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Russian school siege toll soars to 322
Deaths include 155 children; Putin ordered crackdown to end hostage ordeal
Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday paid his respects to the 322 dead and hundreds of wounded from a horrific battle between security forces and heavily-armed militants holding 1,000 hostages at
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Govt destroying rally bombing evidence: AL
The main opposition Awami League (AL) yesterday accused the government of destroying vital evidence of deadly grenade attacks on its rally to bungle investigation and save the criminals liked to the government.
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Grenade Attack
Interpol looking for common suspects
One with possible link held with arms
Police yesterday arrested a suspect in the August 21 grenade attack on an Awami League rally, while Interpol is busy digging into information about all suspects in the major bomb blasts in the country
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India won't link rivers without bilateral talks
Says minister
Water Resources Minister Hafiz Uddin Ahmad, Bir Bikram, yesterday said India has assured Bangladesh of not implementing its river-linking project without bilateral discussion.
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Counter-terrorism
Top US expert due today
Joseph Cofer Black, counter-terrorism coordinator of the US State Department, arrives in Dhaka today on a two-day trip to talk anti-terror measures with the government.
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Black talks to Indian media on Bangladesh
The United States is keeping a close watch on use of Bangladesh as a potential "platform to project terror elsewhere," said Joseph Cofer Black, State Department's coordinator for counter-terrorism.
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Aziz Supermarket
Cops start digging into blast
Intelligence agencies yesterday started investigations to ascertain whether the two youths injured last Friday in explosion of a bomb they had apparently been making in the office of a non-governmental
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Australia edge past Pakistan
Australia made it three one-day international wins in as many games against Pakistan at Lord's, but the world champions were pushed all the way in a thrilling encounter here yesterday.
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Suit filed against SCBA resolution
A civil suit claiming illegal the resolution of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) on August 29 threatening immediate expulsion of a member for attending the Court of Chief Justice was filed yesterday.
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Bangladeshis not communal
Asserts PM
Prime Minister Khaleda Zia has alleged that a vested quarter is out to damage the country's image at home and abroad through false propaganda.
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Violence flares in northern Iraq
20 killed in suicide car bomb, 25 others in clashes
A suicide car bomb exploded yesterday outside a police academy in Kirkuk, killing 20 including 14 policemen and leaving 36 people wounded, said Dr. Rida Abdullah, head of the Kirkuk general hospital.
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Sheba Telecom sold to Egyptian company
After a long secretive deal, Egypt-based mobile phone operator Orascom Telecom (OT) has bought local operator Sheba Telecom for $60 million -- $50 million in cash and about $10 million in debts it has
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Kashmir peace plans okayed at Delhi talks
Foreign ministers sit today to discuss further
Top Indian and Pakistani officials yesterday approved proposals to break the logjam over Kashmir and strengthen bilateral ties on the eve of a meeting between the rival states' foreign ministers.
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Rab arrests Ctg ward commissioner
Members of the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in a dawn raid nabbed Awami League (AL)-backed Chittagong Ward Commissioner SM Shahidullah with firearms including a revolver at a slum near his house at South
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Khulna UP chairman held for outlaw link
Hujjat Ali, chairman of Amirpur Union Parishad in Batiaghata upazila in Khulna was arrested on Friday afternoon at the office of the Superintendent of Police Habibur Rahman.
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Blast Injury
10 more AL leaders off to India
The Awami League (AL) on its own sent yesterday 10 more of its leaders wounded in August 21 grenade attack on an AL rally, to India for better treatment.
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Email Threat
Suspected sender remanded again
A Dhaka court yesterday placed Saibal Saha Partha, arrested on charge of emailing the daily Prothom Alo with a threat to kill Awami League President Sheikh Hasina, on a three-day fresh remand.
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Trader killed, 2 abducted
A businessman was killed in Meherpur and a farmer was abducted in Jhenidah on Friday night while a Chuadanga college student abducted on Wednesday is still missing.
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4 lawyers jailed
Four lawyers, including Secretary of Bogra Bar Association Golam Rabbani, were sent to jail after their bail prayer was rejected in a criminal case.
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Rab nabs ten outlaws, recovers arms
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) of the Rajshahi region arrested 10 suspected outlaws and recovered arms and ammunition from the village of Salaipur under Gayespur union in Pabna Sadar Upazila in a pre-dawn
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President, PM shocked at Russia incident
President Iajuddin Ahmed and Prime Minister Khaleda Zia yesterday condemned the act of terrorism in southern Russia and expressed their profound shock at the loss of many lives including the schoolchildren"No
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