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25 BUET teachers resign

Twenty-five teachers of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology resigned their positions of deans, department heads and institute directors on Wednesday expressing no confidence in the vice-chancellor and pro-vice-chancellor. Five deans, heads of 17 departments... Full story

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Govt initiates new consortium

The government has taken an initiative to float a new international consortium for funding the Padma Multipurpose Bridge after the World Bank scrapped a $1.2 billion loan for the project, officials said. Full story

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UNO-upazila chairman conflict affects dev work

Deputy commissioners at their annual conference in Dhaka on Wednesday said that field-level administrations could not function properly mainly because of ‘non-cooperation’ of local... Full story

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PM smells rat behind WB fund pull-out

The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Wednesday said that the people who had tried to isolate her government from the people with the stigma of ‘corruption’ in the Padma bridge project had failed... Full story

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Flooding getting better

Floodwaters across the country receded significantly though many people had been displaced by river erosions, mostly in north and northeast regions. Thousands of people were either marooned or displaced... Full story

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CNG auto rickshaws vandalised during strike

CNG-run auto-rickshaws were vandalised in the capital on Wednesday on the first of a two day strike of the vehicles enforced by a section of drivers. About six auto-rickshaws were vandalised... Full story

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Quader wants highways, roads fit before Eid

Communications Minister Obaidul Quader on Wednesday asked the deputy commissioners to make the roads and highway fit for vehicular traffic ahead of the Eid-ul Fitre. Full story

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ACC to send letter to Abul Hossain in a day or two

The Anti-Corruption Commission is to send a letter to former communications minister Syed Abul Hossain in a day or two to fix a date and place to interrogate him about the alleged... Full story

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Witness Nirmal recounts how his parents were gunned down

The defence counsel on Wednesday completed the cross examining of the sixth prosecution witness against detained war crimes accused Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, MP. Full story

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HRW asks govt to withdraw charges against Limon

New York-based Human Rights Watch in a statement on Wednesday asked the Bangladesh government to withdraw criminal charges against Limon Hossain, who was shot last year by the Rapid... Full story

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Pak court accuses security force over missing people

Pakistan’s top judge on Wednesday accused the paramilitary Frontier Corps of involvement in the disappearance of a third of all the missing persons in the country’s restive southwest. Full story

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Fakhrul asks govt to release info on WB allegation of corruption

Opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Wednesday threatened to make public whatever information they have gathered if the government does not disclose the facts and... Full story

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FF Mama recalls Molla’s atrocities

Freedom fighter and war crimes case witness, Syed Shahidul Haque Mama said on Wednesday, after capturing Graphic Arts Institute at Mohammadpur in Dhaka on December 16, 1971, he and... Full story

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Rajuk allots Uttara plots more than planned

Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha has allotted plots more than what it decided for allotment in the Uttara residential model town (3rd phase) project, requiring it to acquire more land bordering on the project area. Full story

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64 more Rohingyas sent back

Sixty-four more Rohingyas who had fled sectarian violence in Myanmar into Bangladesh were sent back through the Naityang and Shahparir Dwip points in Teknaf. Full story

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22 dead in Yemen police academy suicide bombing

At least 22 people were killed in a suicide bombing at a police academy in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Wednesday, an attack police investigators said bore the hallmarks of al-Qaeda. Full story

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ACC sues 16 persons including 12 railway officials in Ctg

The Anti-Corruption Commission on Wednesday filed two cases against 16 persons, including 12 former and serving officials of Bangladesh Railway, on charge of leasing out a piece... Full story

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Passengers suffer as customs officials stage demonstration at airport

Several hundred passengers at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport experienced untold sufferings on Wednesday as customs officials staged a demonstration following the arrest of one of their colleagues. Full story

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Burglary at city temple

A theft was committed at Laksmi Narayan Mandir in the city’s Sutrapur area on Tuesday night. Police said the burglars took away three tolas of gold, 70 tolas of silver and Tk 40,000-50,000 in... Full story

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Journalist found dead

A journalist of a local daily was found dead on railway tracks in Habiganj on Wednesday. Junaed Ahmed, a staff reporter of Dainik Bibiana published from Nabiganj upazila, was... Full story

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JU teachers protest at planned VC panel poll

A group of Jahangirnagar University teachers on Wednesday took out a procession and held a rally on campus, demanding immediate elections to the posts of deans, provosts and... Full story

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