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WB loan cancellation regrettable: TIB

The World Bank’s cancellation of the $1.2 billion credit as part of the $2.9 billion Padma bridge project is deeply regrettable, embarrassing and disappointing, Transparency International Bangladesh said on Saturday. Full story

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Attack ‘by AL men’ for toll halts construction work

Earth filling work for the Sylhet Central Jail came to a halt following an attack by the ‘ruling party’ activists, leaving two people injured at Badaghat in sadar upazila of Sylhet on Friday night. Full story

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BAPEX hopes gas in another Srikail well

The state-run energy exploration company, Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company, better known as BAPEX, has said that there are chances of finding gas reserves in an experimental well at Srikail in Comilla. Full story

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DU turns 91 today

The University of Dhaka, which began functioning on July 1, 1921, will celebrate University Day today as it turns 91. The university started with 3 faculties, 12 departments, 60 teachers, 877 students and 3 halls of... Full story

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Indefinite bus strike in Khulna from today

Transport workers called an indefinite bus strike in all routes of Khulna from today demanding ban on plying of illegal shallow engine-driven vehicles on highways. Khulna District Bus-Minibus-Coach Owners’ Association... Full story

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Stalker jailed

A mobile court in Faridpur sentenced a young man to one-year jail on Saturday, convicting him of stalking a schoolgirl. Raju Mia, 20, of village Shohosrail of Boalmari upazila, received the punishment for sexually... Full story

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106 new anthrax cases reported in one month

A total of 106 cutaneous anthrax cases have been detected at different places of the country’s northern and western regions in one month. Of the anthrax cases, 38 were detected in Ullapara, six in Belkuchi, 28 in... Full story

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Six killed in Jossore accident

Local people blocked road and damaged vehicles in protest at the death of six people in a road accident at Keshabpur in Jessore Saturday morning. At least six passengers were killed and six others were... Full story

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938 families to get ownership of Bhashantek flats

The government has decided to give ownership of flats at under-implementation ‘Bhashantek Rehabilitation Project’ to 938 families residing there without approval. The 938 low-income families have been... Full story

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Banglabandha land port to resume soon: Tuku

The state minister for home affairs, Shamsul Haque Tuku, has said the Banglabandha land port in Panchagarh will resume soon. ‘We have already discussed with the Indian authority to reopen the Banglabandha land port. Full story

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Obaidul warns against graft in Bangabandhu Bridge toll collection

The minister for communications, Obaidul Quader, has warned of taking stringent measures against corruption and irregularities in the collection of toll of Bangabandhu Bridge in Sirajganj. Full story

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3 killed in city

At least three people were killed in three incidents in the capital on Saturday. At Mirpur, a minor boy allegedly committed suicide at his house at Mollapara of Monipur on Saturday morning as his parents... Full story

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UP office put under lock and key by ruling party men

Local ruling party activists on Saturday allegedly put the Laharkandi union parishad office in Sadar upazila of Lakshmipur under lock and key after failing to get share of UP’s money. Full story

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Death anniv of Fazlul Karim Mazumder today

The second death anniversary of Fazlul Karim Mazumder, former vice-principal of Commila Victoria College, will be observed today after Asr prayer at his residence in Comilla’s housing estate. Full story

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Fired Saudi embassy staff held in capital

A Dhaka court on Saturday remanded a sacked Saudi embassy staff for six days in police custody in a case filed for threatening a diplomat with death recently by sending text message. Full story

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Mojifa Khan dies

Begum Mojifa Khan, mother of professor AF Mohiuddin Khan, chief ENT surgeon of Japan Bangladesh Friendship Hospital, died from a heart attack at 5:45am on Saturday. Her first namaz-e-janaza will be held at Hajaribag... Full story

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Retrenchment of 900 garment workers protested

Garments Sramik and Shilpa Rakkha Jatiya Mancha on Saturday protested at the retrenchment of over 900 workers of a garment factory by Sinha Group. The workers were dismissed from a garment factory of... Full story

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5 more held for killing of schoolboy

Five more people were arrested on Saturday in connection with the killing of a minor boy during an exchange of fire between two groups of miscreants at Paschchim Dholaipar in the capital’s Shyampur on Friday night. Full story

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DSHE to install 32 CC cameras to ‘curb corruption’

The Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education will establish 32 closed-circuit cameras at different important points of its main building ‘to lessen harassment of teachers’ who come to the directorate for various... Full story

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Humayun Ahmed under close observation

Celebrated writer and playwright Humayun Ahmed has been kept under close observation at Manhattan’s Bellevue Hospital as his condition failed to improve. Mazharul Islam, owner of the Onno Prokash, told the... Full story

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JUCSU, VC panel elections as soon as possible: JU VC

The Jahangirnagar University vice-chancellor, M Anwar Hossain, on Friday said elections to the Jahangiranagar University Central Students Union and the vice-chancellor panel in the Senate would be held at the... Full story

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Illegal facilities sealed in city, fake doctor, 8 others jailed

A mobile court of Rapid Action Battalion in the capital on Saturday sent to prison three women and six men, convicting them of cheating patients with fake medical treatment and diagnostic services. Full story

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Japan trusted friend of Bangladesh: PM

The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, has said Japan is a great friend of Bangladesh and the people of Bangladesh attach great value to the friendship. She said this when visiting chairman of Japan Bangladesh Society... Full story

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2 held for harassing garment worker

The police arrested two youths for allegedly sexually assaulting a garment worker at Narikeltala Cross Dam in the city’s Bandar thana of Chittagong on Friday night. The arrested were Ershad and Abu Bakr. Full story

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Village police killed in road accident

A village police was killed in a road accident on Naogaon-Rajshahi Highway near Haji Gobindapur Community Clinic in Manda upazila in Naogaon on Saturday. The deceased was Shaheb Ali, 60, a village police... Full story

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