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Investors clash with cops as stocks dip |
| 4 / 12 / 2007 |
| Hundreds of investors took to the street in front of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) building clashing with police yesterday after the key index had lost 83 points on the Dhaka bourse around noon. |
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Delhi allows Dhaka to import |
| 2 / 12 / 2007 |
| New Delhi has decided to allow export of its rice to Bangladesh for five lakh more tonnes Dhaka earlier sought from donors and next-door neighbours to ensure food security after cyclone Sidr that struck Bangladesh on November 15.
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Huji cadres attacked poet Shamsur in \'99 : Mufti Hannan tells interrogators |
| 30 / 11 / 2007 |
| Mufti Abdul Hannan yesterday told interrogators that Huji operatives had attacked late poet Shamsur Rahman with intent to kill him on his orders about eight years ago. |
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Return to pre-1/11 confrontational politics will be catastrophic: EC Ambassador Frowein tells newsmen: Donors’ response to food aid request encouraging |
| 29 / 11 / 2007 |
| Donor countries are actively considering the government\'s request for 500,000 tons of food assistance to recoup food shortage caused by the cyclone SIDR.
British High Commissioner Anwar Choudhury and European Commission Head of the Delegation Ambassador Dr Stefan Frowein have separately assured Bangladesh in this regard.
Addressing a view-exchange meeting with journalists at his residence yesterday Anwar Choudhury said they are looking into the matter urgently. \"We are looking into the request with urgency,\" he said. |
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Saudi Arabia alone to give $100m :22 countries, EC, UN pledge $200m |
| 29 / 11 / 2007 |
| Twenty-two foreign countries, the European Commission and the United Nations have so far pledged US$ 200 million for the cyclone Sidr-affected victims of Bangladesh.
The countries and development partners which have pledged and provided aid in cash and kind for the cyclone victims are: Saudi Arabia ($102.763m), Japan ($18.47m), USA ($13.64m), Kuwait ($10m), UK ($10m), EC ($9.08m), Netherlands ($7.20m), UN CERF ($7m), Norway ($3.35m), Canada ($3.40m), Australia ($2.75m), Belgium ($2m), Italy ($1.52m), Germany ($1.44m), Sweden ($1.28m), India ($1m in cash and relief), China ($1.05m), Spain ($1.08m), Libya ($1m), Switzerland ($0.16m), Pakistan (relief goods and two shipload of coarse rice), Turkey ($1m), Korea ($0.50m), Sri Lanka ($0.025m) and Thailand ($0.015m). |
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Musharraf quits army |
| 29 / 11 / 2007 |
| An emotional Pervez Musharraf stepped down as Pakistan’s army chief Wednesday, bowing to global pressure to end eight years of military rule a day before he becomes a civilian president. |
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2 more Huji men held for link to Aug 21, Ramna blasts |
| 28 / 11 / 2007 |
| Police yesterday arrested two wanted Harkatul Jihad Al Islami (Huji) operatives in the city for their suspected links to the August 21 grenade attacks on an Awami League rally in 2004 and Ramna Batamul blasts in 2001. |
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First run of US copters in southern coast: UN report: It will take 3 months to supply immediate relief assistance |
| 27 / 11 / 2007 |
| The sufferings of thousands of survivors of cyclone in southern districts mounted yesterday as rescuers struggled to get food and water to stricken villages in remote areas.
US Navy helicopters began delivering emergency supplies to survivors in a joint relief operation, officials said.
Helicopters from the US battleship USS Kearsarge delivered dry food and bottled water to thousands of hungry and exhausted families living in remote areas of Dublar Char, Bagherat and Barguna, the worst affected districts.
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Meet on Bangladesh-US Jt relief operation: US plane arrives, more teams due |
| 27 / 11 / 2007 |
| coordination meeting on conducting Bangladesh-US joint relief operation in the cyclone-hit areas was held Monday at the Army Headquarters, where the American side offered to extend all-out cooperation in the humanitarian task.
\"During the meeting, U.S. and Bangladesh officials agreed on plans to increase delivery of aid to the cyclone-affected regions in the coming days,\" said a US embassy spokesman |
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1,400 sacks of fake fertiliser seized from underground factory |
| 26 / 11 / 2007 |
| Joint forces busted an underground factory and seized about 1,400 sacks of spurious fertiliser from Ataikula
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