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Women workers’ woes mount abroad

Many female workers of the country working abroad are facing problems including sexual harassment and financial deprivations said rights organizations. The workers often are denied food and drinking water, they said. Full story

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Jamaat calls hartal for today

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has called a half-day hartal in Dhaka and Chittagong cities for today and a dawn-to-dusk shutdown in other parts of the country after being refused permission to hold a rally in the capital on Wednesday. The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party extended support to the hartal programme of its major ally, BNP joint secretary general Ruhul kabir Rizvi told reporters... Full story

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Two owners on two days’ remand

Police on Wednesday took two owners of Smart Export Garment Ltd on two days’ remand in connection with a fire incident that killed seven female workers at their factory on Saturday. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Hasibul Haque granted the remand after the company chairman Sharif Ahmed Salam (50) and managing director Zakir Ahmed (56) were produced before the... Full story

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Ruling coalition MPs blasts Jamaat

Members of the parliament of the ruling alliance on Wednesday came down heavily on the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami for its violence in recent days and called on the new generation to resist any anti-state elements. Full story

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Quader seeks to allay Muhith’s doubt

Communications minister Obaidul Quader on Wednesday differed with finance minister AMA Muhith on the Padma Bridge issue, saying that the construction of the mega project would begin by October even if the World Bank did not revive its funding. Full story

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Tarique serves fresh legal notice to PM

Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s senior vice-president Tarique Rahman on Wednesday served another legal notice to prime minister Sheikh Hasina giving her 15 more days to ‘withdraw’ her ‘false’ and ‘defamatory’ statement in which... Full story

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SSC, equivalent exams begin on Feb 3

The Secondary School Certificate and equivalent dakhil and vocational examinations will begin on February 3. This year 13,03,203 students have registered to take the exams and the figure was 14,20,057 in the past year. Full story

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SQC removes his lawyers

War crimes accused Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, MP, on Wednesday informed the International Crimes Tribunal-1 that he had cancelled the appointment of his lawyers – Ahsanul Huq Hena and Fakhrul Islam. Full story

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AL activists asked to beat off Jamaat-Shibir ‘terrors’

Leaders of the Awami League on Wednesday instructed the party activists to be on guard in every neighbourhood of the capital to thwart terrorist activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir. Full story

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PM says teachers’ rally linked to opposition wrong

The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Wednesday said that the recent rally of teachers for job nationalisation was linked to opposition political camps and termed the movement a wrong step as it was her government that has... Full story

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260 more Jamaat-Shibir men held as drive on

The police continued a countrywide hunt for activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir rounding up about 260 activists till Wednesday morning. On Tuesday, 115 Jamaat-Shibir men were arrested, the police headquarters said. Full story

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Goldstein leaves Dhaka quietly

The World Bank country director, Ellen Goldstein, left the capital on Wednesday night quietly failing to get any chance to say good-bye to the finance minister, Abul Maal Abdul Muhith. A WB official in its Dhaka office said that Goldstein had... Full story

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Thailand sends back over 200 Rohingyas

Thailand’s navy blocked more than 200 Rohingya boat people from entering the kingdom as part of a new crackdown on refugees from violence-hit western Myanmar, officials said Wednesday. Full story

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FBI plans to post permanent reps in Dhaka soon

United States federal bureau of investigation plans to post soon a permanent representative in Dhaka to assist Bangladesh authorities in joint investigative endeavours. Michael S. Welch, FBI assistant director for international... Full story

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Fire at Ashulia training centre, RMG factory

A fire broke out at a manpower training centre at Purba Narshinghapur in Ashulia on the outskirts of Dhaka on Wednesday night while another blaze at nearby apparel factory was quickly doused on the same night. Full story

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ACC summons 27 Prime Bank officials

The Anti-Corruption Commission has summoned 27 officials of the Prime Bank Limited to appear before it for interrogation in a case for the embezzlement of Tk 48.78 crore through fake loans. Full story

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People to give apt reply if polls held unilaterally: Tariqul

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Wednesday warned the government that the people would give a befitting reply to its scheme to hold next elections unilaterally through promoting and posting public servants to various... Full story

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Credit from Moscow to cover 90pc cost

Moscow would provide to Dhaka $500 as credit that would cover 90 per cent of the total cost for the installation of a nuclear power plant at Rooppur at 1.75 per cent interest plus LIBOR, project director Shawkat Akbar told a news conference on Wednesday. Full story

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2 RMG workers come under acid attack

Two apparel workers sustained severe burn injuries as miscreants threw acid on them on Wednesday evening at Darussalam in the capital’s Mirpur area. The miscreants threw acid in the face of Momtaj Begum, 18, and Marium... Full story

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Indonesia keen to cooperate in rly, shipping, defence : says envoy

Foreign minister Dipu Moni on Wednesday stressed on regular holding of the Joint Commission meeting between Bangladesh and Indonesia, establishment of direct air connectivity and finding out new avenues for bilateral cooperation. Full story

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Locals hold demo demanding arrest of killers

Locals held demonstrations at Singair in Manikganj Wednesday morning, demanding arrest and exemplary punishment of the killers of college student Dewan Tarikul Islam Sumon. At a human chain at Charighram Bazar at around... Full story

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20 injured in AL infighting

Twenty people were injured and five vehicles were vandalised in an infighting of the ruling Awami League at Ishwardi upazila in Pabna on Tuesday. The followers of Ishwardi upazila Awami League general secretary Abul... Full story

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Rapist’s father detained in Khulna

The police on Wednesday detained the father of an accused of rape Khulna as the accused went into hiding. Dumuria police officer-in-charge M Moshiur Rahman said that the police picked up Shafiqul Islam Khan, the father... Full story

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SUST business administration dean removed

The Shahjalal University of Science and Technology authorities on Wednesday removed the dean of its business administration faculty, seemingly conceding to the demand of the students. Nazrul Islam, who was removed from the dean’s... Full story

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