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Inflation creeps up on soaring food prices
Inflation kept creeping up and reached 11.59 per cent in December 2007 on the back of soaring food prices as the government failed to contain the price spiral in the last one year. Point-to-point inflation was 5.94 per cent in January 2007..[ + ]
NIKO GRAFT CASE AGAINST KHALEDA
ACC begins
questioning officials
The Anti-Corruption Commi-ssion on Sunday started recording the statements of some ministry and govt agency officials in connection with the Niko corruption case filed against the detained former prime minister Khaleda Zia and four others...[ + ]
Hearing in power
plant case against
Hasina deferred
The hearing in the framing of charges against detained former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and seven others in connection with the Khulna power plant installation corruption case was on Sunday deferred till February 7. The special judge's court of M Firoz Alam, set up on the Jatiya Sangsad complex, passed the order as Hasina's counsel sought time for the preparation for the discharge of the petition in the case...[ + ]
ONSET OF RATS WITH FLOWERING OF BAMBOO
Starvation imminent
in CHT as rats have devoured crops
More than 1,00,000 people of various indigenous ethnic groups have been virtually starving as tens of millions of wild rats have eaten up jhum crops in the Chittagong Hill Tracts with the flowering of bamboo plants in the hill forests...[ + ]
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Adviser to discuss price hike today
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Finance adviser not worried about rice price hike
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Some areas face gas shortage
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Chief adviser announces action plan to remove monga
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Honorariums of UP chairman, member doubled
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Delwar rules out idea of national govt before polls
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10 injured as shop owners, police clash in city
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Suicide bombing kills 12 at Colombo train station
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Saif Uddin Ahmed Manik dies
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US wants to see return to elected, civilian govt
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EC won’t announce polls date before Sept: CEC
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Election commissioners call on chief adviser today
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Nepal peace threatened by past rights abuses: UN
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Army headquarters’ response to New Age editorial
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BTRC seeks stakeholders’ opinion on call centre policy
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34 killed in Africa quake
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23,000 fowls culled in Bagerhat, Kushtia
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Headscarf opponents divide nation: Turkish PM
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Iran summons French envoy as relations chill
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Pollock fairytale ends on a high
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18,000 litres stolen fuel oils seized
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Students for withdrawal of BCS quota system
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Towfiq-e-Elahi granted bail
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5 women killed in Chicago store shooting
SEC raises margin loan ratio for
merchant banks
The Securities and Exchange Commission on Sunday re-fixed the maximum rate of margin loan for merchant banks at 1:1 with effect from February 10. ‘We have re-fixed the rate with a view to improving the liquidity situation at the market,’ said Mansur Alam, member of the SEC...[ + ]
Share trading of UCBL kept suspended
The Securities and Exchange Commission has suspended the share trading of the United Commercial Bank over the bank’s annual general meeting related issues, said a senior official of the stock market regulatory body. ‘We have asked the bourses on Thursday to keep suspended the trading of shares of the bank until further communication,’ said Anwarul Kabir Bhuiyan, executive director of the SEC...[ + ]
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IFC to support energy efficiency market
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China expects 500m tonnes of grains output in ‘08
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Aziz asks RAKUB to support N-region development
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Asian currencies up against dollar
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GMG launches flight to Dubai
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OPEC to maintain output at next meeting
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ECB expected to stand firm on rates
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