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Dying rivers deliver deluge blow
25 dead or half-dead; route length shrinks to 3,800km from 24,000km
Flooding recurs every year with spiralling ferocity, as no fewer than 25 of the 230 rivers in the country are either dead or dying out, with many more dozens drying up and reduced to water pockets, river
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Quacks cripple hundreds
Wrong treatment often leads to amputation
Hundreds of people, especially children, across the country lose their limbs and become crippled due to wrong treatment by traditional healers of bone injuries.
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Boiler explosion kills 2 in Jhalakathi
Two people were killed and five others injured seriously in a boiler explosion at a rice mill at Char Indrapasha under Rajapur upazila of Jhalakathi district in the early hours yesterday.
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Wolfowitz named WB chief
Controversies go unheeded
The World Bank Thursday named Paul Wolfowitz its next president despite misgivings about the deputy US defence secretary's "neoconservative" ideology and enthusiastic promotion of the war in Iraq.
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Pope hovers near death
Pope John Paul neared death yesterday as his health suddenly worsened, drawing anguished prayers from Catholics around the world reluctant to accept his historic pontificate was near its end.
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Chinese premier praises Dhaka's achievements
Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao has congratulated the people of Bangladesh for the "enormous achievements" they made in their "unremitting efforts for independence and national development.
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JU appoints more teachers than advertised for
The Jahangirnagar University (JU) authorities continue to appoint more teachers than the posts advertised for or without any advertisements in violation of university rules, giving rise to allegations
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Cochin ODI today
In-form Pakistan batsman Younis Khan will miss Saturday's opening game of a six-match one-day series against India due to a fever, captain Inzamamul-Haq has said.
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Schiavo dies but battle over her fate still rages
The life of brain-damaged woman Terri Schiavo has ended but the battle over her fate is still raging in the United States, with a leading lawmaker vowing to take action against an "arrogant, out-of-control"
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MP's son yet to be nabbed
Police are yet to arrest Noman Kadar, son of BNP lawmaker Ali Kadar of Jessore-1 constituency. Noman is accused of beating up a traffic constable.
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Nepal sets free Koirala, 200 other detainees
Former Nepali prime minister Girija Prasad Koirala and around 200 other activists detained since King Gyanendra seized power two months ago have been released, police said yesterday.
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Zahiruddin Khan laid to rest
Former minister for industry and planning AM Zahiruddin Khan was laid to eternal rest at Batali Hill family graveyard after his second namaz-e-janaza following Juma prayers here yesterday.
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Tragic!
A teenage girl yesterday met aher tragic death at their Kafrul residence in the city while exercising.
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Skop to enforce 48-hr strike on Apr 5-6
Labour leaders from a rally in the capital yesterday threatened to go for a tougher movement, if the government does not immediately implement its agreement with the labour organisations.
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China defies world to back embattled Nepal king
China became the first major country yesterday to voice support for Nepal's King Gyanendra as the Chinese foreign minister ended a visit to the Himalayan nation globally isolated since the monarch seized
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BJP to reignite temple campaign
Senior Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Pramod Mahajan said yesterday that a controversial campaign to build a temple on the ruins of a destroyed mosque would be reignited.
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Six abducted in Rangamati
Armed miscreants abducted six people from two villages of Barkal upazila of the district yesterday and on Thursday night, security sources said.
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