Volume 5 Number 73 Sat. August 07, 2004    
 
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'Pichchi' Hannan killed in 'crossfire'
'Pichchi' Hannan, one of the top 23 criminals on police list, was killed early hours Friday, the seventh day of his remand by anti-crime Rapid Action Battalion (Rab), allegedly in crossfire between agang
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9,800 more ill with diarrhoea, Unicef fears epidemic
A diarrhoea epidemic threatens to emerge as 9,823 more people, mostly children, landed in hospitals and another two died from the waterborne disease, health officials said yesterday.
 
Bomb blasts shadow Sylhet in fatal frequency
23 killed in 14 explosions in 7 years
Fourteen bomb explosions in Sylhet region since 1997 have killed 23 people and injured many more, but the attackers go scot-free as the police and other law enforcement agencies have failed to uncover
 
Twin Cinema Blasts
3 injured shown arrested, suspect held
Police yesterday showed arrested three people injured in the twin blasts at two cinemas and nabbed another suspect from Bagbari in the city.
 
Court order fails to make govt pay EC members
Election commissioners are vexed at the government for not releasing their last 13 months' salaries even after the country's highest court ordered it to do so.
 
Bus Arson
Confessor was in cop custody on crime day
Jubo League alleges, accuses govt of masterminding the attack
Shafiqul Islam Kalu, the man who has confessed to the June 4 arson attack on a BRTC double-decker at Dhaka Sheraton Hotel crossing, was in police custody that day, which implicates police in the crime,
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Santosh Gupta Passes away
Eminent journalist, writer and columnist Santosh Gupta passed away at the Ibrahim Memorial Hospital (BIRDEM) at 2.30am yesterday. He was 79.
 
Massive fighting in Najaf
US army kills 300 Iraqis, militia denies, 2 marines killed
The US military said yesterday it had killed 300 insurgents in two days of fierce fighting against Shia Muslim militiamen concentrated in the central holy city of Najaf.
 
Dhaka invites Delhi for meet on joint rivers
Dhaka has invited New Delhi to sit in a Joint Committee of Experts' (JCE) meeting under the Joint River Commission (JRC) in September in Dhaka.
 
Rejoinder and our reply
One Bank Limited (OBL) in a rejoinder to the report titled "7 Banks Under BB Performance Watch" published in The Daily Star of August 4, 2004, said there was no cause for OBL to be bracketed as one of
 
Multilevel Marketing
Robbing with fantasy
Absence of regulator makes the situation worse
In absence of a regulator, multilevel marketing (MLM) companies have robbed thousands of gullible people of crores of taka in the last five years.
 
World oil price hits record $45
World oil prices charged up to new record high levels close to 45 dollars on Friday as fears of disruption to exports from Russia highlighted the market's vulnerability to supply shocks, analysts said.
 
Taiwan to allow Bangladeshi workers by Sept
Taiwan plans to open its labor market to Bangladeshi workers by September at the earliest, the Council of Labour Affairs (CLA) said Friday.
 
Essentials prices spike on deluge
Sharp price hike of essentials since the deluge hit the country has plunged the living standards of the hard-ups in the city.
 
Kerry raps Bush on initial 9/11 inaction
John Kerry said Thursday he would have jumped into action more quickly than President Bush did on Sept.
 
Top criminal held, carbine recovered
Police arrested one top-notch criminal of the district Thursday and his two associates with modern firearms from the city in the early hours yesterday.
 
One dies after arrest by Rab
A Madarassah teacher died from his wounds at Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH) yesterday afternoon, two days after his arrest by the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in the prime port city allegedly
 
100 injured in Narsingdi raid
Over 100 people including women and children were injured when a group of armed hooligans attacked several houses in the shoal areas of Alokbali union in Narsingdi yesterday.
 
Solar System could be 'unique'
The Solar System could be unique amongst planetary systems in the Universe, astronomers have announced.
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