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VIPs� SIM cards cloned

A gang of criminals have come up with an innovative approach of cloning mobile phone SIM (subscriber identity module) cards of very important persons (VIPs) and using the cloned cards for extortion, fraud and other crimes. The criminals are using special software to clone the numbers of VIPs to carry out nefarious activities, much to the embarrassment of the government high-ups. The list of victims includes ministers, members of parliament, top bureaucrats, officials of the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) and businessmen. Several complains have been lodged in this regard with Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) in the past few months by some VIPs, including Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed and State Minister for…

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AL grassroots bodies in a shambles

In the absence of full-fledged or new committees at the district level of the Awami League, the party’s…

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News

Syed Mohsin Ali laid to rest in Moulvibazar

Social Welfare Minister Syed Mohsin Ali was laid to eternal rest beside his parents’ graves at Shah Mostafa Mazar at Darjirmahal in Moulvibazar district town yesterday, reports UNB. The burial took place around 5:03 pm after a namaz-e-janaza at Moulvibazar Government High School ground around…

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Metro

People�s sufferings mount for auto-rickshaw strike in Ctg

Hundreds of commuters yesterday faced untold sufferings as the CNG-run auto-rickshaw drivers and owners enforced a non-stop strike in the city and the district to press home their eight-point charter of demands. Earlier, the CNG drivers and owners declared to go for the strike after a holding a press…

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Editorial

A realistic scenario of Dhaka City

Urbanization is one of the leading global trends having a significant impact on health. The World Health Organization estimates that more than 70 percent of the world’s population will live in cities by the middle of this century. Unfortunately, these transformations are happening too quickly…

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Op-ed

Progress on climate negotiations tardy

In Bonn early in September 2015, the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP), the body set up by the United Nations (UN) Climate Change Convention to devise a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, was asked to produce a paper for the Paris summit at the end of 2015.…

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Miscellaneous

Another accused held

Police arrested an accused in a case filed in connection with the Juba League factional clash in Magura that killed a person and left an expecting mother and her baby inside the womb wounded by bullets, from the Magura court area yesterday, reports UNB. The arrestee was identified as Ali Akbar, 30,…

4 sent to jail on charges of child trafficking

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Business

Pay taxes willingly to ensure development: Amu

Financially solvent citizens should pay income tax willingly to ensure the country’s development, industries minister Amir Hossain Amu said yesterday. “If financially solvent citizens pay their taxes regularly, Bangladesh will become a middle-income nation before 2021. And it will turn into…

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Worldwide

Migrants head into Croatia after border closures

AFP, TOVARNIK, Croatia: Migrants began crossing from Serbia into Croatia on Wednesday, desperate to find new ways to western Europe after Hungary sealed its frontier and EU states tightened border controls over the unprecedented human influx. Pressure is building for a special European Union summit…

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Dhakalive

Afzal Hossain, Farah Ruma work together after 14 long years

Famed actor-director Afzal Hossain and popular actress Farah Ruma, who are certainly no strangers to one another due to their professional engagment, will appear together on screen after a lengthy period of 14 years in a tele-drama titled ‘Chor’, directed by Nyeem Imtiaz Neyamul and written…

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Sports

BPL finally approves six franchisees

The Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) governing council finalised six franchisees for the third edition of the tournament which promised to be a new-look, free from all kinds of irregularities, something that seriously affected the credibility of the tournament in the past two versions. The curtain of…

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Nationwide

Gorai-Sakhipur-Kakraid road in bad shape

The 40-km Gorai-Sakhipur-Kakraid road has become a nightmare for vehicular traffic and the commuters. Locals said the condition of the road has never been better because of the use of sub-standard materials. People of five upazilas of Tangail have been suffering due to its pitiable condition for a long…

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British jihadis in Bangladesh fanning flames of extremism: The Guardian

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has warned her UK counterpart David Cameron that he needs to do more to combat radicalism amid concerns that British jihadis are fuelling a rise in extremism in Bangladesh, the world’s third most populous Muslim nation, reports The Guardian from London. Security and…

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