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Guard's murder inside carriage
Trains grind to halt as staff go on strike
Train service was totally snapped across the country for seven hours till 3:00pm yesterday when railway employees went on a wildcat strike, protesting the murder of a guard on a train in Chittagong, allegedly
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Indian river-link plan
Experts for data for future action
Local water experts want Bangladesh to gather all technical and hydrological data for a future course of action after India's giant river-link project was included in the agreed minutes of the just-held
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Lawyers' boycott cripples courts
Lawyers yesterday boycotted courts countrywide to press their six-point demand, including repeal of the amended Civil Procedure Code, bringing judicial activities to a near-stop.
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24 of 28 docs shunted out for absence
DG health surprised at surprise visit to NICVD
Barely a week after a World Bank report said 74 per cent doctors do not attend duty, the director general (DG) of the health directorate in a surprise visit to the National Institute of Cardiovascular
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Most hold BNP posts without mandate
From party chief to district-level leaders, most are holding the ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) posts even after expiry of their tenures, violating the party's constitution that requires elections
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Marshall arrives early today to persuade Hasina
Govt ready to let leader of the opposition speak on the first or last day of the meet
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) Secretary General Denis Marshall arrives in Dhaka this morning ahead of schedule in a last-ditch bid to persuade Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasinato
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Police club teachers' procession, 50 hurt
At least 50 teachers were injured, of them five critically, when police clubbed a procession of Bangladesh Shikkhak Karmachari Front (BSKF) near the Doyel crossing yesterday.
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Schoolgirl takes life to escape teasing tirade
A schoolgirl allegedly committed suicide to escape the trauma due to persistent sexual harassment and a recent death threat by a local punk at Lalitadaha under Kotwali Thana in Jessore on September 25.
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Judge took cash to fix bail, alleges Rokan
Supreme Court Bar Association President Barrister Rokanuddin Mahmud yesterday accused an additional judge of the High Court Division of bringing the profession to disrepute by taking money to influence
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Two more US troops killed in Iraq
A US soldier died Tuesday from a "non-hostile gunshot wound" in a camp north of Baghdad while the body of another servicemen was pulled from a canal west of the capital, the US military said yesterday.
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Durga Puja begins
Durga Puja, the greatest religious festival of the Hindus, got off to a colourful start with the unveiling of the images of the goddess in every Puja Mandap yesterday.
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Two DCC engineers sued for doctoring document
The Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) has filed a case with Ramna Police Station accusing two of its engineers of tampering with documents containing the mayor's decision on making waste containers, sources
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Kurigram waits to welcome abducted Arifa
Locals at Fulbari upazila in Kurigram and relatives of two-year old abducted Bangladeshi girl Arifa are eagerly waiting for her quick homecoming following an order of a Kutchbihar court in West Bengal
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BDR denies press reports on push-in
The Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) yesterday said there was no incident of push-in along the Nilphamari border, contradicting press reports that a push-in bid by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) on Tuesday
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Nobel Prize season kicks off today
The 2003 Nobel Prize season gets underway today with the announcement of the winner of the Literature Prize and ends eight days later with the Peace Prize, as speculation mounts over who will take home
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