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Volume 4 Number 38

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More surprises at ammo spot
11,050 bullets, 12kg explosives found in Bogra pond
Police and the paramilitary BDR seized 11,050 more bullets and 12 kg explosives from different ditches in Kahalu and apparently established the gunrunners' route yesterday.

Irate Amini decides to resign from JS, but halts at PM's request
Islami Oikya Jote (IOJ) lawmaker Fazlul Haq Amini stepped down from the Jatiya Sangsad yesterday over strained relations with the government but put off the decision until today upon a request from the

Brother-in-law to walk gallows for killing Don
A tribunal yesterday sentenced to death the brother-in-law of Don for killing the five-year-old child.

The convict, Mohammad Ripon, 20, has also been fined Tk 50,000.

Five additional judges of HC get job confirmation
Five additional judges of the High Court Division of the Supreme Court were confirmed yesterday as permanent judges.

President Iajuddin Ahmed confirmed them under Article 95 (1) of the constitution.

Police still to net killer driver
Even after 35 hours, police failed to find the whereabouts of the car driver who knocked down a doctor from his motorcycle and dragged him to death.

Cache was meant for smuggling?
Police and intelligence forces are working on a theory that the huge ammunition and explosives recovered from Bogra were actually meant for smuggling, sources said.

News analysis
Arms Smuggling: too dangerous to mishandle
Ninety-three thousand bullets and 180kg explosives can have only one utility: to kill and maim in hundreds and thousands.

Govt cancels diplomats' visit to Bogra last minute
In a move that puzzled some diplomats, the government invited a select number of diplomatic missions to visit Bogra to see for themselves the ammunition cache seized in the last few days.

Hill waters test flood protection embankments
Onrush of hill water from across the border and continuous rain make the flood protection embankments in different places vulnerable.

WB sees budget slowing trade opening pace
Too many unapproved projects to lead to thinly-spread allocations
The World Bank has said the budget for this fiscal has duty measures that will slow down the pace of trade liberalisation that picked up last year.

Iron bumpers to be taken off cars
Communications Minister Nazmul Huda has directed the traffic department of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police to remove extra iron bumpers from all vehicles in the capital, to start with.

Ershad, Toab Khan sued; arrest warrant against Janakantha editor in another case
A case was filed yesterday against former president H M Ershad and Advisory Editor of the Daily Janakantha Toab Khan.

Don's parents Satisfied with verdict
Satisfied with the judgement, Don's parents hope that it will act as a deterrent to killing of children, while Ripon, the convict, finds 'no ground to hang him'.

Agitating Biman Employees stops flights for 4 hrs
Agitating Biman employees barred flights from taking off at the Zia International Airport (ZIA) for more than four hours following arrest of four fellow officials.

14 Hizbut Tawhid men arrested in Jhenidah
Fourteen activists of an Islamic organisation named Hizbut Tawhid were arrested at Harinakundu in Jhenidah on Wednesday, police said.

Mirabazar double murder case
All accused acquitted
All the nine accused in the sensational double murder that took place at the house of a businessman at Mirabazar area in the city 28 months ago were cleared of charges owing to the absence of sufficient

Match factory staff burnt to death
A female employee of a match factory was burnt to death and another injured in a fire at the factory premises at Karimullahbagh in Shyampur yesterday.

Shazneen case
Simin again cross-examined
A prosecution witness in the Shazneen case and elder sister of the victim, Simin Hossain, was cross-examined again by defence counsels yesterday.

Five arrested in connection with Pubali Bank robbery
Police yesterday arrested five people including three women in connection with the sensational June 25 robbery at the Aotapara branch of Pubali Bank at Iswardi upazila in the district.

City crime
'Muggers' held, youth stabbed, boy hurt
Sutrapur police arrested two alleged muggers yesterday after opening fire on them when they were mugging rickshaw passengers at Natun Rasta in Sutrapur.