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Sylhet mayor held on graft charges
The police arrested Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) Mayor Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran at his residence in the city's Chhararpar area early yesterday.
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Decaying old scripts
A large number of old and valuable books including handwritten scripts are getting damaged in the old building of Woodburn Public Library at Edward Park in Bogra town while the government department concerned
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Global warming to hit poor countries hard: UN report
Nearly a third of world's species faces threat of extinction
Climate change is set to inflict damage in every continent, hitting poor countries hardest and threatening nearly a third of the world's species with extinction, UN experts warned yesterday.
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Huda sent to jail on expiry of remand
BNP leader and detained former communications minister Nazmul Huda was sent to jail yesterday after he was produced in a Dhaka court on expiry of a four-day remand in a money laundering case.
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CC World Cup 2007
SA challenge for Tigers
Bangladesh will desperately try to bury their wretched start to the Cricket World Cup Super Eights when the competition resumes after a two-day break with the Tigers facing serious title contenders South
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Asia at risk of floods, drought and disease
Asia faces a heightened risk of flooding, severe water shortages, infectious disease and hunger from global warming this century, the UN's top climate panel said yesterday.
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Unskilled Job Seekers Abroad
High migration cost, low wage cause of woes
The benefit of migration has plummeted for unskilled workers from Bangladesh in recent years damaging the economic base of their families, according to findings by studies, experts, and returnee migrants.
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Khulna JP chief freed after interrogation
Former Jatiya Party (Ershad) lawmaker and president of the party's Khulna city unit Sheikh Abul Hossain was picked up by the joint forces early yesterday and released after questioning.
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2 top Khulna criminals held in Uttara
Two criminals, who were sentenced to death in Awami League mayoral candidate SMA Rob and Khulna Chhatra League leader Tutul murder cases, were arrested in Dhaka at midnight on Thursday.
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Nor'wester lashes 2 districts
Nor'wester lashed Chandapara village in Kendua upazila, while lightning killed two people at Atpara upazila of Netrakona district early yesterday.
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Allocate more money to raise health awareness
Roundtable in city told
Speakers at a roundtable yesterday said the health sector of the country should be allocated more money for raising health awareness including health education and disease preventive training as the sector
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11 job seekers sent back home from Dubai airport
Eleven Bangladeshi job seekers were forced back home from Dubai Airport in the United Arab Emirates yesterday due to their faulty passports, visas and other documents provided by different travel agencies.
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Expat poisoned by 'muggers' dies at DMCH
A Saudi expatriate poisoned by alleged muggers died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) yesterday morning. The deceased, Muktar Hossain, 38, was flown to Dhaka from Jeddah early hours of Thursday.
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Heroin seized from inside bicycle tyre
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) seized 925 grams of heroin in eight packs from inside the tyre tubes of a bicycle near Old Bus Stand area in Chapainawabganj yesterday.
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Chlorine truck bomb kills 27 in Iraq
A suicide bomber exploded a truck full of chlorine near a police station killing at least 27 people in the restive western city of Ramadi yesterday, police said.
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Pak tribesmen storm al-Qaeda bunkers
20 more killed in battles
Pro-government tribesmen stormed key bunkers occupied by foreign al-Qaeda militants in a Pakistani frontier zone early Friday, leaving around 20 people dead, security officials said.
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Saarc car rally reaches Mumbai
The Saarc Car Rally-2007 on Thursday reached Mumbai, the commercial capital to India, after covering over 8,050 kilometres roadway in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan and India.
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