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Cabinet body talks cross-border gas pipeline today
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs may today decide about a private company proposal to set up a gas pipeline extending from Myanmar via Tripura, India through Bangladesh and ending in West Bengal.
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CHT Peace Accord
Discontent still brews on slack implementation
Seven years after the signing of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) peace accord on December 2, 1997, discontent persists in the region as the government did not fully implement the accord.
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'Crossfire' kills 4
Casualties include Ctg JCD cadre, N'ganj Jubo League member
Four people -- a Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) cadre of Chittagong, a Jubo League activist of Narayanganj, a wanted criminal of Sutrapur and an outlawed partisan of Chuadanga -- died yesterday in 'crossfire'
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Submarine Cable Project
Highest bidder picked violating rule
The submarine cable project sinks into further uncertainty as the telecoms ministry has controversially selected the highest bidder, instead of the lowest one, to install the Cox's Bazar-Chittagong optical
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Rab Crossfire
Treasury bench Silent on AL demand for explanation
Treasury bench members in parliament yesterday kept mum when the main opposition Awami League (AL) lawmakers sought explanation from the government on the killings in 'crossfire' involving Rapid Action
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Moudud rejects HR violation Allegation
Law Minister Moudud Ahmed yesterday brushed aside the allegation of human rights violation by the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab), saying members of the elite force have 'right to defence' when under attack
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Rab raids money exchange firms, seizes Tk 1cr bills
Moneychangers say Tk 3cr taken away, claim money was authorised
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) yesterday raided 11 money exchange firms in Purana Paltan in the capital and seized some Tk 1 crore in what it claimed were unauthorised local and foreign currencies.
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Births, deaths must be recorded
Birth certificates now required for passport, marriage registration, admission to educational institutions
Parliament yesterday passed a bill making registration of birth and death of Bangladeshi citizens mandatory.
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Saarc Summit
Preparatory bodies miss report deadline
Until yesterday, only three out of the 10 sub-committees convened and assigned with specific tasks by the 13th Saarc summit preparatory cell have handed in their progress reports, although the cell wanted
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Tullow strikes gas in block 9
Irish company Tullow Oil along with Canadian Niko Resources and Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration Company (Bapex) have struck a second gas field in block 9 in Bangora, close to Comilla, Tullow announced
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PM calls to free campuses from conflict
Prime Minister Khaleda Zia yesterday urged all to work together to build up an educated nation and keep the campuses free from conflicts and controversies.
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Women's swimming falls victim to bigots
Islamic fundamentalists might have lost a battle in Dhaka a couple of months ago but they came out winners in Chandpur on Tuesday when they stopped women from swimming in the Eighth national long-distance
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200 shanties gutted in Ctg
A devastating fire gutted over 200 shanties of a slum near Central Railway Building (CRB) in the port city yesterday.
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JS adjourned after MP falls sick
Parliament was suddenly adjourned yesterday as a lawmaker fell seriously ill while he was speaking on a call attention notice about the problems of his constituency.
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Philippine storm toll tops 300
The death toll from landslides and flash floods in the eastern Philippines jumped to nearly 340 with 150 others missing Tuesday, after a second rainstorm hit a region still reeling from last week's deadly
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FAO DG flies in today
UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Director General Jacques Diouf arrives in Dhaka today on a two-day visit.
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