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Thousands marooned by heavy rains in Bangladesh
CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh (AFP) — At least 20 people have died and more than 20,000 left marooned as heavy rains over the past week triggered landslides and floods in southeast Bangladesh, an official said Sunday. Three landslides caused by torrential monsoon
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Will Bangladesh accord recognition to Kosovo?
It is reported Bangladesh has not yet firmed up its stance on the question of recognising Kosovo’s independence, despite persistent diplomatic presentation by US Ambassador James Moriarty, who met Foreign Adviser Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury on 1st July for the second
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Ranatunga enjoins big Asian countries to help Bangladesh
Karachi, July 5 (PTI) Former Sri Lanka captain Arjuna Ranatunga has adjured the big three teams of Asia –India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka — to help Bangladesh lift the standard of their game at the international level. Ranatunga, the outgoing
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Robbers shoot charity worker
Harriet Alexander and Arjun RamachandranJuly 3, 2008 A Sydney charity worker who lived by the code "bad things happen when good people do nothing" has been shot dead in Tanzania. Darren Stratti, 36, who had professed to having a "strange
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Prices galloping out of control
Triggered by the recent rise in the fuel prices, the prices of essential commodities in the city got a fresh spell of upswing and, according to market sources, it would continue for at least another two weeks multiplying the sufferings
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Population growth for Canberra at 20-year high BY EWA KRETOWICZ
A baby boom and an influx of immigrants boosted the capital’s population by almost 4500 last year. Canberrans may be leaving at the rate of four a day, but the ACT’s population grew to 340,800 an increase of 1.3 per
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এরাই আমাদের 'জাতীয় নেতা' লিখেছেন প্রথম আলো সম্পাদক মতিউর রহমান
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They do not stand for what people do writes Shamsuddin Ahmed
THE political situation in the country is volatile once again as we are going through the process of transition to democracy. I say transition to democracy and not restoration of democracy because the country had no real democracy as such
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Lessons from the Women Development Policy Debacle
Jyoti Rahman gives the rundown on what we can learn from the recent protests against women’s rights As part of a program marking the International Women’s Day, the government announced a National Women Development Policy on March 8. The announced
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Man dead 29 times, but still alive writes Katie Miller
Video: Man died 29 times THE black ‘iron marks’ on his chest have faded but Gold Coast Dani Katz still has a giant scar to remind him there are 29 reasons why he is lucky to be celebrating his 55th
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এনডিসি’র কমাডেন্ট লে.জেনারেল এটিএম জহিরুল আলম অস্ট্রেলিয়ায় হাইকমিশনার
হুমায়ুন কবির খোকন: সেনাবাহিনীর উচ্চপর্যায়ের কয়েকটি পদে গতকাল রদবদল করা হয়েছে। রাষ্ট্রপতি গতকাল এ রদবদলে অনুমোদন দেন। সশস্ত্র বাহিনীর প্রিন্সিপাল স্টাফ অফিসার (পিএসও) লে.জেনারেল মাসুদ উদ্দিন চৌধুরীকে ন্যাশনাল ডিফেন্স কলেজের (এনডিসি) কমান্ডেন্ট এবং চট্টগ্রামের জিওসি মেজর জেনারেল মুবিন চৌধুরীকে সশস্ত্রবাহিনীর
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বাংলাদেশের প্রথম ব্যক্তি হিসেবে শূন্য অভিকর্ষে ভাসলেন এফ আর সরকার
বিশিষ্ট জ্যোতির্বিজ্ঞানী এফ আর সরকার বাংলাদেশের প্রথম ব্যক্তি হিসেবে পৃথিবীর বায়ুম-লের ওপর শূন্য অভিকর্ষের শিহরণ অনুভব করলেন বাংলাদেশ অ্যাস্ট্রোনমিক্যাল সোসাইটির জেনারেল সেক্রেটারি ও বিশিষ্ট জ্যোতির্বিজ্ঞানী এফ আর সরকার বাংলাদেশের প্রথম ব্যক্তি হিসেবে পৃথিবীর বায়ুম-লের ওপর শূন্য অভিকর্ষের শিহরণ অনুভব করলেন।
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Truth commission okayed: Graft suspects may avoid jail by confessing crimes, giving up ill-gotten wealth
The cabinet yesterday approved formation of the Truth and Accountability Commission (TAC), providing corruption suspects with an avenue to avoid imprisonment in exchange for confessions and surrender of their illegally earned wealth or the equivalent amount in cash to the
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Nazrul’s 109th birth anniversary today (25 May)
The 109th birth anniversary of the national poet, Kazi Nazrul Islam, the voice of dissent and revolution whose poems and songs were a clarion call to the oppressed and the indignant, will be observed today. The government and several socio-cultural
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Hundreds of Dhaka University students stay at mosques, corridors, Ex-student leaders occupy a large number of hall seats
Resident students of first and second semesters at Dhaka University (DU) continue to suffer the brunt of seat crisis compounded by a good number of former students still occupying rooms at the halls. Over 1,000 male students have been living
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Straight Line Beckoning of democracy and past failures written by Muhammad Nurul Huda
EVENTS preceding 1/11 and disclosures made thereafter show the banality of evil that has come home to us with a strange poignancy. As a nation we displayed scant concern for public good and few citizens were interested in public welfare.
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Is the visit of President Bush to Israel on 60th anniversary appropriate?
President Bush travelled to Jerusalem to take part in celebrations for the country’s 60th anniversary on May 14th, the day Israel was carved out of Palestinian territory. Mr Bush lavished praise on Israel and barely mentioned the Palestinians in his
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Abracadabra
CONFLICTS and crises are sometimes shadowed by celebrations. Pahela Baishakh was celebrated with much fervour and enthusiasm in Dhaka and in many other places in the country. An annual event for the past few decades, the celebrations pull millions of
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Tahmima Anam of Bangladesh wins the 2008 Commonwealth Writers Overall Best First Book for A Golden Age
Best First Book Winner – A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam (John Murray) Tahmima Anam was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and raised in Paris, New York City, and Bangkok. She comes from a family of writers: her grandfather was a
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Nizami arrested in GATCO hunt
Jamaat Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami was finally arrested last night on graft charges. As police went to make the arrest, several hundred Jamaat leaders and workers gathered around his Maghbazar residence and staged fierce demonstrations amid heavy downpour. When the
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Cross Talk: Our wobbling democracy written by Mohammad Badrul Ahsan
EARLY this month, after an unruly mob torched two launches on the Buriganga, police cases were filed against 30,000 people. Three days after the eruption on Dhaka University campus last August, 42,000 people were charged with disturbance of peace and
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Ground Realities : Our citizens abroad harassed, hounded and humiliated written by Syed Badrul Ahsan
POLICEMEN in Saudi Arabia have been tearing up work-related documents of Bangladeshi migrant workers in that country. And they have been doing that without any thought to the predicament such action can and will cause to these hapless people. That
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