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Diseases spread fast as millions wait for relief
Floodwaters recede further; major rivers still flow above danger marks; city continues to reel under filthy water
Rivers continued to fall in a sign of improvement in the flood situation, but the death count in monsoon flooding mounted as diarrhoea and skin diseases rampaged through new areas, including Dhaka.
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Khaleda, Thaksin Hold Talks
Bodies on expressway, link road agreed
Thailand offers 1,000 MT rice for flood victims
Bangladesh and Thailand yesterday agreed to set up a joint taskforce to start soon the work on the proposed Dhaka elevated expressway.
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Gazipur by-polls tomorrow
Ruling alliance leader BNP and the main opposition Awami League (AL) staged huge showdowns ahead of Gazipur-2 parliamentary by-polls tomorrow.
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'Another flood spell in mid-August'
Yet another spell of devastating flood may hit the country in the middle of August before the recession of current flood waters and linger on for a month aggravating the situation further, experts warned
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Asia Cup final tomorrow
Sourav Ganguly's India go into Sunday's Asia Cup final against hosts Sri Lanka determined to overcome a jinx that has seen them stumble more often than not at the last hurdle of one-day tournaments.
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Petrobangla braces to bleed for gas deal
Petrobangla may be forced to buy gas at a very high price in foreign currency from Bapex's (Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration company's) Feni marginal gas field just because it has a joint venture deal
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Kerry vows to restore 'trust, credibility'
Challenging President Bush by declaring that "strength is more than tough words," Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry plunged into the general election campaign aimed at convincing millions ofundecided
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US troops battle insurgents, 13 Iraqis killed
At least 13 Iraqis were killed and a dozen wounded in overnight clashes between US troops and insurgents in the flashpoint of Fallujah, west of the capital, hospital sources and police said yesterday.
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BIMST-EC summit begins
The first leadership summit of the BIMSTEC group of seven Asian nations representing 1.
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Hasina Alleges
AL men barred from carrying out relief work
Awami Leasgue (AL) President Sheikh Hasina yesterday accused the BNP-led alliance government of failure to face the flood disaster in the country and not allowing leaders and workers of her party to conduct
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Belgian gas pipe blast kills 15
A huge blast on a leaking gas pipeline in Belgium yesterday sent giant fireballs in the air and catapulted bodies hundreds of metres in the biggest industrial disaster in the country's recent history.
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BIMST-EC to be renamed BIMSTEC
BIMST-EC (Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka Economic Cooperation) is set to be renamed 'Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation' (BIMSTEC).
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2 Syrians, 4 Jordanian truckers abducted
Militants threaten to execute Indian hostage
Two Syrian truck drivers were abducted from the same convoy from which four Jordanians were already reported captured this week, one of their colleagues told yesterday's Jordanian press.
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15 lakh weavers face wrath of floods
About 15 lakh weavers are passing their days in fear of financial insecurity, as the handloom industry has become apparently inert since the onset of the floods.
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Saddam says no to biopsy
Blood tests and x-rays carried out by American doctors on deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein have ruled out chances of him suffering from cancer as was reported on Thursday.
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Floods
China, Lanka, Bhutan express sympathy
Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, Sri Lankan President Chadrika Kumaratunga and Bhutanese King Jigme Singye Wangchuck have expressed their sympathy for the flood-hit people of Bangladesh.
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Pakistan captures key al-Qaeda bombing suspect
Pakistan has captured a key suspect in the 1998 Al-Qaeda bombings of two US embassies in east Africa, officials announced yesterday, in a coup that officials and analysts said would weaken the terrorist
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Top Indian communist leader dead
One of the founder members of the communist movement in India, Hiren Mukhopadhaya passed away on yesterday at government hospital here. He was 97.
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DNA pioneer Crick dies
British Nobel laureate Francis Crick, who with American James Watson discovered the double-helix structure of DNA that revolutionized genetics and spawned the ubiquitous field of biotechnology, has died
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