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REHAB, BLDA demand land, matching facilities from govt

Bangladeshi real estate companies and land developers said on Saturday they would invest many time more than India’s Sahara Group to develop housing in the country if the government gave them matching facilities. Full story

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National Committee wants block allocation for power sector

The National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Ports on Saturday at a press conference demanded block allocation in the fiscal 2012-13 budget for the development of the country’s energy and power sector. Full story

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Children’s Vitamin A, de-worming campaign ends

Vitamin A Plus capsules were administered to 220,000,00 children, between six months and five years in age across Bangladesh on Saturday under a nationwide campaign, officials said. Full story

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US fleet coming to Ctg draws protest from Left

Left leaning political parties on Saturday expressed deep concern over reports that the US is sending its Seventh Fleet to Chittagong port. Communist Party of Bangladesh president Manzurul Ahsan Khan and general... Full story

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Odhikar condemns govt failure in stopping enforced disappearance

Rights watchdog Odhikar condemned the failure of the government in protecting the citizens from enforced disappearance and expressed solidarity with families of the victims while observing the International... Full story

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Energy ministry probe body begins work

The committee the energy minister set up to investigate the furnace oil scam of Padma Oil Company Ltd, a subsidiary of the Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation, reached Chittagong and began work on Saturday... Full story

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Body of missing schoolgirl recovered

A village night guard traced the body of a Class V student on Saturday morning in the compound of an abandoned house near her home at a Noakhali village after her parents reported her missing since the previous day. Full story

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Elderly people get together, share feelings in city

Elderly people shared their feelings and told stories of their life at a get together on Saturday arranged for them by an organisation working for the senior citizens. Officials of Bangladesh Association for the Aged... Full story

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Call for strengthening ACC

A two-day anti-corruption conference ended in Dhaka on Saturday with a declaration calling for strengthening the institutional capacity of the Anti- Corruption Commission to fight corruption and forming a unique... Full story

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Opposing Hindu marriage registration law illogical: Suranjit

Terming the demonstrations against the proposed Hindu marriage registration law illogical, Suranjit Sengupta, a minister without portfolio, has said those who are opposing the law are doing that without having... Full story

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Unskilled trainers run driving schools

Training schools for drivers across the capital have one thing in common and that is trainers without institutional education and skill, but they are instructing the new drivers to make them skilful drivers. Full story

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Teesta accord with India soon: Gowher

Prime minister’s international affairs adviser Gowher Rizvi has reiterated that the much-talked Teesta water sharing treaty between Bangladesh and India will be signed soon. Full story

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50 bomb machines destroyed at stone quarry in Sylhet

A joint team of Department of Environment and local administration in a drive destroyed about 50 bomb machines at Bholaganj stone quarry in Companyganj upazila of Sylhet on Saturday. Full story

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Suranjit asks Khaleda, Moudud to quit JS

The minister without portfolio, Suranjit Sengupta, has asked the opposition leader, Khaleda Zia, and the BNP leader, Moudud Ahmed, to resign from their parliamentary posts in the greater interests of democracy. Full story

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EC wants authority for delimitation

The Election Commission will soon send proposals for bringing some reforms in the laws including its authority for delimitation of areas of the local government bodies instead of the ministry concerned for smooth... Full story

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