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30 injured as police, RMG workers clash

At least 30 workers of an apparel factory were injured in sporadic clashes with law enforcers in the Shibu Market area at Fatullah in Narayanganj on Monday night. Sources said that the clashes began at... Full story

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HC asks govt to drop martyr’s land from vested property list

The High Court has asked authorities to explain why the land of a man, who sacrificed his life in the war of independence in 1971, would not be dropped from the vested property list. The bench of Justice AHM Shamsuddin... Full story

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Sayedee’s counsel pleads for recalling 3 PWs

The defence counsel for detained Jamaat nayeb-e-amir Delwar Hossain Sayedee on Tuesday pleaded for recalling three prosecution witnesses for further cross-examination. The tribunal, also known as the war... Full story

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Waning popularity makes AL to plot single-party polls: BNP

The opposition chief whip, Zainul Abdin Farroque on Tuesday said the Awami League’s popularity had dropped drastically for its ‘misrule’ and ‘that is why it wants to hold a single-party election’. Full story

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JS panel for saving poultry industry from destruction

A parliamentary body on Tuesday called for taking necessary steps for saving the country’s poultry industry from destruction. The parliamentary standing committee on fisheries and livestock ministry at a meeting recommended... Full story

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30 Unipay officials sued in Ctg

A court in Chittagong Tuesday issued warrants for arrest of 30 top officials of so-called multi-level marketing company Unipay2u including its chairman and managing director. The court of Metropolitan Magistrate... Full story

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ACC grilling Destiny Group chair, three others

The Anti-Corruption Commission is now quizzing four top bosses of the multi-level company Destiny Group about their alleged fraudulence, an official said. A three-member probe team headed by the ACC director... Full story

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545 BCS cadres appointed to colleges

The government has appointed 545 officials who passed the 30th Bangladesh Civil Service examinations under education cadre to various colleges. The education ministry has asked the appointees to join... Full story

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New programmes declared for Rangpur city corpn

Rangpur City Corporation Bastabayan Sangram Committee, as part of their continued movement for the upgrade of the municipality and allocations in the national budget for the region’s development, announced... Full story

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Forces to be upgraded for better peacekeeping: president

The president, Zillur Rahman, has said Bangladesh will take all necessary steps to upgrade the Armed Forces and Police so that they can work in the UN Peacekeeping Missions with more efficiency and better equipment. Full story

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Mojaheed implemented Jamaat’s programmes in 1971: Defence

The defence counsel on Monday opposed indictment of detained Jamaat secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed saying that he was a petty student leader in 1971 and in that capacity he had only implemented... Full story

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Access to info vital for democracy: Mozena

The US ambassador in Dhaka, Dan Mozena, has expressed hope that information and access to information will be essential to the vitality and effectiveness of democracy in Bangladesh. Full story

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Jamaat enforces half-day hartal in Chittagong today

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has enforced a half-day general strike in Chittagong today, protesting at sending of its city unit ameer into jail custody in a case that charged him with setting vehicles alight. Full story

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Food poisoning at college, 75 fall sick

Some 75 people at a college fell sick after they took food bought from a local restaurant at Nageswari upazila in Kurigram. They were admitted to Nageswari Upazila Health Complex. Kurigram civil surgeon Reajul... Full story

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Annie released too

BNP MP Shahiduddin Chowdhury Annie walked out of jail on Tuesday on bail after securing a recall order on court summons in a case with the Dhanmondi police. He was released from Kashimpur Central Jail... Full story

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45 RMG workers hurt in road mishap

Forty-five garment workers were injured in a road accident at Taltoli on Shafipur-Boribari Road under Kaliakoir upazila of Gazipur on Monday. The incident took place when the bus with 45 employees of ‘Apex Garments’ fell... Full story

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Body formed to investigate cop’s extramarital affair

A three-member committee has been formed to probe an allegation into the Goainghat police officer-in-charge, Moksedul Momin’s extramarital relation with a woman. Full story

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MP wants free air tickets

A ruling party lawmaker on Tuesday demanded that the state-run Biman Bangladesh Airlines should offer them free air tickets or that at half price while they travelled on domestic routes. Full story

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ADB to help tackle flood affect

The government on Monday signed a technical assistance grant agreement of $1.2 million with the Asian Development Bank to help sustain incomes and livelihoods of people in the erosion-prone main rivers. Full story

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