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Name-only newspapers got big chunk of govt ads
The name-only newspapers received a huge chunk of public money allocated for publishing government advertisements and supplementary during the tenure of the last BNP-Jamaat alliance government.

Information Minister Abul Kalam Azad disclosed it in the parliament yesterday while replying to a query of a lawmaker.

The information minister placed a list before the House that showed that the BNP-led government spent over TK 104 crore during its five-year tenure over the purpose of advertisements in as many as 177 daily newspapers published from Dhaka.
Posted by: Fred 2009-02-06
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