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Pleasure Trip Turns Sour on The Buriganga
4 drown, 10 missing as picnickers go berserk
Four people drowned and 10 others including a minor girl went missing in the Buriganga after clashes involving two groups of picnickers and Ansars on board a launch at Sadarghat last night.
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C'wealth chief urges Dhaka for roadmap to credible polls
18 months too much time: Hasina
Commonwealth Secretary-General Don McKinnon has expressed his hope that political parties in Bangladesh will play a constructive role in supporting a peaceful environment for the conduct of credible elections.
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Scorching Heat
Rush of patients at hospitals
An outbreak of diarrhoea and other diseases due to the scorching heat of midsummer is causing a huge rush of patients at different hospitals of the capital.
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CNG-run three-wheelers ignore new fare rate
CNG-run autorickshaw drivers in the capital are not following the new fare structure for these three-wheelers alleging that they are forced to pay the owners much more than the government-fixed amount.
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Owner of Gazi Tank picked up from residence
Hasina aide held
Armed men identifying themselves as members of the joint forces picked up Gazi Golam Dastagir, owner of Gazi Tank, from his residence in the city in the early hours yesterday.
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Redwan's property attached
The law enforcers yesterday attached moveable properties of former state minister and LDP presidium member Redwan Ahmed from his house at Matadda village in Chandina upazila.
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Bush no more a most influential man
Time Magazine drops him from list
US President George W. Bush has been dropped from Time magazine's list of the world's 100 most influential people for the first time, in a further sign of his flagging political fortunes.
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12 doped and robbed
At least 12 people, including a Saudi expatriate, were robbed after being drugged in the capital yesterday. All the victims were sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) for treatment.
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Police raids 4 DU halls
Police raided four halls of Dhaka University (DU) early yesterday in search of the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) and Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) men who took part in separate processions violating
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7 JMB men got BRDB loan in Jhalakathi
A high government official yesterday acknowledged that the seven JMB top terrorists who were awarded death sentence received loans from Bangladesh Rural Development Board (BRDB).
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Depression over Bay
The well-marked low over east central Bay and its adjoining areas moved slightly north-northeastwards and intensified into a depression yesterday morning.
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Royal warns of violence if Sarkozy wins
Rightwinger leading in French poll battle
Socialist Segolene Royal warned yesterday that France could slide into violence if Nicolas Sarkozy wins the presidency as the rightwinger extended his poll lead on the final day of the hard fought campaign.
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Labour suffer losses in local votes
Tony Blair, in his last electoral test as British prime minister, saw his Labour Party suffer losses in Scotland and Wales yesterday as results filtered through in local and regional elections.
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Pak-Afghan 'peace jirga' set for Aug 1
About 700 tribal elders, politicians and other influential people from Afghanistan and Pakistan will meet August 1 for a traditional "jirga" on the Taliban insurgency, the Afghan president said Friday.
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Ukraine rivals agree on early elections
Ukraine's President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych agreed Friday to hold early parliamentary elections, signalling an end to a bitter power struggle in the ex-Soviet republic.
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