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V-Day celebrated
Jubilation overshadowed political turmoil yesterday as the nation celebrated the 35th anniversary of victory in the nine-month Liberation War in 1971.
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'Informal' move initiated to revive package proposal
Iajuddin to request ECs to go on leave only when BNP, AL agree
A few advisers to the caretaker government have re-initiated negotiations with the two major political alliances about recasting the Election Commission (EC) in line with the advisory council's package
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Tax exemption facilities misused to make profit
BB study finds welfare organisations encouraging graft
A number of welfare organisations in Bangladesh misuse tax-exemption facilities by operating profit-driven programmes that do not serve any socio-economic goal but encourage 'corruption-based activities',
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Show of alliance strength
Khladea, Hasina to give poll guidelines from city rallies
BNP-led four-party alliance and Awami League (AL)-led 14-party coalition are set to show off their strengths as both the alliances will hold grand rallies in downtown Dhaka.
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Thousands in Kamrangirchar left off voter roll
"Please register my name on the voter list," Sekandar Ali (65), a resident of ward no 5 in Kamrangirchar in the capital requested The Daily Star correspondent mistaking him for a field level ElectionCommission
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Ershad's Conviction
JP calls hartal in 5 northern dists today
Jatiya Party (JP) enforces a dawn-to-dusk hartal in five districts of greater Rangpur today protesting the High Court verdict on Thursday that sentenced JP Chairman HM Ershad to two years' imprisonment
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80 hurt as parties clash on V-day
At least 80 people were injured as BNP, Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir activists clashed with Awami League (AL) and its student front Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) men in
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CPJ concerned at attacks on journalists
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) sent a letter to President Iajuddin Ahmed on Friday asking him to do everything in his power to ensure that threats and assaults against journalists are investigated
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Mushrooming brickfields threaten hill air, farming
Authorities turn blind eye to environmental rules violation by owners
Mushrooming brickfields in Khagrachhari with the connivance of corrupt officials of different government departments concerned pose a serious threat to the environment and agriculture in the entire region.
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Hill Cutting
2 buried alive in Ctg
Two persons were buried alive and 10 others injured when a huge chunk of earth fell on them during illegal hill cutting in Chandanaish upazila yesterday.
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Nepal parties, Maoists okay draft constitution
King to have no right in state affairs
Nepal's ruling alliance and Maoist rebels yesterday approved the draft of an interim constitution, a key step to implement their landmark peace deal ending a conflict which has killed thousands, negotiators
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Abbas calls for early election in Palestine
Hamas slams it as 'coup d'etat'
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas called for early presidential and parliamentary elections yesterday, prompting the ruling Hamas movement to accuse him of staging a coup d'etat.
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Bhutan's king abdicates
Hands power to son
The king of the remote Himalayan country of Bhutan has abdicated in favour of his Oxford-educated son, a royal official said yesterday, stunning the tiny Buddhist nation.
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Chavez denies Castro cancer claim
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has dismissed suggestions that Cuban leader and ally Fidel Castro has cancer, but said he was fighting a serious illness.
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India missed chance to resolve Kashmir row in 1972
Says Advani
Senior BJP leader L K Advani yesterday maintained that India had lost an opportunity to resolve the Kashmir issue in the wake of the surrender of more than 90,000 Pakistani troops in the 1971 Bangladesh
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Zambian U-turn on protests ban
The Zambian government has withdrawn a ban on all political gatherings just hours after it was announced. It now says political parties are free to hold rallies according to the law.
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US health advisers suggest restricting antibiotic
Benefits of an antibiotic linked to rare reports of severe liver problems, including several deaths, outweigh its risks in treating pneumonia but not less serious bacterial infections like bronchitisand
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