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Huge arms haul in CHT
Antiaircraft machine-gun, rocket launcher in Khagrachhari cache
Army seized a high-profile haul of firearms and ammunition, including an antiaircraft machine-gun and a rocket launcher, in a raid on a haunt of terrorists deep into a forest in Khagrachhari Sunday night.
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Moscow fire kills 32 foreign students
7 Bangladeshis, 4 critically, hurt
A fire, possibly caused by an electrical fault, swept through a Moscow dormitory early yesterday, killing 32 foreign students and injuring 139 others, including seven Bangladeshi students, officials in
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7 more die of dengue fever
337 affected since April
Seven more patients died of dengue fever until November 24 out of a total of 337 people affected since April this year across the country, officials at the Directorate of Health Services said yesterday.
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Cabinet trimming on the cards
The government is planning to downsize the cabinet after the Eid-ul-Fitr in an effort to restore people's confidence in the administration, highly placed sources in the ruling BNP said.
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Eid delicacies get dearer this year
People of the middle and low-income brackets have to dig their purses deep to relish Eid delicacies this year as the prices of most essentials needed to serve them on the platter have gone up as highas
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5 US troops killed in Kabul copter crash
A US combat helicopter carrying troops on a nighttime mission crashed outside an American military base near the Afghan capital Kabul Sunday, killing at least five soldiers and injuring seven others in
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Ahmedul Kabir passes away
Ahmedul Kabir, a pioneering media personality and the chief editor of the Daily Sangbad, died at 81 from old-age complications at a Kolkata hospital yesterday.
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Jamal's family doubts fresh ransom letter
The family of abducted Chittagong magnate Jamal Uddin Ahmed Chowdhury yesterday doubted the senders of a letter demanding a hefty ransom for his release while police said they were scanning it.
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OC closed in Khulna on graft charge
Police Headquarters has closed officer-in-charge (OC) of Mollarhat Police Station and sent to Bagerhat Police Lines for unauthorisedly releasing a listed criminal.
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Dhaka dismisses Delhi's Assam violence blame
A foreign ministry spokesman yesterday termed the allegation by Indian Northeast Affairs Minister CP Thakur that Bangladesh was responsible for the current spate of violence in Assam "totally baseless,
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Set slow loris free right away
Urges leading zoologist
The critically endangered nocturnal primate, slow loris, caught and kept in a cage at the deputy commissioner's house in Bandarban, should immediately be released back into the wild for its survival,a
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15 indicted in Gujarat massacre
A local court in Nadiad taluka of Gujarat on Monday convicted 15 persons guilty for the massacre of 14 Muslims during the post-Godhra communal riots in Ginjar village in Ghodasar area on the outskirts
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BB circulates new notes
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has circulated new notes of various denominations to the tune of Tk 566 crore to meet the huge demand for new notes ahead of Eid.
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AES's power plants transfer deal okayed
The government yesterday approved the transfer deal between American power company AES Corporation and UK-based CDC Globeleq on the ownership of AES's two major power plants involving about US$ 500 million
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Film-maker Sheikh Niamat passes away
Eminent film-maker Sheikh Niamat Ali died of a cardiac arrest at the BIRDEM hospital here yesterday morning. He was 63.Family sources said he was undergoing treatment for kidney ailment at the hospital.
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Body of listed criminal found
Body of a listed criminal, who also happens to be a workers' leader, was recovered at Chanmari ferryghat in Labonchhara of Khulna yesterday.
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Holiday
The offices of The Daily Star will remain closed for three days from today on the occasion of the Eid-ul-Fitr. Therefore, there will be no edition of the newspaper on November 26, 27 and 28.
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