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"A voter will have to know that by voting for the corrupt, they will be eating one very good meal, in exchange for going hungry for five years."
Gen MOEEN U AHMED
Army Chief.
“The news could be published on the back page or on any inside page of the newspaper.”

"We are looking into the matter with due importance ... Inshallah, we will be able to resolve it."
FAKHRUDDIN AHMED
chief adviser
about resolving the stalemate over the 6th Wage Board Award for journalists and employees in the newspaper industry.
JAMIRUDDIN SIRCAR
speaker of the parliament
about a report titled 'Sircar drew Tk 28 lakh medical bill ignoring official objection'. Sircar claims he drew the medical bill of about Tk 28 lakh keeping in view some sections of Jatiya Sangsad Act 1994 in good faith and honest understanding of law with an undertaking.

"Poor people are good clients for banking. Their performance is as good and sometimes even better than rich people who borrow from the conventional banks."
MUHAMMAD YUNUS
Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of Grameen Bank.

"She wanted to be a doctor and help poor people and she wanted to have a surgery of her own in Bangladesh."
KHALILS MIAH
a resident of Aberdeen and brother of Shomi Miah.
Seventeen-year-old Shomi died after a nurse at the helpline of NHS 24 told her family to give her painkillers because she probably had flu. The girl later died of meningitis. The NHS 24 helpline is going to sued for £200,000 by Shomi's family members, who plan to use the money to set up a surgery in Bangladesh.

"The government decided in principle to pass the law. We have already a draft on the law in place."
MAINUL HOSEIN
law adviser
saying that the interim government would pass the right to information act..

"Some Bangladeshi batsmen have got good technique and they are also not very bad players against the spin bowling. But the problem is that they are not mentally good enough to cope up with the pressure of Test cricket."
MUTTIAH MURALIDARAN
Sri Lankan cricketer.

Quotations Are Taken From Different Local And International Newspapers.
Compiled by: AHMEDE HUSSAIN

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