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11 burnt to death as robbers torch house
Eleven members of a family, including a four-day-old baby, were burnt to death as robbers set fire to a two-storey earthen house in a remote village at Banskali coast, 30 miles off Chittagong city, early
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2 to die, 1 gets life for killing Sgt Ahad
Acquittal of 10 blamed on cop neglect
A court in Dhaka yesterday sentenced two muggers to death and another to life in prison for beating Sergeant Ahad Parvez dead on duty in 1999.
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Bhuiyan invites AL to talk, end JS stalemate
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Secretary General and LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan yesterday invited the main opposition Awami League (AL) to a dialogue to end a five-month-old
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One-sixth of children work
A sixth of the country's children at age 5-17 are engaged in economic activity, according to the National Child Labour Survey, released yesterday.
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Saifur slams survey
Finance Minister M Saifur Rahman yesterday expressed dissatisfaction at Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) for viewing 17-year olds as children in its child labour survey, released yesterday.
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Ex-AC Akram gets 3-month interim bail
A High Court Division Bench yesterday granted three months' ad-interim bail to former assistant commissioner (AC) of police Akram Hussain in the sensational BBA student Shamim Reza Rubel murder case.
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Bush for use of force for peace
Welcomed to Britain with royal pageantry and a smattering of anti-war protesters, US President Bush yesterday defended the war in Iraq, saying military might must at times be used to confront the continuing,
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Road mishaps kill 13 in three dists
Thirteen people were killed and 12 others injured in separate road accidents in Madaripur,Feni and Habiganj yesterday.Of them, six were killed in Madaripur, four in Feni and the rest in Habiganj.
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JP (Ershad) returns to JS
Opposition Jatiya Party (Ershad) returned to the Jatiya Sangsad yesterday on assurance from the ruling BNP that there will be no recurrence of incidents like a deputy minister's remarks against JP lawmakers
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JS session prorogued
The 10th session of the Jatiya Sangsad was prorogued yesterday with the treasury bench requesting the speaker to initiate a fresh dialogue with the main opposition Awami League (AL) on its ending theparliament
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Police look to arrest pop star Jackson
Police who searched Michael Jackson's Neverland ranch amid child molestation allegations were seeking to arrest the pop icon, NBC television said yesterday.
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Russia-drafted road map gets UN nod
The UN Security Council voted unanimously yesterday for a Russian-drafted resolution backing the stalled Middle East "road map" to settle the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Ctg out of touch with world
Telecommunications link between Chittagong and the rest of the world remained snapped from yesterday afternoon till the filing of this report at 7:15pm as road workers cut off an underground line at Mirersarai.
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Experts for more awareness of AIDS
Concerned about the impending threat of HIV/AIDS, experts at a roundtable here yesterday stressed adequate interaction on the fatal disease to effectively deal with a future crisis.
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US to fund $3.5m for CNG set-up
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will provide $3.5 million for the development of CNG (compressed natural gas) infrastructure run by private operators.
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