomes donors' help to fight flood
Urges businesses to help keep essentials prices tolerable
Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed yesterday said the government will cordially accept spontaneous cooperation from development partners at home and abroad in dealing with the exigencies caused by the raging
 
BB 'corrupt' list includes Tofail, Khoka
Asks banks to report accounts
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has sent a list of 198 corruption suspects to commercial banks directing the financial institutions to submit the account details of those persons.
 
Hasina challenges ACC notice, Noor Ali case
Files 2 writ petitions with HC
Detained former prime minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday filed two writ petitions with the High Court (HC) challenging the legality of the Anti-corruption Commission's (ACC) notice served on her, asking
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Floodwaters Receding in North
39 killed overnight
Thirty-nine people across the country died in the last 24 hours ended at 11:00am yesterday raising the death toll to 120, according to the central flood control room statistics.
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Depleting Groundwater Level
German experience can solve Bangladesh crisis
Managing underground water reservoirs while mining plays the most crucial role in the protection of environment and agriculture and though this issue gets the least priority in Bangladesh, it gets high
 
50,000 tonnes of rice to be imported
Price to be higher than on local market
The advisers' committee on purchase yesterday approved import of 50,000 metric tons of rice from India at a price higher than local market price.
 
CA's address to the nation
Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim
Dear countrymen, Assalamualaikum
Today I have come before you at a time of a serious natural disaster. All areas of Bangladesh have been endangered by a flood today.

 
Leaders ask party men to help flood-hit people
Leaders of different political parties yesterday urged the party men as well as the solvent people to stand beside the flood-affected people.
 
Army saved country from anarchy on 1/11
Says president
President Iajuddin Ahmed yesterday said army saved the country from an anarchic situation on January 11 this year and now they appeared as the driving force in the ongoing anti-graft campaign earningglobal
 
Hasina's wealth might be worth around Tk 2cr
Says her lawyer
Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina's personal wealth is estimated at around Tk 2 crore including Tk 1.19 crore interests from savings, her counsel disclosed yesterday.
 
Govt may relax freeze on Hasina's accounts if family needs withdrawal
The military backed caretaker government's strict regime regarding the freeze on the bank accounts of Sheikh Hasina and her family members might be relaxed in case of an emergency need, said Finance Adviser
 
Floods should not be used for political benefit
Says Mainul
Law and Information Adviser Mainul Hosein yesterday said floods should not be used for political benefit, but welcomed BNP Secretary General Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan's statement to provide relief to the flood-affected
 
Rangs Building
Govt invites bids from demolishers
The government has floated a tender for demolishing the top 16 floors of Rangs Bhaban at Bijoy Sarani in the capital yesterday while three floors of the 22-storied building was partially demolished and
 
3 tax evasion cases against Abbas, wife
Mirza Khokon's properties to be attached
A Dhaka court yesterday issued arrest warrants against detained former housing and public works minister Mirza Abbas and his wife Afroza Abbas in three tax evasion cases filed by the National Board of
 
EC vows not to repeat Sreepur mistakes
Plans big to train up 3 lakh enumerators
The Election Commission (EC) has planned to launch massive training programme for enumerators, who will carry out the most important task of preparing a voter list with photographs, not to repeat themistakes
 
ACC sues Mufti Shahidul, wife
Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday sued former lawmaker and Islami Oikya Jote (IOJ) leader Mufti Shahidul Islam and his wife Nadira begum in connection with illegally amassing properties worth
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Heavy rainfall brings boon to lone croc farm
Although heavy rainfall in the preceding months has brought innumerable miseries for the overwhelming majority of the people, it has been a boon for the country's lone crocodile farm, with its inmates
 
SC lawyer files writ for reinstating Aug 15 as national day of mourning, holiday
A Supreme Court lawyer and two other persons yesterday filed a writ petition with the High Court (HC) challenging a cabinet division order issued during the immediate past BNP-led alliance government's
 
DCC claims success in tackling dengue
Seventy-six patients suspected to be suffering from dengue fever were admitted to different health care centres in the capital last month.
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Despite government's efforts


 
Bus-truck collision kills 9 in Tangail
Nine people, including a woman, were killed and 20 others were injured in a fatal road accident on Jamuna Multipurpose Bridge Link Road at Kalihati upazila in the district yesterday.
 
Tarique sends ACC additional statement
Detained BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Tarique Rahman, who submitted his wealth statement on June 10, yesterday sent a supplementary statement to the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) with additional
 
RU Shibir cadres assault journos
Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS) cadres yesterday assaulted four journalists and kept two of them confined for three hours to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Hall of Rajshahi University when they went there
 
Platinum Jute Mills
200 workers stop working over less wages
Over 200 workers of Platinum Jubilee Jute Mills (PJJM) at Khalishpur in Khulna stopped working from Saturday evening in protest at getting less wages.
 
Wealth Statement
Khaleda's assignment officer sued
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday filed a case against Dr Firoz Mahmud Iqbal, assignment officer to former prime minister Khaleda Zia, for non-submission of his wealth statement within the
 
US troops kill Iraq shrine bomber
13 others killed in Baghdad mortar attacks
US troops killed the al-Qaeda mastermind of the latest bombing at a prized Shia shrine, and at least 13 people died when mortars rained down on their Baghdad neighbourhood, officials said Sunday.
 
New Afghan attacks leave 20 dead
At least 20 people, including six civilians and 10 police officers, were killed in a weekend of violence across insurgency-hit Afghanistan, police said yesterday.
 

 
   
 
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