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“We have been trying to reach the management and the duty doctors, but they have refused to meet.”
MUKTA
nephew of Khondakar Ali Ashraf, who died at the Central Hospital, allegedly due to negligence of the doctors.

“On the whole, it is a country that needs to receive a start?”
RATAN TATA
chairman, Tata Industries Group
commenting on Bangladesh's track record in contract obligations terming it as excellent, contrary to general perception. "The sooner India, Bangladesh and Pakistan get moving together, the better it is for the region," he says. Tata wants to invest two billion dollars in Bangladesh's steel and engineering sector.

“Sehwag can change the course of a match with the ease of Moses parting the Red Sea.”
AN CHAPPELL
cricket commentator and former captain of Australia
on Indian cricketer Virender Sehwag.

“It was a rampage of looting, just like in Iraq.”
FLEIX KULOV
newly appointed Home Minister of Kyrgyzstan.
The fall of Askar Akayev's government has witnessed widespread looting in this central Asian republic.

“Jhumma people will have no other options but to retaliate because everyone has the right to live like a human being.”
JOTIRINDRA BODHIPRIYA LARMA
leader of Parbatya Chattagram Jono Sanghati Shamiti (PCJSS).
The organisation and its military wing Shanti Bahini laid down arms after signing a peace treaty with the government in 1997. The PCJSS says the present government is not sincere about implementing the treaty.

QUOTATIONS ARE TAKEN FROM DIFFERENT LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWSPAPERS. .
Compiled by: AHMEDE HUSSAIN. Quotes can be sent to <[email protected]>
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