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Sidr-hit Sundarbans healing itself fast |
| 5 / 1 / 2008 |
| With awe inspiring swiftness nature has already started regenerating Sidr affected Sundarbans, attracting local and foreign tourists again. |
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Rice prices stable after steady rise; Poor queue up at BDR shops whole day |
| 4 / 1 / 2008 |
| The price of rice and edible oil remained stable yesterday while people of low income waited in long queues at the BDR-run fair price outlets in the capital to buy rice. |
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Govt\'s food security not satisfactory; Crop loss, poor procurement lead to paltry 2.54 lakh tonne food grain stock |
| 4 / 1 / 2008 |
| The government\'s present stock of rice and wheat is 2.54 lakh metric tons less than that of October last year mainly due to production losses in natural calamities and price hikes on the international market. |
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Govt finally wakes up to soaring rice prices; Decides to introduce OMS outlets, asks donors for food grains |
| 3 / 1 / 2008 |
| Prices of rice continued to increase yesterday and the government decided to introduce open market sale (OMS) outlets across the country and ask donors to provide food grains as aid instead of money. |
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Chief adviser urges NRBs to help materialise dev goal |
| 30 / 12 / 2007 |
| United News of Bangladesh . Dhaka
The chief adviser, Fakhruddin Ahmed, has urged the non-resident Bangladeshis to pay heed to the motherland’s call for help in materialising the nation’s cherished development goals through concerted effort.
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Militants, Benazir aides allege cover-up; Pak govt says no to int\'l help in probe; crisis may delay Pak polls; India suspends train service |
| 30 / 12 / 2007 |
| A militant group said yesterday it had no link to Benazir Bhutto\'s killing, dismissing government claims as a bitter dispute erupted over how the opposition leader was killed.
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Stolen Artefacts; Motive unknown, main culprit untraced still |
| 30 / 12 / 2007 |
| A week after two Vishnu statuettes were stolen from Zia International Airport (ZIA), law enforcers are yet to find out the motive behind the theft, their destruction and trace Abbas of \"Abbas-Nasir\" gang, a ZIA-based group who apparently had the artefacts stolen.
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Thousands join funeral procession in Larkana: Benazir buried beside father’s grave: Pakistan in turmoil: Banks ransacked: Trains, buses and cars burned: Dozens killed in violence a |
| 29 / 12 / 2007 |
| enazir Bhutto was buried on Friday in her family mausoleum after the opposition leader\'s assassination plunged Pakistan into crisis and triggered violent protests across her native Sindh province.
Tens of thousands of mourners wept and beat their heads as Bhutto, killed by a suicide attacker at an election rally on Thursday, was carried from her ancestral home in Sindh, in the south of the country, to the domed mausoleum.
The death of the 54-year-old Bhutto stoked fears that a January 8 election meant to return Pakistan to civilian rule could be put off, although caretaker Prime Minister Mohammadmian Soomro said there was no change in timing for now |
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Violence erupts in Pakistan |
| 29 / 12 / 2007 |
| Shoot-on-sight orders issued, Al-Qaeda claims responsibility for Benazir killing
Agnce France-Presse . Karachi
Rioting and political violence following the assassination of former Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto has killed 32 people, according to a toll from several officials across the country on Friday. |
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Mad rush for home |
| 21 / 12 / 2007 |
| With the Eid-ul-Azha only a day away, thousands of city dwellers are braving a lot of troubles to go back to their village homes to celebrate the second biggest religious festival of the Muslims with their near and dear ones. |
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