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Death for man who stabbed 22 children in China

A knife-wielding attacker who stabbed 22 students at a primary school in China was sentenced to death yesterday, a court said. The Xinyang City Intermediate People’s Court said Min Yongjun, 37, was...

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Canada joins global effort

Canada’s federal government has kicked in funding for an international effort to boost worker safety in Bangladesh clothing factories, which manufacture products for many Canadian retailers. Canada’s...

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Mourners flood in to say goodbye

Tens of thousands of mourners, some breaking through police barriers, flocked to South Africa’s central government buildings yesterday to say a personal goodbye to anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela on...

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Mollah buried amid tight security

The executed Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdul Quader Mollah was buried amid tight security at his village home in Sadarpur upazila of Faridpur early yesterday. Escorted by a motorcade of law enforcers, an...

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It’s people of Bangladesh to decide future

India has said its relation with Bangladesh is based on principles of mutual respect, benefit, non-interference and respect for each other’s sovereignty. New Delhi came up with the statement following...

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10 killed in less than a month

Ten people were killed in Satkhira in last 27 days as Jamaat-Shibir men unleashed violence on political rivals. The southern district has seen waves of violence since November 21 during hartals and...

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Turkey slams execution

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdağ criticised the hanging of war criminal Quader Mollah by saying, “It is nothing but a murder.” Meanwhile, Amnesty International has warned that Mollah’s...

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Social sites explode, global media abuzz

“Finally, with one Rajakar less, a happy start of the day.” This is one of the comments flooding the social media after Thursday night’s hanging of war criminal Quader Mollah. Facebook user Senjuti...

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No blockade, but highway blocked

For those, who thought Friday would be safe for travelling by road since it is weekly holiday and there had been no hartal or blockade announced, it was a nightmare all the way to the destination. The...

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UN chief also ‘spoke to president’

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who called Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday, also spoke with President Abdul Hamid expressing his deep concern over widespread violence in Bangladesh. During...

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18-party mulls fresh blockade from Tuesday

The BNP-led 18-party opposition alliance last night decided to enforce another bout of blockade or hartal from Tuesday to press home its demand for a non-party polls-time government. The duration of...

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AL, BNP leaders sit for 3rd time

Leaders of ruling Awami League and main opposition BNP yesterday exchanged some proposals to end the ongoing political crisis over the 10th parliamentary polls. BNP proposals include postponement of...

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Ershad not ill

Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad was apparently not allowed to quit the January 5 electoral race as three returning officers yesterday rejected his applications for withdrawal of candidature. Yesterday...

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128 elected uncontested

Amid lowest-ever participation of candidates, at least 128 of them are set to be elected unopposed at the January 5 parliamentary election, breaking the record of the farcical polls on February 15,...

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Witnesses still vulnerable

This Martyred Intellectuals Day is more special as only on Thursday night a war criminal was executed in Bangladesh for the first time. And on November 3, a tribunal sentenced two Al-Badr leaders —...

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Boy critically hurt in firing

Yet another child fell victim to the persisting political turmoil as violence escalated in the capital yesterday following the execution of war criminal Abdul Quader Mollah. Shanto Islam, 11, turned up...

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We will redeem the old promise

In the cold, sad winter of 1971, the collaborators of the Pakistan occupation army picked up and then picked off scores of our illustrious citizens in the naïve belief that the sorry end of these...

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Jamaat, Shibir strike terror

In a spree of countrywide violence, Jamaat-Shibir men yesterday rampaged through the capital and 23 other districts, protesting Thursday’s execution of war criminal Abdul Quader Mollah, a top Jamaat...

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Nation observes new-dimension Martyred Intellectuals’ Day

The nation is observing Martyred Intellectuals Day with a different dimension this year as a war criminal was hanged just only two days ago. Jamaat assistant secretary general Abdul Quader Mollah,...

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Mandela goodbye for ANC members

Nelson Mandela’s coffin is due to set off for his ancestral home in Qunu, where his state funeral will be held on Sunday ending a week of commemorations. After leaving the mortuary, the coffin will be...

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