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Govt goes to fight gas crisis with Tk 2,500cr
Export issues set aside for discussion later
The government yesterday decided to pump as much as Tk 2,500 crore till 2007 from internal resources into the gas sector to improve the current ominous production and supply.
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Hill tracts turn volatile
Army fights terrorists, hills people protest attack on villages
The situation in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) has turned volatile with the army fighting gunbattles with terrorists in Rangamati.
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Least interest in less interest
BB efforts hardly inspire banks to lower lending rate
Even after a six-month vigorous monetary effort by the Bangladesh Bank (BB) to bring down lending rate, the result has been negligible with banks still charging as high as 14 per cent.
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Rise up to resist gas export
Hasina calls hartal for Sept 25 from Paltan Maidan
Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged all to put up a strong resistance against any move to export natural gas, saying the sale would make Bangladesh bankrupt.
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Panic stalks businesses
Six trade bodies demand special anticrime drive
Expressing deep concern over deteriorating law and order, six trade bodies in a joint statement yesterday urged the government to launch a special drive to improve the situation.
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IMF to release $70m stringed credit by Dec
Mission due tomorrow to assess progress
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will release $70 million second tranche of a $490 million credit under the poverty reduction growth facilities (PRGF) by December if Dhaka fulfils its conditionsby
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Alliance wins Savar polls amid 'rigging'
Elections to the Savar Pourasabha (municipality) were held amid allegations of rigging by ruling alliance yesterday, as the ruling four-party alliance candidate Refat Ullah was unofficially declared winner
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400 fake patient tickets seized at DMCH
3 staff suspended, probe body formed
Four hundred fake tickets were seized from the counter of the Out-Patient Department (OPD) at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) yesterday.
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53 abducted in a month, 11 of them killed
HR report says
Within the past one month at least 53 people, including millionare Jamal Uddin Ahmed Chowdhury, were abducted and 11 of them were killed, said a survey report of Bureau of Human Rights Bangladesh (BHRB).
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JS body to probe slide in order in CHT
The parliamentary standing committee on the Ministry of Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Affairs yesterday decided to find the reasons behind the law and order slide in the CHT.
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Another raid, another flop
Abducted Jamal remains untraced
A combined raid of law enforcers in a remote area of Lakkhichhari upazila in Khagrachhari to rescue abducted billionaire businessman Jamal Uddin Ahmed Chowdhury went up in smoke yesterday.
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Shazneen case
Judgement tomorrow
Judgement on the Shazneen rape case will be given tomorrow.
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Mob kills 2 'robbers' at Patiya
A mob killed two alleged robbers at Shikalbaha in Patiya on Saturday night, raising the lynching death count to 14 in Chittagong in August.The identity of those killed Saturday could not be known.
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Rajshahi NGO director held for 'embezzlement'
Police yesterday arrested the director of a Rajshahi-based credit-oriented NGO on charge of cheating in the wake of the organisation's failure to pay back about Tk 20 crore savings to several thousand
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3 explosives loaded cars missing in Najaf
Iraqi authorities are searching for three cars laden with explosives believed to have entered Najaf, where a double car bomb killed a top Shiite religious leader and 82 other people last week, Iraqi police
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Jatrabari-Gulistan
Bidding process for flyover done
With the submission of the second-phase proposals by short-listed companies, the bidding process for the construction of the Jatrabari-Gulistan flyover completed yesterday.
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Notice
The full page LETTERS scheduled for today has been held up for tomorrow under unavoidable circumstances.
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