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Another blogger killed

Another progressive blogger was hacked to death in broad daylight by suspected Islamic militants at his rented flat in the capital’s Goran area yesterday. Niladri Chakrabarti, alias Niloy Neel, 40, also a Ganajagaran Mancha activist, is the fourth blogger to be killed in Bangladesh this year, and fifth since February 2013. All the murders have sparked widespread condemnation at home and abroad. Niloy’s wife Asha Moni said four assailants, pretending to be prospective tenants, entered their fourth-floor flat and hacked her husband to death in the drawing room around 1:20pm. Asha and her younger sister Tonni were kept confined in a balcony at that time. Niloy returned home from the market around noon and sat with his laptop in the…

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Five bloggers slain in two years

Niladri Chakrabarti, who was hacked to death by assailants at his home in the capital yesterday, is…

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News

President leaves for Vietnam

President Md Abdul Hamid reached Bangkok, the capital city of Thailand, on his way to Vietnam on a seven-day state visit, reports UNB. On his arrival at Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Bangkok at 3pm local time, the President was received by Bangladesh Ambassador to Thailand Sadia Muna Tasneem.…

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Metro

Beauty gives confessional statement

Khulna: Beauty Begum, mother of Rakib killing prime accused Sharif and also an accused herself, reportedly made confessional statement before a court here yesterday, reports UNB. Metropolitan Magistrate Aysha Akhter recorded the statement of Beauty Begum under section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure…

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Editorial

Leaders� responsibility to educate, to lead

John F Kennedy was one of the most illustrious Presidents of the USA. He remains etched in the memory of the survivors of his generation round the world for his great idealism, philosophy, erudite statements and intellectual abilities. This great leader was one asked by a journalist about what…

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Op-ed

Smoothening the way for greater overseas employment

Hard thinkers of the Bangladesh’s economic situation have calculated that this country can fairly soon much further reduce its dependence on foreign aid and carry out its developmental activities by its own efforts by relying on its own strengths. Policies to this end are needed …

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Business

Livestock mega project on cards

The government is going to undertake a project to rear some 5 lakh cows and buffaloes by rural people on cooperatives basis in seven divisions, aiming to meet the country’s growing demand for milk and meat, reports UNB. “A project is being prepared in this regard where the beneficiaries…

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Worldwide

Norwegian youths reclaim island

AFP, UTOYA: Four years after Anders Behring Breivik shot dead 69 people on Utoya island in Norway, about 1,000 Labour Party youths gathered Friday for the first summer camp to be held there since the massacre. The right-wing extremist killed mainly teenagers in his rampage on July 22, 2011, hunting…

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Dhakalive

Tagore�s 74th death anniversary observed

Marking the 74th death anniversary of Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore, cultural arena of the country organized different elaborate programmes on August 6. As part of this programme, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy organized a discussion and cultural event at its National Music and Dance…

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Sports

England take massive lead

AFP, NOTTINGHAM: Mitchell Starc did his best to rally Australia on the second day of the fourth Ashes Test at Trent Bridge on Friday but they still had a mountain to climb just to get back on level terms with England. Left-arm fast bowler Starc took six for 111 including a spell of three for five in…

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Nationwide

Baladev�s �Shishu Tirtha� teaches art for free

Our Correspondent, Narail Boys and girls, aged about six to sixteen of mainly marginal farmers and working class people, come every Friday to learn drawing at Shishu Tirtha (a place of pilgrimage for children), a free school of fine arts run by Baladev Adhikary. The school was established by Baladev…

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Four killed in Munshiganj road crashes

Four people were killed and 26 others injured in three road accidents in Sreenagar and Louhajang upazilas yesterday, reports UNB. In Sreenagar, a bus plunged into a pond at Shologhar on Dhaka-Mawa highway at noon, killing two people and injuring at least 20 others. The identities of the deceased could…

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