• Failure to implement projects reflects on govt incompetence, insincerity
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  • Holocaust ignored, in unlikely places
  • Syria’s ‘Liberated’ future
  • Concessions to human rights pressures and a political solution
  • Tagore’s women characters evaluated
  • Swapnadal theatre fest ends
  • 250,000 flee as floods paralyse Manila
  • Kuwait fails again to swear in new cabinet
  • 4 mobile cos get renewed licences
  • BB’s credibility under question
  • Teary Sanchez fulfils a promise
  • Bronze as precious as gold!
  • Sell tickets for even standing passengers of trains: minister
  • Nat’l Museum observes 99th founding anniv
  • Madhumati housing project in flood-flow zone illegal: SC
  • Number of dengue cases on rise in city
  • BPC incurs loss of Tk 100 crore in the name of ‘system loss’
  • Hajj operators yet to rent houses in Makkah
  • NHRC chief asks govt to probe extrajudicial killings, disappearances
  • AL-led govt unwilling to implement CHT accord: Santu Larma
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250,000 flee as floods paralyse Manila

Residents wade through floodwaters in Tinajeros, Malabon city, Metro Manila on Tuesday. — Reuters photo
Half of Manila was under water and 250,000 people fled their homes Tuesday as torrential rain paralysed the city, sweeping away houses, stranding residents on rooftops and triggering a landslide. At least 15 people were confirmed dead as the... Full story

Kuwait fails again to swear in new cabinet

Kuwaiti lawmakers boycotted a parliament session on Tuesday to foil another attempt to swear in a new cabinet - a move that makes the assembly’s dissolution likely and throws the US ally into more turmoil. Full story

Death toll climbs to 73, locals block highway

Four more persons fell victim to the fresh wave of violence in lower Assam districts, triggering protest by locals who blocked National Highway 31 at Beltoli on the Kokrajhar-Dhubri border on Tuesday. Full story

More than 22,000 Iraqis flee Syria: UN

More than 22,000 Iraqis have fled the violence in Syria for their home country in less than three weeks, joining over 12,000 Syrian refugees, a UN refugee agency official said on Tuesday. Full story

Romney launching new attack on Obama over welfare law

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US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will launch a new attack against the US president, Barack Obama, on Tuesday, taking aim at the Democrat’s plan to waive parts of a landmark welfare-to-work law. Romney is targeting Obama’s... Full story

China pulls paper over flood story: rights group

China has pulled a Beijing newspaper from the newsstands after it criticised the official handling of July floods and said the government had underreported the death toll, a rights group said Tuesday. Full story

America needs ‘soul searching’ on gun violence: Obama

The US president, Barack Obama, said on Monday that mass killings like the shooting rampage at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin were occurring with ‘too much regularity’ and should prompt soul searching by... Full story

Singapore rapist used Facebook app to find victims

A Singaporean serial rapist who met his victims using a Facebook dating app is facing one of the stiffest jail terms ever sought by prosecutors in the city-state, a newspaper reported Tuesday. Full story

British police arrest Sun journalist, cop

The police arrested a journalist from Rupert Murdoch’s top-selling British tabloid The Sun and a policeman on Tuesday for alleged corruption, Scotland Yard and the journalist’s employer said. Full story

China braces as typhoon threatens Shanghai

China rushed to evacuate more than 400,000 people on Tuesday as the most powerful typhoon since 2005 threatened the commercial hub of Shanghai, the government and state media said. Full story

Donkey bomb kills Afghan police chief

A bomb strapped to a donkey by Taliban insurgents killed an Afghan district police chief and wounded three others, an official said Tuesday. The explosive-laden donkey was tied to a bridge near the gate of the local... Full story

Seven killed in fresh attack on Abidjan army base

A raid on an army base in Abidjan killed at least six soldiers and one of the assailants Monday, in the latest of a string of attacks targeting the military in Ivory Coast’s economic capital. Full story


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