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Police drives against militants from today

The police are going to launch a combing operation across the country from today (Friday) against the militants and criminals, said Inspector General of Police (IGP) AKM Shahidul Haque. Members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) will join the police during the special drives, he added. After a three and half hour meeting at the police headquarters yesterday, the police chief order the officers to update the lists of the members of different militant groups in the country. Shahidul Haque asked the police officers to collect information about the militants working in different areas through community policing. Earlier, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal had said that the police will start anti-militant…

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AL involved: Khaleda

BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday alleged that ruling Awmi League and its allies are involved in…

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Govt still to decide on fate of PSC exams

Even though the government has formally announced to upgrade the primary cycle up to Class VIII by 2018 as per the National Education Policy, 2010, it is yet to take a decision on the annulment of the primary school certificate (PSC) examinations. Sources in the ministry of primary and mass education…

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Metro

Three to walk gallows for killing schoolboy

A Gazipur court yesterday convicted three people and sentenced them to death for killing a schoolboy after abduction in 1996. The Judge of Gazipur Additional District and Session Judge Court Mohammed Fazle Elahi Bhuiyan handed down the verdict. The convicts are identified as Ataur Rahman alias Ata,…

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Editorial

Containing sub-standard medicines

The High Court on Wednesday ordered the government to halt production of medicines of some 20 drug manufacturing companies on charges of producing substandard medicines, besides prohibiting 14 more companies from producing antibiotics. Chalking out a long list of companies, the health secretary and…

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Op-ed

Putin devotes oil windfall to guns, not butter

The recent rise in oil prices -- almost 80 percent from their mid-January low -- is a sudden gift to the Russian economy and government. Yet officials act as if the country is as squeezed financially as it was earlier this year: There’s no sign of expanded social spending, despite approaching…

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Miscellaneous

Killings on at govt’s backing, alleges BNP

Terming provocative and unaccepted the Prime Minister’s comment that she has information about ‘BNP-Jamaat’s link’ to secret killings, BNP yesterday alleged that the recent murder incidents are happening at the ‘behest of the state’s highest level’, reports…

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Business

Over 55,000 tenders worth $5.8b processed online

The country is making transformational shift to its public procurement environment with exponential growth of electronic government procurement, known as e-GP, the World Bank said in a statement yesterday, reports BSS. A joint team of the World Bank and the government recently reviewed the project progress…

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Worldwide

Israel clamps down after Tel Aviv cafe attack

AFP, TEL AVIV: Israel clamped down on Palestinian movements and boosted security Thursday after Palestinian gunmen shot dead four people at a popular Tel Aviv nightspot, the deadliest attack in a months-long wave of violence. Surveillance video seemingly from the moment of the attack that spread online…

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Dhakalive

‘Akash Koto Dure’, ‘Gariwala’, to be screened in Nepal film fest

Two Bangladeshi films ‘Akash Koto Dure’ and ‘Gariwala’, produced under the banner of Impress Telefilm, will be screened at ‘The Fourth Nepal Human Rights International Film Festival (NHRIFF)’ in Nepal. The festival has been set to be held at Lalitpur Staff College…

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Sports

Victoria top table in DPL first phase

Victoria Sporting Club became the table topper after the first phase as the curtain of the first phase of the Dhaka Premier League (DPL) fell yesterday. Victoria acquired 15 points in 11 matches to top the table and would be accompanied by Mohammedan Sporting Club, Prime Doleshwar Sporting Club, Abahani…

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Nationwide

50,000 brought under sanitation coverage in Teknaf, Ukhia

As an effort to make them free from various water and airborne diseases, more than 50,000 people were brought under sanitation and hygiene coverage in Teknaf and Ukhia upazilas in the district till May last, reports BSS from Cox’s Bazar. Various software and hardware activities were implemented…

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Progress not possible without women’s participation: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said the country's 'meaningful progress' is not possible leaving out the womenfolk, the half of the stotal population, from the development process, reports UNB. "No nation could witness meaningful development leaving out its one segment …

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Panorama

Dumbing down of Indian politics

Our ruling dispensation draws heavily upon the symbols and rituals of Hinduism to justify its authority. But leaders of this brand of politics do not seem to be conversant with discourses on statecraft in Brahmanical texts of ancient India. Consider Santi Parva, the twelfth episode of the Mahabharata,…

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