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Come monsoon, come city road-digging
Like in every monsoon, road cutting in different areas of the capital has been stepped up by utility service providers and mobile phone companies apparently competing with each other, causing immensesufferings
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Living on dangerous slope
Over 50 thousand people living in different foothill slums in the port city are under serious risks of falling an easy victim to landslides, especially during the rains.
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Hasina wants reforms deeper than her party leaders do
As demands for reforms grow louder within Awami League (AL), its President Sheikh Hasina wants to delve deeper into the issue, going beyond what some of her senior party leaders have recently come upwith.
 
Cheated, they toil in Malaysia
Bangladeshi workers not getting actual salaries for greed of recruiting agencies, outsourcing companies
Thousands of Bangladeshi workers are living inhuman life in Malaysia due to unemployment and underpayment because of cheating by the recruiting agencies in Bangladesh and the outsourcing companies inMalaysia.
 
Laws, role of locals must to conserve forest
Observes regional workshop
Participation of local community and amendment to laws of colonial times are essential for efficient management and conservation of forests, said conversation and legal experts and social activists of
 
Hasina's Cases
AL leaders plan to hire lawyers from abroad
Senior Awami League (AL) leaders are planning to bring in lawyers from abroad to provide legal aid to party chief Sheikh Hasina during the trials of the two extortion cases filed against her as the Anti-corruption
 
Security relaxed at Sudha Sadan
The government yesterday relaxed the tight security around Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina's residence Sudha Sadan at Dhanmondi in the city.
 
Tigers fly out for Colombo
A 15-member Bangladesh cricket team left Dhaka last night to play their third full series in Sri Lanka.
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Taking water illegally


 
Evacuation of people from foothills starts
Chittagong district administration yesterday started evacuating people living close to hills or in foothill slums to different parts of the city to avert further land or mud slide casualties.
 
3-yr National Hajj Policy okayed
The regular weekly meeting of the Council of Advisers yesterday approved a three-year National Hajj Policy, aiming to remove the problems of hajj management.
 
Lightning kills 5
Five people were killed and two others injured by lightning in Bogra and Sirajganj districts yesterday.
 
Arafat's home looted
Fatah men storm parliament; Hamas tightens grip on Gaza
Hamas cemented its control over Gaza yesterday, seizing weapons from the routed security services of their Fatah rivals, as the home of iconic leader Yasser Arafat became the latest target of lootingin
 
8 women rescued at ZIA
Immigration police at Zia International Airport (ZIA) yesterday rescued eight women allegedly from being trafficked to Kuwait on artist visa.
 
13 firearms, ammunition seized
The law enforcers seized 13 firearms and ammunition from Cox's Bazar and Sunamganj districts yesterday.
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Banned three-wheelers to be sent to rural areas


 
3 journos held in Khulna
The joint forces arrested three journalists and a businessman at Dumuria upazila headquarters under Khulna district yesterday.
 
Woman dies from 'wrong treatment'
A patient died allegedly due to wrong treatment at a private hospital at Mohammadpur in the capital on Friday night.
 
Ctg Tragedy
2 committees start probe
The two probe committees formed to investigate Monday's devastating mudslides that left 126 people dead in the port city launched its field-level work yesterday by visiting affected areas of Lebu Bagan
 
Five shot dead in restive Thai Muslim south
Insurgents killed five people in separate shootings in Thailand's restive Muslim-majority south, police said yesterday.
 
US launches offensive around Baghdad
The US military, which just days ago completed its latest troop buildup in Iraq, has launched a large offensive operation in several al-Qaeda strongholds around Baghdad, the top US commander said Saturday.
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Sandbagged


 
Lebanese army unleashes barrage of shells on camp
Lebanese troops unleashed an intense artillery bombardment on Saturday against positions of Islamist fighters who have been holed up inside a refugee camp for almost a month.
 
N Korea invites UN nuke inspectors
North Korea yesterday sent a letter to the UN nuclear watchdog, inviting inspectors to the country to discuss procedures for shutting down its main nuclear reactor, state media reported.
 
Thousands of Thais in anti-junta rally
Thousands of supporters of ousted Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra braved rainy skies and an enormous security deployment yesterday to protest against the junta that deposed him.
 
300 villages flooded in Bihar
Heavy rains in the past 48 hours have flooded at least 300 villages in north Bihar districts of Muzaffarpur, Sitamarhi and Darbhanga, local media reports said yesterday.
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Rainwater


 

 
   
 
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