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Tax authorities would not ask new taxpayers about their income and would welcome any amount they pay for three years, the National Board of Revenue chairman said on Wednesday.

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The Election Commission has formed a five-member committee to verify the applications from political parties for registration, an official said on Wednesday.

Hundreds of BNP supporters thronged the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman hospital and its fringes at Shahbagh in the city on Wednesday to cheer the imminent release of senior joint secretary general Tarique Rahman, reports bdnews24.com.

Embankment gives in

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The flood control embankment of the Jamuna river gave in at Talukder Para point under Sariakandi upazila in Bogra early Wednesday, leaving four villages inundated, a Water Development Board official said.

Plight of Bangladeshi workers

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Foreign adviser Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury on Wednesday briefed Kuwait's deputy prime minister on the plight of Bangladeshi workers in his country.

Desk Report

Commerce adviser Hossain Zillur Rahman on Wednesday expressed concern over disturbances in the readymade garment (RMG) sector in the wake of violent clashes in Gazipur the previous day.

Says adviser

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From next year, the Water Development Board will be able to forecast floods 10 days ahead of their onslaught, an adviser said Wednesday.

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Results of the 2008 Higher Secondary Certificate and equivalent examinations are to be published Sept 10, Comilla education board chief, Professor M Atikur Rahman, said Wednesday.

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A Dhaka court Wednesday issued an arrest warrant against former Bangladeshi ambassador to the United Arab Emirates Nazimullah Chowdhury for misappropriation of public funds.

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The Election Commission holds talks with top government officials on Thursday over its move to amend laws to register expatriate Bangladeshis as voters, an official said on Wednesday.

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The government has appointed two new vice chancellors to two universities.

Says Zillur

Desk Report

The Awami League will sit with the Election Commission only once on Sept 9, to press home its demands for lifting emergency, holding parliamentary polls ahead of any other and repealing the Representation of the People Order (Amendment) Ordinance.

Frequent power cuts

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Fed-up locals in Narsingdi vandalised local Rural Electrification Board office in Chouhala Wednesday morning to protest frequent power-cuts.

Bdnews24.com

A court has summoned Barisal mayor-elect Shawkat Hossain Hiron and 15 others after a defeated candidate in the Aug 4 polls filed a petition challenging the election results.

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Bourses finished down on Wednesday as investor sell-offs continued from the previous day, leading nearly 70 percent of the traded issues to fall.

AP, NEW YORK -- Oil prices kept falling Wednesday as a stronger dollar and slowing demand for crude overshadowed an almost total shutdown of energy output in the Gulf of Mexico after the passage of Hurricane Gustav.

By Mark Elkington

MADRID, Sept 1 (Reuters/bdnews24.com) - Real Madrid have agreed to sell unsettled Brazilian forward Robinho to Manchester City, the Spanish champions' president Ramon Calderon said on Monday.

"We have agreed to sell the player for human reasons, and for footballing reasons and for an important quantity of money," Calderon told Spanish television station VEO.

Dhaka, Sept 2 (bdnews24.com) — Brigadier general Zakir Hasan, inspector general of prisons, has told bdnews24.com all necessary papers for executing the release of Tarique Rahman have reached his office.

"We are now only awaiting the remainder document only, which may be sent to us any time today (Tuesday). It is possible that Tarique Rahman will be released today provided the last bit of paper work is complete and it reaches us," Gen Hasan said Tuesday morning.

Dhaka, Sept 2 (bdnews24.com) — Tarique Rahman's wife Zobaida Rahman and other visitors left his bedside at BSMMU Hospital around 8pm Tuesday, signalling that the detained BNP leader would not be released on bail before Wednesday.

Inspector general of prisons, Brigadier general Zakir Hasan had said ealrier in the evening that detainees are not normally released if their papers are not processed by 6pm.

Barisal, Sept 2 (bdnews24.com) – S Sharfuddin Ahmed Santu, a defeated candidate in the Aug 4 Barisal City Corporation polls, filed a petition Tuesday challenging the election results.

Judge Oheduzzaman of the 1st Joint District Judge and Electoral Court set a hearing for Wednesday.