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02 September, 2006
Feeder vessels stop loading: Export, import face severe setback
Foreign feeder vessels operators have suddenly stopped loading of export and import items to and from Bangladesh both in Singapore and Bangladeshi seaports yesterday, a day before the beginning of their planned strike on the Bangladesh-Singapore
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02 September, 2006
BATEXPO begins on Sept 21
A three-day grand exposition of Bangladesh apparels and textile products begins in the capital on September 21 with the organisers expecting substantial numbers of foreign buyers and representatives from leading companies in the annual show. Prime
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31 August, 2006
Death sentence to seven JMB kingpins confirmed
A High Court Bench of the Supreme Court yesterday confirmed the death sentences of the seven kingpens of the banned Jamaat-ul-Mujahedin Bangladesh (JMB), including its leaders Shaekh Abdur Rahman and Siddiqul Islam alias Bangla Bhai, in the
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30 August, 2006
Govt accepts 6-point demands: Asia Energy withdrawn from Phulbari
Government negotiators assured Phulbari demonstrators of accepting all of their six-point demand that includes withdrawal of the UK-based company Asia Energy from the coal-mine project.
The movement committee agreed to call off their indefinite
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29 August, 2006
Protests continue in Phulbari
At least five people were killed and hundreds of others were injured on Saturday when members of the law enforcement agencies opened fire on thousands of local protesters, who were demanding withdrawal of all activities of the Asia Energy from
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25 August, 2006
4 cops, Juba Dal leader killed by extremists
Suspected extremists killed four police and a local jubadal leader, and injured 50 others at a crowded village market at Chowbaria in Manda upazila under Naogaon district Friday evening, police and eye-witnesses said.
After the carnage, the
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22 August, 2006
Bangladesh sets conditions for peacekeepers in Lebanon
Bangladeshi Foreign Minister M Morshed Khan Monday set conditions for sending Bangladeshi troops to act as peacekeepers under the United Nation (UN) if all parties in the conflict accepted it.
In a statement on Monday, Khan said, "Bangladesh's
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