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$4.63m recovered

More than $4.5 million of tens of millions recently stolen from Bangladesh and funnelled into Philippine casinos was recovered yesterday, as a lawmaker in Manila said almost half the haul could still be salvaged, reports AFP from Manila. On February 5, unidentified hackers shifted $81 million from the Bangladesh central bank’s account with the US Federal Reserve to a nondescript bank in Manila, and then to the casinos where the trail went cold. Representatives for casino agent Kim Wong, who is under criminal investigation after a portion of the stolen money was traced to his account, surrendered $4.63 million in cash to the Philippine central bank on Thursday. “He kept his promise to return the money,” Wong’s lawyer…

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UP poll violence kills 9

Nine people including a student of Dhaka University and a 10-year old boy, were killed and at least…

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News

UK govt duly appeased by steps in aviation security

Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Rashed Khan Menon has revealed positive feedback from the UK government over the recent steps taken by the government relating to aviation security, reports UNB. Menon was talking to reporters after a meeting with the visiting US delegation from the Department of…

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Metro

ACC urged to set example by punishing corrupt people

Observing that the existing culture of impunity is a major barrier to combating corruption, eminent citizens at a seminar in the capital yesterday urged the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) to set an example by punishing well-identified corrupt people, reports UNB. They said the Commission must give…

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Editorial

Shifting tanneries: What is after the ultimatum?

Can the government now be strong enough not to allow any rawhide to enter the tanneries of Hazaribagh after the latest timeline to the tannery owners to shift their tanneries to Savar passes today? The government is also supposed to cut electricity, gas and water connection to the tanneries in case…

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Op-ed

If the world won�t take on ISIL, what will we fight for?

If anyone had predicted in early 2013 that the world would soon countenance the creation of a terrorist state in the Middle East, they would surely have been dismissed as peddling apocalyptic fantasy. If they had gone on to say that this state would grow to take in huge swaths of Syria and Iraq, and…

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Miscellaneous

Farmers expect bumper litchi yield in Rajshahi zone

RAJSHAHI: Growers, agriculturists and other traders concerned are expecting a bumper production of litchi as most of the trees have sprouted massively thanks to a suitable climatic condition everywhere in the region. While visiting some of the litchi-producing areas, this correspondent found that the…

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Business

Deal for first LNG terminal inked with Excelerate

The country’s state-owned energy company, Petrobangla, and Excelerate Energy Bangladesh Limited (EEBL), a subsidiary of Texas-headquartered Excelerate Energy Ltd, yesterday ratified the terminal use agreement for establishing the first-ever floating storage and re-gasification unit (FSRU), popularly…

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Worldwide

China to US: �Be careful� in South China Sea

Beijing’s defence ministry yesterday warned the US navy to “be careful” in the South China Sea and slammed a newly signed defence agreement between Washington and the Philippines, reports AFP from Beijing. Earlier this month, Manila agreed to give US forces access to five military…

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Dhakalive

�Satyen Sen Gono Sangeet Utsab� begins today

Like the previous years, Udichi Shilpi Gosthi, one of the most vibrant cultural organisations in the country, is going to organise a three-day music festival and competition titled ‘Satyen Sen Gono Sangeet Utsab and National Gono Sangeet Competition 2016’ from today. Veteran Jatra artiste…

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Sports

England promise �all guns blazing� in final

AFP, NEW DELHI: Dashing opener Jason Roy pledged that England would come out “all guns blazing” in Sunday's World Twenty20 final as they look to complete their head-spinning transformation from cricket's laughing stock to champions. Just one year ago, England were licking their wounds…

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Nationwide

Construction of roads, culverts begins

Construction works of the 11-kilometre long roads and 10 culverts from Bala Komar Sarak point to Burial via Khotkhotia Kali Mandir points have begun under Ward No-4 and Ward No-5 here in the city, reports BSS. Mayor of Rangpur City Corporation (RpCC) and valiant freedom fighter Alhaj Sarfuddin Ahmed…

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Backpage

Dont allow corruption, apathy

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked the new members of the Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) to work as public servants and not to indulge in corruption and allow apathy in their activities, reports UNB. “Don’t indulge in corruption and don’t let others to indulge in corruption.…

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Panorama

Lessons from Apple vs. the F.B.I.

It’s welcome news that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has dropped its legal effort to force Apple to help it create a method of accessing data on a locked iPhone 5C used by Syed Rizwan Farook, one of the perpetrators of the massacre that took place in December in San Bernardino. Not that…

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