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  Demand for re-polling as CEC comment causes stir

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 04:12pm on March 10, 2019

  Political parties and governance campaigners on Saturday iterated their demand for re-election saying that chief election commissioner’s remark about ballot stuffing the night before polling proved that the December 30 general election was a faulty one...

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  Sultan takes oath, expelled by Gono Forum

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 11:43am on March 08, 2019

  Opposition Gono Forum lawmaker-elect Sultan Muhammad Mansur Ahmed on Thursday took oath as member of the 11th parliament...

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  AL’s Atiqul wins mayoral by-polls largely ignored

  Ahammad Foyez and M Moneruzzaman | Updated at 02:00pm on March 01, 2019

  Ruling Awami League candidate Atiqul Islam was elected Dhaka north city mayor for about one-year term in the by-elections largely ignored by...

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  Death stalks old Dhaka people at every turn

  Rashad Ahamad | Updated at 03:06pm on February 23, 2019

  Chemical warehouses in residential buildings, power cables and transformers dangerously set very close of houses and vulnerable gas supply lines are the risks amid which old Dhaka people have been living for decades, with no effective steps so far to address the menaces....

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  HC disqualifies river grabbers from polls, bank loans

  M Moneruzzaman | Updated at 12:01pm on February 04, 2019

  The High Court Division in a verdict on Monday disqualified grabbers of rivers, canals and wetlands from contesting local and parliamentary elections. The court directed all...

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  Govt faced with uphill task

  Ahammad Foyez | Updated at 01:45pm on February 01, 2019

  Nowadays, service seekers are bound to give bribes to a section of public servants in government offices even for getting a birth or death certificates as rampant corruption is...

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  DU VC’s speech goes viral

  DU Correspondent | Updated at 01:28pm on January 31, 2019

  A speech of Dhaka University vice-chancellor Akhtaruzzaman at an orientation programme for freshers on Monday at the university’s Teacher Student Centre auditorium went viral...

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  63 people held since October

  Muktadir Rashid | Updated at 02:44pm on January 18, 2019

  At least 63 people, including online and cultural activists and journalists, have been arrested under the Digital Security Act since its coming into being enactment on...

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  Prices of rice rise by Tk 8, lentil by Tk 10

  Moinul Haque | Updated at 01:46pm on January 12, 2019

  Prices of rice and red lentil rose by Tk 8 and Tk 10 a kilogram in the city markets as the prices of the daily essentials kept rising after the...

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  Obaidul admits failure to bring back discipline on roads, transports

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:30pm on January 11, 2019

  Road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader on Thursday said that his main priority during his new term was to bring back discipline in the...