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JMB patron Aminul jailed
24 others also handed 31 years behind bars for helping militants
Former post and telecommunications minister barrister Aminul Haque and 24 others were yesterday sentenced to 31 years and six months' imprisonment in the first-ever judgment of a case for patronisingIslamist
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MK Alamgir handed 13 years over graft
A tribunal designed to try the graft cases yesterday sentenced former state minister Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir to 13 years in prison and fined him Tk 10 lakh.
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Dulu given 8 years for arson, looting
88 others including his relatives also jailed
A Natore court yesterday sentenced former deputy minister for land Ruhul Kuddus Talukdar Dulu to eight years in prison for guiding and abetting arson and damage of houses at three villages in Naldanga
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JMB ruled supreme with their blessings
Barrister Aminul Haque, ex-BNP minister sentenced to a 31-year term yesterday, not only blatantly patronised Islamist militants using the police and administration during the BNP-Jamaat-led coalitiongovernment
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Electoral talks with parties to start in September
CEC hopes restructuring of political parties would be complete by that time
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) ATM Shamsul Huda yesterday said the Election Commission (EC) will definitely start holding talks with the political parties on electoral issues in September and hoped
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Fugitive Dipjol gets 17 yrs in arms case
Arrest warrant against Harris Chy
A special tribunal in Dhaka yesterday sentenced Dhaka City Corporation's pro-BNP ward commissioner and film actor Monwar Hossain Dipjol to 17 years' rigorous imprisonment for possessing illegal firearms
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More areas go under flood waters
The flood situation across the country worsened yesterday as heavy rain continued raising the water level in almost all the major rivers including the Jamuna and Padma.
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Justice delivered
With nine bolts and a stainless-steel rod inside his legs and all fingers broken and permanently bent, Fazlur Rahman still suffers the pain but the justice he received yesterday gave him some consolation.
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Go back home, get new job permit
South Korea urges irregular Bangladeshi workers
South Korea has urged the irregular Bangladeshi workers there to return home voluntarily so that they can take advantage of Employment Permit System (EPS), a new recruitment plan for the foreign workers
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Hasina gets a week to submit wealth report
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday extended the deadline by another seven working days for submitting wealth statement of detained Awami League President and former prime minister Sheikh Hasina.
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Bush welcomes roadmap to polls by 2008
US President George W Bush has welcomed the roadmap to general elections in Bangladesh and praised the caretaker government's commitment to hold the elections in 2008.
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Tragic death of a schoolboy
A speeding bus on the wrong side of the road ran over a nine-year-old schoolboy at Kuril on Progati Sarani yesterday killing him on the spot.
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Manju, family sued for graft
Nasim, wife indicted
Two graft cases have been filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) against former communications minister Anwar Hossain Manju, his wife Tasnima Hossain, their daughter Shima Hossain and another person.
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Zillur sceptical about justice
Awami League (AL) acting President Zillur Rahman yesterday said he was unhappy at the way party presidium member Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir has been punished.
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Islamic Economic Forum confce in Dhaka in Nov
Chief Adviser (CA) Fakhruddin Ahmed yesterday welcomed and assured his government's full support for holding the first regional conference of World Islamic Economic Forum (WIEF) in Dhaka November 5-6this
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Army kicks off anti-graft drive in CHT
Bangladesh army launched a new military operation titled "Alor Sondhane" (in search of light) with a view to curb corruption in Chittagong Hill Tracts.
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Teacher shot dead in city
Criminals shot dead a teacher inside the office room of a coaching centre at Kalabagan in the capital yesterday.
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3 cops jailed for mugging
Three policemen and their informers were yesterday sentenced to four years' rigorous imprisonment for mugging Tk 14 lakh from a businessman in August last year.
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Afghan, US forces kill 60 Taliban
22 Korean hostages are still alive
Afghan and US-led forces killed more than 50 Taliban in a 12-hour battle in the country's opium-growing heartland, while ten rebels and a policeman died in separate fighting, officials said.
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50 Iraq football fans killed in car bombs
Insurgents kill 10 policemen
The death toll from two car bomb attacks on Iraqi football fans celebrating their side's Asian Cup semi-final win has risen to at least 50 dead and 90 wounded, according to the US military yesterday.
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Pakistan tests cruise missile
Pakistan said it successfully test-fired a cruise missile yesterday capable of delivering nuclear warheads deep into India.
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