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The Daily Star

Your Right to Know
Sunday, February 12, 2012

Metropolitan

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Sagar's last wish

A book stall at Amar Ekushey Boi Mela bears a message expressing grief at the death of Sagar Sarwar, a news editor of private TV channel Maasranga Television, and his wife Meherun Runi, a senior reporter of ATN Bangla, yesterday. Inset, a visitor at the stall holds a book, Colonel Ke Ami Mone Rekhechi, which Sagar wrote and published last year. Photo: Palash Khan

Khandaker Sohel was unable to find something to console himself over the death of his former colleague Sagar Sarowar. Publisher of one of his books, Sohel thinks an unfulfilled desire will haunt him throughout his life.

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CU pro-BNP teachers protest 2 students' killing

CU Correspondent

White Panel, a pro-BNP-Jamaat backed teachers' panel of Chittagong University (CU), yesterday demanded exemplary punishment of those involved in the clash on the campus on Wednesday that led to the death of two students.

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Boat capsize

3 more bodies recovered

Staff Correspondent, sylhet

Three more bodies were recovered from the Surma yesterday afternoon as a boat capsized in the river in Dharmapasha upazila of Sunamganj.

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Suranjit warns against chaos

Staff Correspondent

The government will be forced to take action if the BNP creates anarchy in the name of rally on March 12, warned Railways Minister Suranjit Sengupta yesterday.

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Seven RU BCL men suspended

RU Correspondent

Central committee of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) yesterday suspended seven of its leaders and activists of Rajshahi University (RU) unit for assault on a journalist and other unruly activities on the campus.

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DFID gives 8 vehicles to CRP

Staff Correspondent

Department For International Development (DFID) yesterday donated eight second-hand vehicles to Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP).

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Qulkhwani

Staff Correspondent

Qulkhwani of Sadik Ahmed Rumu, senior marketing manager of Eastland Insurance Company, will be held tomorrow at 66/B in Malibagh Chowdhury Para after the Maghrib prayers.

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Obituary

Staff Correspondent

Dr Rokeya Begum, a former professor of Dhaka University (DU) and sole female clinical psychologist of Bangladesh, died of cancer at a hospital in the USA yesterday at the age of 67, says a university press release.

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Alimun Nessa

Metro Desk

Alimun Nessa, mother of Md Ataur Rahman, senior vice president of public relations department of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited, passed away on Friday. She was 97, says a press release.

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Abdur Rahim Choudhury

Metro Desk

Abdur Rahim Choudhury, eminent cultural personality of Bogra, passed away on February 9 at the age of 73.

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Death anniversary

Staff Correspondent

Today is the third death anniversary of Prof SHK Yusufzai, a former dean of Civil Engineering faculty of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet).

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Nation condemns murder of journalist couple

Staff Correspondent

Citizens from all walks of life and socio-political organisations yesterday strongly condemned the brutal murder of Sagar Sarowar, a news editor of private TV channel Maasranga Television, and his wife Meherun Runi, a senior reporter of ATN Bangla.

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Dr Kamal stresses healthy politics

Staff Correspondent

Eminent jurist Dr Kamal Hossain yesterday stressed the need for establishing a sound and healthy political culture in the country to protect the people's rights and build a repression-free society.

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Victim women more prone to suicide

Experts tell seminar

Staff Correspondent

Suicidal tendency is higher among women victimised by different forms of domestic violence than non-victims, experts said at a seminar yesterday.

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Traffic Jam in Ctg City

'Form monitoring committee'

Staff Correspondent, Ctg

Speakers at a roundtable yesterday urged the government to set up a "Civil Traffic Monitoring Committee" to reduce traffic congestion in the port city.

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Sec 144 continues in Hathazari, 700 sued

Staff Correspondent, Ctg

Section 144, imposed by the Hathazari upazila administration in Chittagong on Friday, remained effective for the second day yesterday to stop clashes between locals over a religious event.

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War Crimes Trial

Hearing on charge framing against Nizami today

Staff Correspondent

The International Crimes Tribunal is scheduled today to hear a charge framing against Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami in connection with crimes against humanity committed during the 1971 Liberation War.

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'BSF chief's remarks to encourage killing'

Staff Correspondent

India's Border Security Force (BSF) will go more desperate and border killing would increase for the recent remarks of the BSF chief that it would never be possible to totally stop firing along border, leaders of some left-leaning parties said at a human yesterday.

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Call to punish reckless drivers

Staff Correspondent

Speakers at a human chain programme yesterday demanded exemplary punishment of the drivers responsible for road mishaps.

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Hathazari Clashes

Arrest of culprits demanded

Staff Correspondent

Different political and socio-religious organisations yesterday demanded the arrest of the people involved in a series of clashes between two groups at Hathazari in Chittagong on Thursday and Friday centring a religious event.

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March 12 Rally

BNP to force govt to step down

Staff Correspondent

BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday said the government would be forced to step down from power through the party's March 12 grand rally.

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War Crimes Trial

Govt under int'l obligation

Says Shahriar Kabir

Ansar Ahmed Ullah, from London

Policymakers of the UK and Europe support the war crimes trial and opined that the government was under international obligation to hold the trial, said Ekatturer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee Executive President Shahriar Kabir.

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Two killed in road crashes

Metro Desk

Two people, including a journalist, were killed and two others injured in separate road accidents in Gazipur and Sirajganj early Friday and yesterday.

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JU pro-AL teachers set counter programme

Staff Correspondent

Pro-Awami League teachers of Jahangirnagar University (JU) yesterday announced a week-long counter programme to defend the university administration from the ongoing movement by a group of teachers, who are opposing the vice-chancellor (VC), to realise their seven-point demand.

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