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Sadarghat Mayhem
6 more bodies found
Rescue work called off as no one reported missing
Six more bodies were recovered from the Buriganga yesterday, raising the death toll in the Friday night's clashes at Sadarghat to 10.

Hasina to fly in, wait for politics to start
Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina returns home tomorrow with plans for now to wait for the emergency rule and the ban on political activities to go.

Manpower Recruiting
Lax watch leads to cheating
Deception of people by unscrupulous manpower recruiting agencies and brokers in the name of jobs abroad has marked a sharp rise recently in the absence of proper government vigil and law enforcers' inaction

Dhaka to sign Trans-Asian railway deal
The Council of Advisers at its meeting yesterday approved a proposal for signing the inter-governmental agreement on Trans-Asian Railway Network.

Mamun confesses to his, Tarique's involvement in Tk 81 lakh extortion
Detained controversial businessman Giasuddin Al Mamun, a close friend of BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Tarique Rahman, yesterday confessed to a magistrate that Tarique and he were involved in the

Inflation to continue hurting economy
Says BB report
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has projected continuous inflation in the domestic economy due to constant external pressure on prices and demand side.

Drug policy lacks control over price
Experts have urged scrapping the drug policy formulated in 2005 as the policy lacking 'specific price control mechanism' has led to the retail price hike of drugs, much to the suffering of the patients.

Toxic chemical

14 Euro MPs for lifting state of emergency
Fourteen members of the European Parliament have urged the caretaker government to lift the state of emergency immediately and arrange for a free and fair parliamentary election as soon as possible.

Process, timing of Iskandar's selection as BNP VP not right
Says Osman Farruk
Former education minister Dr M Osman Farruk yesterday categorically said the 'process and timing' of making BNP chairperson's brother Sayeed Iskandar a vice-president of the party were not appropriate.

DU finds 24 more cases of forged admission
The Dhaka University (DU) yesterday identified 24 more forgery cases in admission to the Faculty of Social Sciences, pushing the number to 76.

Refusal To Fly Hasina
Legal notice served on BA claiming £1m in damages
Former Bangladesh premier Sheikh Hasina is seeking a million pounds in damages from British Airways for not letting her board a plane home.

Shibir leader held while videoing army camp
Army personnel arrested a Shibir leader while he along with his associate was taking video footages of an army camp in Chapainawabganj on Friday afternoon.

Six rescued from human traffickers
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) yesterday rescued six people including five children from human traffickers and arrested a trafficker at Nabinagar in Ashulia.

Trial of Harris in graft case begins today
A Dhaka court starts trial of a graft case filed against Harris Chowdhury, political secretary to former prime minister Khaleda Zia, in absentia today.

Bird Flu
8,500 chickens culled in 3 Savar farms
Some 8,500 chickens were culled in three poultry farms here Friday evening following detection of bird flu in a nearby farm.

Camel Jockeys
UAE to give compensation to victims
The governments of Bangladesh and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on April 25, under which the UAE government has agreed to compensate all children includingthe

Parties call for lifting ban on indoor politics
Criticising the present army-backed caretaker government for certain activities, leaders of BNP, Workers Party, Bangladesh Jatiya Party (BJP) and Jukto Front yesterday urged lifting the ban on indoorpolitical

Judicial body to probe death of indigenous leader
A one-member judicial commission has been formed to investigate the death of indigenous community leader Chalesh Ritchil reportedly in the custody of the army-led joint forces on March 18.

5 more GIs killed in Iraq
10 army aspirants, 7 cops die in suicide blast
Ten army recruits were killed and 13 wounded on Saturday when a suicide bomber detonated his explosive vest at their recruitment centre west of Baghdad, a security official said.

Kenyan plane crashes with 114 on board
A Kenya Airways passenger plane with 114 people on board crashed yesterday after taking off from Douala airport in Cameroon on a flight to Nairobi, officials said.

France braces for right-left poll showdown
France held its breath yesterday, with just hours to go till the final decision in its most hard-fought presidential election in years.

Dhanmondi roads made one-way from today
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) today will start enforcing one-way traffic on a number of city streets in Dhanmondi residential area from 7:00am to 9:00pm in its effort to ease traffic congestion.