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Twin blasts rock 2 Sylhet cinemas
Street urchin killed, 7 hurt; plastic explosives retrieved from another hall; militant link suspected
Twin near-simultaneous bomb explosions in as many cinemas in northeastern Sylhet city last night killed a 10-year-old street urchin and critically injured seven others, witnesses and police said.
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WFP may call for global food aid Monday
9,617 more ill with diarrhoea
The World Food Programme (WFP) is likely to make a global appeal for food aid on Monday for flood victims ahead of the United Nations 'flash appeal' to the international community for emergency aid to
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Tk 1,500cr lifeline for rural infrastructure
Finance and Planning Minister M Saifur Rahman yesterday directed the ministries to immediately start rehabilitation of flood-ravaged rural infrastructure with the Tk 1,500 crore in repair funds provided
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City lowlanders miss trawlers of survival
Thousands of desperate people in small boats set off for relief trawlers once they come in sight in the hope of finding something for their survival in the lowlands of Dhaka after weeks of devastating
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US helicopter shot down in Iraq
GI, 8 killed in fighting, 9 others in suicide bombing
Eight people were killed and a US helicopter was shot down as US troops battled Shia Muslim militiamen in Iraq Thursday, while a suicide bombing and shoot-out outside a police station left another nine
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Primary education suffers Tk 166cr in flood damage
The floods could cost the primary education sector over Tk 166 crore and the education sector as much as Tk 500 crore in damage to the infrastructure and educational materials, according to preliminary
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Siachen Glacier
India, Pakistan start demilitarisation talk
The defence secretaries of India and Pakistan yesterday held talks in the Indian capital on military de-escalation on Siachen Glacier, the world's highest and coldest battlefield, after a break of seven
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Marooned but not broken
They are very poor, their homes are submerged for weeks, crops damaged in the fields, daily income stopped, and still they are not ready to accept relief.
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40pc Bangladeshis in Britain unemployed
Work visas for them slammed as 'incomprehensible'
A British scheme offering temporary work visas to 10,000 Bangladeshis was criticised yesterday as "incomprehensible" by a conservative think-tank in London that focuses on immigration issues.
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Caught in Arms Training
Only 6 out of 33 Islamic militants charged
Barguna police on Wednesday submitted charge sheet against only six of the 33 alleged Islamic militants who were arrested while taking arms training on June 30, 2004 in Barguna Sadar upazila.
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Ex-UP chairman killed, 10 abducted
Criminals yesterday in two separate incidents gunned down a former Union Parishad chairman and abducted 10 people in the district, police said.
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Woman commits 'suicide', two killed in city
A housewife allegedly committed suicide at Ramna, unknown assailants stabbed dead a youth at Nakhalpara and a miscreant gunned down an illegal passport broker in Dhaka yesterday.
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9 cops die in raid on Kashmir camp
Nine Indian policemen were killed and eight injured in an attack on their camp by one or more Kashmiri militants in the summer capital of insurgency-hit Indian Kashmir, police said yesterday.
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Tin For Int'l Connection
Women phone operators to feel the pinch
The regulatory order that has made submission of tax identification number (TIN) mandatory to subscribe international telephone connection will badly hurt the business of women telephone operators under
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Mild tremor jolts Rangpur region
A mild earthquake jolted different areas in the Rangpur region on Wednesday morning, official sources said.The mild tremor hit Rangpur town for three seconds at 8:15am.
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BDR, BSF agree on quiet border
Bangladesh and India have agreed to take effective measures to defuse border tension and stop all kinds of cross-border crimes.
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Oil prices race higher again
Oil prices resumed their upwards march yesterday as supply fears persisted despite a lifeline for Russian energy giant Yukos and efforts by OPEC to reassure markets it still has spare output capacity.
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