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Mother confesses to killing children out of �anxiety�

In a sensational twist to the Banasree double murder case, the mother of the two slain children, Mahfuja Maleq Jesmin, yesterday confessed to having strangled her daughter Urni and son Alvi to death. However, two different statements from the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), the elite force, have generated confusion over the killings. Jesmin confessed to the law enforcers that she had killed her kids around 5:30 pm on Monday at their Banasree residence in the city’s Rampura area. Mufti Mahmood Khan, director (media) of the RAB Headquarters at Uttara, told journalists at noon after interrogating Jesmin that she had attributed the motive to “her anxiety”. She had been worried about her children’s studies and their future.…

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Tk 3.4 lakh cr nat�l budget on cards

Finance Minister AMA Muhith yesterday said a Tk 340,000 crore budget for the 2016-17 fiscal year is…

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News

Qatar to recruit Bangladeshis

The Qatar Government has agreed to recruit Bangladeshi workers for its domestic jobs with a minimum wage of QR1200 instead of the existing QR900. The decision was taken at a Joint Working Group (JWG) meeting held in Probashi Kalyan Bhaban at Eskaton in Dhaka yesterday. Expatriates Welfare and Overseas…

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Metro

Patients suffering for doctors� strike in Khulna

KHULNA: All physicians call on 24 hours strike yesterday at government and private hospitals to protesting assaulted one of their colleague, reports BSS.They also locked the gate of the emergency departments during the strike. Bangladesh Medical Association (BMA) Khulna Unit, Private Medical Practitioners…

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Editorial

Sunflower production in changing climate: Insights from farmers� field laboratory

One winter afternoon, the setting sun casts long across the lowland field, started shimmering the soft yellow light. The breeze swaying across the sunflower fields when we are walking through the road. A gray bearded old men working in the field. From twenty yards apart we asked enthusiastically…

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Op-ed

Cruelty towards animals

Last month villagers beat a leopard to death after it attacked the mayor of Sribordi municipality at Shait Kakra village in Sribordi upazila. Witnesses said the tiger entered the village from forests in the morning. As local people chased the animal it took shelter in a hole made for shallow engine.…

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Miscellaneous

Massive mango blooming predicts excellent yield

RAJSHAHI: The booming mango flowering at this stage predicts an excellent production of the most popular fruit in the region this season, if the climatic conditions remained favourable, experts and scientists here viewed, reports BSS. They observed that the prevailing climatic conditions are suitable…

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Business

43 PPP projects likely to draw $14b investment

Forty-three projects, now in the pipeline of Public Private Partnership (PPP) initiative, are expected to draw some $14 billion investment, reports UNB. This was informed at the first Board of Governors meeting of the PPP Authority held at the Prime Minister’s Office yesterday with Board of Governors…

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Worldwide

Climate change poised to hurt food supplies: Study

AFP, PARIS: The effects of climate change on food production could cause 500,000 extra deaths by 2050 compared to a world without global warming, according to a study released Thursday.If greenhouse gas emissions continue at current rates, this would cut projected increases in food availability by about…

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Dhakalive

Mousumi, Riaz together in telefilm for first time

ZH Mintu is an eminent cinematographer of Bangladesh and a big number of audience-admired films have been produced in his cinematography. But he was never involved in direction. This is for the first time that ZH Mintu has made a tele-film titled ‘Megher Arale’. The story thought of…

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Sports

Mash salutes match-winner Riyad

When he carved one past deep mid-wicket to hit the winning boundary against Pakistan, Mahmudullah Riyad’s name was inscribed to the folklore of Bangladesh cricket, considering the magnitude of the shot. That boundary breathed life to the packed home crowd who were chewing the nails with anticipation.…

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Nationwide

�Govt provides allocations for development works�

Being the daughter-in-law of Rangpur, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina specially loves the people of the area and she has taken the responsibility of development for Rangpur on her own shoulders. “As a result, massive development works are being conducted in Rangpur city with the allocations…

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Backpage

Shop owners asked to clear pavements in 7 days

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) mayor Annisul Huq yesterday directed shopkeepers and vendors to clear the pavements of encroachments in the next seven days. Otherwise, after March 10, DNCC mobile teams would initiate legal action against the encroachers, the mayor told a meeting, arranged by the…

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Panorama

Bin Laden documents

In the last months of his life, an isolated Osama bin Laden was in a serious dispute with the two brothers who had been pretty much his only connection to the outside world for the previous eight years. The brothers -- two longtime members of al Qaeda whose family hailed from northern Pakistan, not…

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