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Monday, November 9, 2009

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Low bridge to obstruct Turag traffic

14 letters of complaints from river authorities ignored as unauthorised housing project of bureaucrats needs link with Tongi-Ashulia bypass

Pinaki Roy
The LGED continues building this Bailey bridge on the Turag to connect Tongi-Ashulia bypass and a housing project -- Pratyasha -- violating the Dhaka Master Plant. Once built, the bridge will impede river traffic. Photo: Anisur Rahman

The Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) ignoring objections by Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) continues constructing a low bailey bridge, which, once built, would obstruct traffic movement on the Turag river.

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2 outlaws held with 8 bombs

Our Correspondent, Kushtia

Police arrested two top cadres of outlawed Gono Bahini and recovered eight powerful bombs from Shantidanga village in Sadar upazila yesterday night.

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Mehnaz sent to jail

Another nephew of Huda held

Staff Correspondent

A Dhaka court yesterday sent to jail Khandaker Mehnaz Rashid, eldest daughter of Bangabandhu murder convict Lt Col (retd) Khandaker Abdur Rashid, in a case filed in connection with the bomb attack on Awami League lawmaker Fazle Noor Taposh.

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Spot orders slip at Batexpo

Star Business Report

Spot orders at the just-concluded 20th Batexpo declined from last year, due to global recession, said BGMEA President Abdus Salam Murshedy yesterday.

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Transport strike

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US fire kills 3 Bangladeshis

Star Report

Three Bangladeshis were killed and four injured in a fire in the basement of a house in Queens in New York City early Saturday.

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Anti-Taliban mayor among 12 killed in Pak bombing

Troops kill 20 militants in offensive

Afp, Peshawar/ Islamabad

A suicide car bomber struck near a busy cattle market in Pakistan's Peshawar city yesterday, killing 12 people including a former Taliban supporter turned anti-militant mayor while 20 militants were killed in ongoing offensive in northwest, police said.

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Obama wins big on healthcare bill

House passes his trillion-dollar plan to overhaul health system

Afp, Washington

The US House of Representatives has approved the broadest overhaul of US health care in four decades, handing President Barack Obama a hard-fought victory for his top domestic priority.

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'Extraordinary' skeleton of woman from early Bronze Age found

Ani, Washington

An "extraordinary" skeleton of a woman, who lived in the early Bronze Age, was found buried in a seated position, during an archaeological survey before the planned construction of a high-speed train track in central Germany.According to a report in National Geographic News, the woman's skeleton was found near the town of Bad Lauchstadt and is one of several burials found so far during the dig, which runs from September 2008 to June 2010.

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Rebels 'down' Yemeni plane as battle rages

Afp, Jizan

Shiite rebels said yesterday they shot down a Yemeni combat aircraft on the Saudi border nearly three months into a widening war between the insurgents and government forces.

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Kids with 'tough love' upbringing 'do well in life'

Ani, London

Children who are raised with 'tough love' by their parents are likely to do well in life, a new report has found.

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US, Indian Embassies

LeT men planned to hit before hajj

Kailash Sarkar

Three Pakistani nationals, still holed up in Bangladesh, targeted the US Embassy and Indian High Commission in Dhaka for attacks before hajjas part of a Lashkar-e-Taiba's plan, said detectives yesterday.

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SC Hearing Day 25

Moshtaque was key plotter

Attorney general tells SC

Ashutosh Sarkar

Khandaker Moshtaque Ahmed was the most-heinous betrayer, hypocrite and deceiver in the history of the world as he conspired to kill the father of the nation under whose shelter he was doing politics, the attorney general (AG) told the Supreme Court yesterday.

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Railway asked to recover its land from Mirza Abbas

Rashidul Hasan

A parliamentary committee yesterday asked Bangladesh Railway to recover about four acres of land near Kamalapur Railway Station which it said was "grabbed" by former housing minister and BNP leader Mirza Abbas.

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Anti-crime drive counts more on unwanted means

M Abul Kalam Azad and Hasan Jahid Tusher

The present government believes, like its predecessors, that "crossfire", "encounter" and "gunfight" are effective means to combat criminals, especially outlaws, home ministry sources said.

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Aug 21 Attack

Delwar blasts govt for 'bid to defame BNP'

Staff Correspondent

BNP Secretary General Khandaker Delwar Hossain yesterday alleged that the government is making a 'heinous attempt to destroy BNP' by using the August 21 bomb blast incident.

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Tax Evasion Case

Bashundhara's out-of-court settlement bid rejected

Unb, Dhaka

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) didn't accept the appeal of Bashundhara Industrial Complex Ltd for negotiating their tax-evasion case outside court, as the company's owners have already been convicted while on the run abroad.

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Aug 21 Attack

CID identifies 2 Huji men

They helped grenade throwers flee spot

Kailash Sarkar

The Criminal Investigation Department has identified two Huji leaders who helped the August 21 grenade-throwers flee the scene in a white microbus.

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Education Policy

Islamic bodies raise some objections

Nothing anti-Islam will be there: Nahid

Staff Correspondent

Terming secularism irreligious, Islami Shikkha Rakkha Jaitya Committee, a forum of Islamic organisations, yesterday said most pious Muslims in the country are concerned about some issues in the draft education policy.

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Strike on waterways goes on as talks fail

Staff Correspondent

The water transport strike that began Saturday midnight across the country continues, as the government and transport workers have yet to reach an agreement.

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AL men set fire to BNP office at Lalmonirhat

Rafique Sarker, Rangpur

Activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League and Jubo League yesterday set fire to the BNP office at Lalmonirhat over assault of a BCL leader by Chhatra Dal activists.

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Outlaw killed in 'shootout'

Our Correspondent, Jhenidah

A central leader of outlawed Biplobi Communist Party (Haque Group) was killed in a 'shootout' between his cohorts and police at Defolbaria village in Sadar upazila here early yesterday.

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War Crime

Tribunal starts functioning in 2 months

Staff Correspondent

State Minister for Law Quamrul Islam yesterday said the War Crimes Tribunal will be set up at the Administrative Tribunal Building at Abdul Gani Road, close to the secretariat, and the trial will start in next two months.

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