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PM reprimands 2 ministers

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday reprimanded two ministers, Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque and Food Minister Md Qamrul Islam, for their personal comments on Chief Justice SK Sinha. “It’s their personal opinion; the government has nothing to do with it. The government has been embarrassed,” a senior minister told The Independent quoting the Prime Minister after Monday’s Cabinet meeting. “Sheikh Hasina said, ‘You (two ministers) leave the Cabinet and make such remarks on the street’,” the minister further quoted the premier. The premier also warned the Cabinet ministers not to make such remarks in any forum. On March 6, two ministers at a roundtable discussion criticised…

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Appeal verdict on Jamaat leader Mir Quasem today

The Supreme Court will deliver its verdict on an appeal filed by war crimes convict and Jamaat-e-Islami…

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News

Govt obstructs Tarique�s return to country, says Fakhrul

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) yesterday alleged that the government is standing in the way of senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman’s return to Bangladesh by implicating him in several “false cases”. “Tarique Rahman is in exile now. A number of false cases was filed against…

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Metro

Domestic help�s death sparks protest

Local people rallied against the alleged killing of a domestic help at the residence of a senior government official in the city’s Mirpur area yesterday. The demonstrators, along with family members, charged the bureaucrat’s son with raping Zania Begum and throwing her from the rooftop on…

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Editorial

In renewable energy lies salvation

Renewable energy is generally defined as energy that is collected from resources which are naturally replenished on a human timescale. Renewable energy projects in many developing countries have demonstrated that renewable energy can directly contribute to poverty reduction by providing the energy needed…

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Op-ed

Bangabandhu�s March 7 Speech: A preface to Bengali nationhood

Bangabandhu’s speeches were always spontaneous and undrafted. He would never read out the text of a speech written earlier. “While Sheikh Mujib’s speeches would not be written beforehand, those could not be put in writing either,” said sociologist Sardar Fazlul Karim. Numerous…

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Miscellaneous

�UK to help Bangladesh stop voice against women�

The United Kingdom has said it will continue to help Bangladesh’s stride in eradicating child marriage and stopping violence against women giving both girls and women ‘safe and secure’ lives ensuring their economic independence, reports UNB. “Despite significant progress, still…

Onion seed farms rising in Rajshahi region

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Business

�Lot more needs to be done for women�s economic empowerment�

There is no doubt that the economic status of women in Bangladesh is better off today compared to what it was a few years ago. But the progress has not been up to expectations. Women still have to face barriers and disadvantages in many aspects of their lives, experts observed. There are claims…

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Worldwide

N Korea threatens nuke strikes over South-US military drills

AFP, SEOUL: North Korea threatened pre-emptive and “indiscriminate” nuclear strikes against South Korea and the United States on Monday, as the two allies kicked off their annual, large-scale military exercises. The drills always raise tensions on the divided Korean peninsula and the situation…

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Dhakalive

Swapnadal to stage �Chitrangada� at Shilpakala today

DL desk Marking International Women’s Day, theatre troupe Swapnadal is going to honour its regular theatre female activists and stage Rabindranath Tagore’s ‘Chitrangada’ at the Studio Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy (BSA) in the capital today. Rabindranath Tagore…

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Sports

Bangladesh reach Dharmasala

Bangladesh T20 and ODI skipper Mashrafe Bin Mortaza said that they want to play in the main event of the ICC World T20 2016 overcoming the hurdle of the qualifying round. “We were not consistent in T20 but all the players in the squad have been brimmed with confidence after winning two recent…

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Nationwide

Man killed by robbers

A businessman, who received bullet injuries while trying to resist a group of robbers from looting jewelry shops at Miar Haat area in Kalkini upazila early yesterday, died at Barishal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital on Monday noon, reports UNB. The deceased was identified as Swapan Kazi, 30,…

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2 accused now at BNP�s helm, says PM

Describing the reelection of Khaleda Zia as BNP chairperson and Tarique Rahman as its senior vice chairman as a stage-managed drama, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said now two accused are this party’s top leaders, reports UNB. “Whom they (BNP) have actually elected -- there two…

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Panorama

Children of PKK

It was midday on a Thursday at the end of December when Rozerin Çukur left her home, supposedly to pick up class notes from a friend. She never returned. Rozerin wandered through the narrow streets of Sur, the tangled old town neighborhood in Diyarbakir, a city of one million in southeastern…

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