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A Rapid Action Battalion member runs a metal detector over meals meant for the accused at a Dhaka court on Tuesday. — NEW AGE PHOTO
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‘Brainwashed youths ready to lay
down their lives’
Intelligence agencies are apprehending more Jhalakati-like bombing attacks after a member of the suicide squad of the Jamaatul Mujaheedin bombed two judges to death on Monday. The banned Islamist outfit, Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh, is capable of carrying out bombing attacks in the country at any time, using the suicide squads it has formed recently, the agencies fear...[ + ]
Joint operation planned to mop up militants
The home ministry on Tuesday asked law enforcers to root out the members of the suicide squads of the banned Islamist outfit, Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh, which is blamed for carrying out frequent bombing attacks in the country...[ + ]
Lenders give govt a
year to clean up act
The World Bank, International Monetary Fund and the Asian Development Bank on Tuesday asked the government to address pervasive corruption, poor governance and financial sector reforms within a year...[ + ]
TENGRATILA BLOWOUT
Govt to ask Niko for 3bcf gas as compensation
The government will ask Niko Resources, an international oil company, to provide three billion cubic feet of gas for free as compensation to the gas burnt in Tengratila gas field. The company will also be asked to pay about Tk 76 crore in cash for environmental damages for the two blasts at the gas field...[ + ]
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Madrassah principal, 12 others held
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Armed bodyguards for judges’ security
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AL, allies, CPB find govt link with judges’ killing
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Saifur slams lenders for fund delays
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Saifur suddenly feels insecure
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Condolence on Enayetullah Khan’s death
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Prime accused in Ctg arms haul sent to jail
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Judges’ funerals held in Jhalakati
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Sri Lanka officials gear up for vote after tense campaign
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Time bomb recovered
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Threat to blow up Patuakhali judge court
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Jalil gets bail
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Newspaper owners seek security at offices
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One killed in ‘crossfire’
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Juba League calls hartal in Khulna
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BBC finds Bangladeshis family oriented
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SAARC expansion widens co-op beyond region: Japan
Pakistani investors eye local textiles sector
A nine-member delegation of Pakistani textile manufacturers arrives in Dhaka on November 19 to hold ‘substantive’ talks to invest in Bangladesh’s backward linkage industries for readymade garments sector. During their four-day visit to Bangladesh, Pakistan’s high-profile textile makers representing leading companies, are scheduled to meet with ministers, officials concerned and business leaders of the sector...[ + ]
Notes in circulation up
Notes in circulation along with issued amount increased marginally at the end of the third week of October from levels of end-September. Statistics available with Bangladesh Bank revealed that as of October 20, notes in circulation stood over Tk 21,198.06 crore, higher by Tk 753.82 crore from the amounts of end-September...[ + ]
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BGMEA for a separate garment ministry
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Gary Lye appointed as Asia Energy COO
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Pilot project for rural maintenance programme
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‘US-China trade gap a longstanding issue’
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Summit Power begins trading at the bourses
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President urges Kuwait to invest in Bangladesh
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1st int’l pvt sector dev research paper competition
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US Trade Show 2006 from Feb 8-10
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APEC wants EU compromise on global trade talks
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Developing nations must budge on trade: WB
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Bush for bilateral FTA plans in Asia
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US investors mull growth areas as bird flu looms
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IMF boosts financial aid to Niger
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Mass labour protest hits Australia
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