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Article: BANGLADESH NEWSPAPER HIGHLIGHTS - OCT 29, 2009.
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- October 29, 2009
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DHAKA, Oct 29 Asia Pulse - Highlights of today's newspapers:
THE DAILY STAR:
- Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said her government plans to construct elevated and underground railways, flyovers, orbital waterways, and circular roads in and around the capital to ease traffic congestion and to solve transport problems.
- A parliamentary body yesterday asked the government to cancel the machine-readable passport (MRP) project and introduce electronic passports instead to save public money.
- The current account surplus crossed the $1 billion mark in the first two months of the current fiscal year due to falling import and surging ...