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“There are some gray areas where more needs to be done before we stop it.”
M SAIFUR RAHMAN
finance minister.
This year's budget extends the provision for whitening black money.
"I have not been influenced by any of my party MPs," he claimed.

“How can I have a wife who has another husband?”
HM ERSHAD
deposed president and chairman of a faction of Jatya Party
asked why he divorced his second wife Bidisha

“My daughter is married to a beast.”
ABU BAKAR SIDDIQUE
father of Bidishia Ershad
about his son-in-law Ershad.

“IHe is a vital ardent figure in Bangladeshi nationalism.”
KHALEDA ZIA
prime minister
about the contribution of national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam on his 106th birthday.
Nazrul was born in the Bradhwan district in the West Bengal during the British rule.

“The crisis is over now…he will remain the party president.”
SUSHMA SWARAJ
spokesperson for the Bharatya Janata Party (BJP)
announcing the party's parliamentary committee's refusal to accept party president LK Advani's resignation.
Advani was told either to apologise or to resign for describing Pakistan's founding father Mohammed Ali Jinnah as "a great human being and a secular politician"

“We believe it will help make our cities better places for the public.”
ANDREW DYER
managing director of Stagecoach South
a company that sprays sheep urine into the exhaust fumes to reduce nitrous oxide emissions.
"A bus rigged up with a urine tank has been carrying passengers around Winchester in southern England," a newspaper report says.

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