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Spiralling security
Visitors to the Ekushey Book Fair on Friday had to stand in lines spiralling and stretching both ways from the fair gates, which at one point reached all the way to the Press Club on one side and Shahbag on the other. All this due to the unprecedented security check up at the main entrance of the gates of Bangla Academy. Visitors had to pass through two archway metal detectors, and an additional one set up in the evening, as part of the huge security setup which includes 190 personnel (50 in plainclothes) of the Rapid Action Battalion, hand-held metal detectors, eight Close Circuit Television surveillance cameras, eight mobile teams, in addition to a massive police presence.
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Injured Belal dies in CMH
The Khulna bureau chief of Sangram, Sheikh Belaluddin, wounded in a bomb attack on February 5, died in Combined Medical Hospital in Dhaka on Friday. Hospital sources said the condition of Belal deteriorated further on Thursday. ‘He was declared dead at about 11:00am,’ the Sangram chief reporter told New Age on Friday. After the post-mortem examination at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgue, the body was first taken to the Jamaat office at Purana Paltan...[ + ]
Bangla Bhai: from ‘saviour’ to ‘constant terror’
Followers of the self-styled vigilante leader Bangla Bhai may soon take vindictive actions against those they consider ‘enemies’ of their ‘cleansing operation’, fear many people in Bagmara in Rajshahi district...[ + ]
Int’l agencies eye
Ctg arms haul for
blast probes
Chittagong arms haul is the focal point of international investigation agencies for the investigation of the bomb and grenade blasts in Bangladesh...[ + ]
Police abduction
remains a mystery
The abduction of two police sergeants continues to remain shrouded in mystery as the police investigators were yet ascertain whether they were abducted at all...[ + ]
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Playwright Arthur Miller dies
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Price of rice shoots up further
Price of rice both at wholesale and retail levels continued to rise while that of other essential items including milk, sugar and salt, remained high on the city market last week. Fresh vegetable market has also gathered some heat with early-arriving summer vegetables including okra, bitter gourd, cow pea (barbati) and cucurbitaceous (Jingha) selling at higher prices last week that ended Friday....[ + ]
‘We will make mobile phone cheap and easy’
‘Simple and efficient cellular telephony with the least possible total cost of ownership is what we will stand for,’ Lars P. Reichelt, the new chief executive officer of Banglalink, the GSM operation of Orascom Telecom, tells New Age...[ + ]
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