May 19, 2013 | 05:26 PM (BD Time)

19 May, 2013 Sunday

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Opposition must assert inside the parliament or quit

The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party has announced its decision to join the budget session of Parliament beginning on June 3. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the opposition not to b

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Tk. 1075 cr sent abroad

AL bigwigs involved in scam by Bismillah Group

Bismillah Group (BG) has laundered about Tk 1,075 crore from five banks and transferred the money to Dubai, England and Malaysia. Preliminary information suggests that ruling party bigwigs or their re

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Two coal-fired power plant in Ctg planned

Power Development Board (PDB) will set up two big coal fired power plant in different parts of Chittagong district with help of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) JICA has already started

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Fund crunch

ICB in trouble

The Investment Corporation of Bangladesh (ICB) is facing trouble to repay Tk 300 crore loan to the central bank, official sources said yesterday. Bangladesh Bank (BB) has approved the loan to the ICB

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'Go Chinese way'

Garments need big reforms

The era of family run garment factories using workers as private employees is over and a new approach of corporate management is what is now the only way to save the industry, experts at home and abro

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Editors’ joint statement

Editors of 15 national dailies in joint statement on Saturday demanded release of Amar Desh acting editor Mahmudur Rahman, reopening of the daily and withdrawal of the ban on telecasting Diganta and I

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Afghan police chief shot dead

Motorcycle-riding gunmen assassinated a police chief in front of his house after he led an anti-Taliban campaign in western Afghanistan, an official said Saturday. Police Chief Abdul Ghani was leaving

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Khaleda holds meet with party policymakers

BNP chairperson and leader of the opposition Begum Khaleda Zia held an emergency meeting with her party's standing committee members on Saturday night to discuss the country's latest political situati

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53 BNP men taken to DB office after bail

Detective Branch (DB) of police on Saturday picked up 53 leaders and activists of BNP from in front of Kashimpur Central Jail gate after they were freed on bail in vandalism and police assault cases.

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Verdict in Nafis case on May 30

Bangladesh national Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis , now detained in the USA for his alleged plot to blow up the Federal Reserve Bank in Manhattan, is awaiting the verdict which is scheduled to

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Saudi woman makes history by reaching Everest summit

A Saudi woman has made history by reaching the summit of the world's highest mountain. Raha Moharrak, 25, not only became the first Saudi woman to attempt the climb but also the youngest Arab to make

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Residents of Swamibagh area of the city became panicky on Saturday as gas started to blow up from an underground pipeline by replacing the old ones installed recently.

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Absence of CETP at Hazaribagh breach of Environ Law:HRW

Leather goods face wrath

The buyers of leather goods were asked at an international leather goods fair in Italy by a Human Rights group in the first week of last month not to buy leather goods from Hazaribagh, Dhaka, which do

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