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Village potters go global
A backwater neighbourhood churns tiles for European markets
Kumar Para, meaning potters' neighbourhood, stands thousands of miles from Europe. But the thriving village of Murarikati in Kalaroa upazila has recently come to be known as 'Italy Nagar'.
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JCD bolsters DU siege
Activists with police chase out BCL men, cases filed against each others, teachers decry violence
Pro-BNP Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) activists aided by the police yesterday chased out on sight Awami League-backed Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) workers, who they have declared unwanted on Dhaka
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Attorney general at odds with lawyers
Bar Council to hold requisition meeting this month against his stance
Bangladesh Bar Council has engaged in a rift with the attorney general, who is the council's ex-officio chairman, over holding an emergency meeting on lawyers' rights and privileges following a courtban
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SingTel buys 45pc CityCell stake
Signs $118m deal with PBTL
Singapore Telecommunications Ltd (SingTel) yesterday bought for $118 million a 45 percent stake in the country's third largest cellular operator, Pacific Bangladesh Telecom Limited (PBTL), which operates
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Dhaka loses ADB alternate directorship to strife
The Indian executive director (ED) representing a group of five Asian countries in the Asian Development Bank (ADB), in an unprecedented move this week, removed and replaced the Bangladeshi alternateexecutive
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Narsingdi By-polls
Four BNP rebels pull out
Four rebel candidates of the ruling BNP yesterday withdrew from the race of Narsingdi-1 by-election.
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10 die from heat stroke
Hundreds suffer from dehydration, diarrhoea
Heat stroke caused by the extreme heat wave persisting over the country for the last few days killed at least 10 people, including three women, in Sirajganj, Gaibandha and Mymensingh, and sent hundreds
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Ershad expels wife from JP
Jatiya Party (JP) Chairman HM Ershad yesterday expelled party presidium member and his wife Bidisha Ershad, sources said.
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Tigers hope for fortune reversal
Bangladesh will be aiming for damage limitation when they start the second Test against England at the beautiful Riverside ground here on Friday.
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Series of attacks kill 34 in Iraq
Three suicide car bombings struck within an hour and two parked motorcycles exploded in northern Iraq yesterday, while gunmen in speeding cars opened fire on a crowded market in Baghdad in a series of
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Js Body on Defence
AL demands dissolution of Armed Forces Division
The main opposition Awami League (AL) representative in the parliamentary standing committee on the defence ministry yesterday demanded that the Armed Forces Division (AFD) be dissolved, terming it unnecessary
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Explosives Haul
Charges pressed against Galib, 4 others
Police yesterday submitted another charge-sheet under the Explosive Substances Act accusing Asadullah Al Galib, ameer of the Ahle Hadith Andolon, and four others.
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Ctg 'criminal' killed in 'shootout'
Rab nabs Shibir man
An alleged criminal was killed in a 'shootout between the police and his accomplices' at Khulshi in the port city yesterday while Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested notorious Shibir cadre Gias Hazarika
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Satkhira bigots threaten tough agitation
Religious bigots yesterday threatened to take up strong agitation programmes including strike if one of its members who was arrested Tuesday, is not released immediately.
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Fake Tk 500 note comes out of ATM
But bank officials shrug off responsibility
A customer of American Express Bank found a forged Tk 500 bill among the Tk 10,000 cash he withdrew yesterday from the bank's Gulshan Branch ATM (automated teller machine).
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Ansar commander shot dead
Unknown assailants yesterday shot down an ansar commander at Sanatangarh in the city's Hazaribagh, while muggers shot and injured a shop-owner at Badda.
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1.5km human chain decries deaths of Sumon, Ameer
Thousands formed a human chain yesterday afternoon at Khilgaon and Sabujbagh in the city protesting the deaths of Awami Jubo League leader Abul Kalam Azad Sumon in Rab custody and three-wheeler driver
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