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Musharraf escapes second attempt in 10 days
14 killed, 18 wounded as suicide car bombers strike Pak president's motorcade at site of first attack
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf narrowly survived a second assassination bid in less than two weeks yesterday when suicide car bombers attacked his motorcade, killing themselves and at least 12 others.
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5 children found dead in water tank
It was a fatal day out for babies. A water tank of an under-construction building proved a death trap for five playmates, all below 7, in Uttara yesterday noon.
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191 die in China gas blast
At least 191 people were killed and hundreds poisoned when a natural gas well in southwestern China erupted and released a plume of toxic fumes, medical workers, officials and state media said yesterday.
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Christmas observed
The Christians in the country celebrated Christmas yesterday with due religious fervour and gaiety as elsewhere in the world.
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Rockets shower on Baghdad on Xmas
2 hotels, Turkish, Iranian embassies among hit
Anti-American guerrillas yesterday sent more than a dozen rockets and mortar rounds slamming into Baghdad on Christmas Day, hitting hotels, embassies and the vicinity of the US-led occupation authority
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Air France flights cancelled amid terror fears
Intelligence warnings of possible terrorist plots to use aircraft against American targets yesterday prompted cancellation of six Air France flights between Los Angeles and Paris and triggered intense
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Opposition's UP meet hits snags
Parties pursue separate lines of anti-govt actions
An opposition-sponsored convention of Union Parishad (UP) chairmen and members scheduled for January has become uncertain as political parties seem inclined to carry on with their separate anti-government
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Dhaka wastes choke Trimohoni
Mayor's promise to change situation remains unmet
Despite promises by the government and the city mayor, the people of Trimohini are still suffering from health-threatening water pollution in the Narai river area.
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PM plans to shed her squabbling staff
Prime Minister Khaleda Zia is planning to replace half a dozen officials at her office who are divided into two sharp blocs and engaged in a war of attrition in an effort to make the administration dynamic.
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Horror too real to be true
The Rahman family was at the end of its tethers to take in the news of the recovery of bodies of their children -- Sonia and Jamil -- from a water reservoir, after having lost another child only three
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Rejoinder and our reply
The Power Development Board (PDB) in a rejoinder yesterday to a Daily Star report headlined "Tk 7, 600 crore pillage at PDB since 1971" said the parliamentary standing committee on the energy and mineral
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Five ansars linked to Shibir's bomb making
Five ansars yesterday appeared in court on count of abetting Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS) activists in making handmade bombs in an abandoned residential hotel in Khulna city.
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AL leader killed in bomb attack
A prominent shrimp trader and a front-ranking Awami League leader, was killed in a bomb attack at 3:34pm yesterday in front of a private clinic where he went to visit his ailing wife.
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Convict on the run gunned down
Armed assailants gunned down a convicted criminal in the Advocate Habibur Rahman Mondol murder case at Dhalkanagar in Shyampur yesterday, following a dispute with other members of his gang.
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Rivals kill 3 outlaws in Pabna
Three underground operatives were hacked to death following a gunfight with their rival party men at Borobeel Hatirgara village under Faridpur upazila of the district yesterday morning.
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Over 60 die as Boeing crash off Benin
A Boeing passenger plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean just after takeoff in the West African country of Benin yesterday, killing over 60 passengers, witnesses and airport officials say.
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3 killed as bus runs over them in Ctg
Three persons were run over and killed by a bus on Arakan Sarak (Chittagong-Cox's Bazar highway) at Padua in Lohagara upazila of the district yesterday.
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BNP-backed CBA defies BB order to relocate office
The ruling BNP-backed collective bargaining agent (CBA) of Bangladesh Bank (BB) remains indifferent to the authorities' instruction to relocate its office from the bank's main building to its annexe.
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JU students withdraw hunger strike
Students of Jahangirnagar University (JU) Wednesday night withdrew their fast-unto-death demonstration after 37 hours, as the JU authorities and JU Teachers Association (Juta) reached a consensus on resumption
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