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Multiple MRPs, no problem

Having more than one machine-readable passport (MRP) might be a cakewalk for criminals and runaways, especially if they choose to emulate the kind of fraud committed by Md Mamum Mia, a well-known smuggler with police records, who has obtained no less than three MRPs under different names and addresses using the same photograph and set of fingerprints. This has raised the obvious question: How can one person obtain more than one MRP by hoodwinking a set of strict security measures? The director general of the Department of Immigration and Passports (DIP), Brig. Gen. Md Masud Rezwan, however, admitted that some people have obtained more than one MRP through “mis-fingering” or taking imprints of wrong fingers. Mamun visited…

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3 financiers ‘identified’

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) additional commissioner Monirul Islam yesterday claimed that they have…

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News

WB president visits Barisal, meets project stakeholders

On the second day of his two-day visit to Bangladesh, World Bank (WB) president Jim Yong Kim visited two development projects in Barisal and talked to the stakeholders. He first visited Rakudia Gram Samittee under the social development project at Babugang upazila of Barisal to hold a meeting with the…

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Metro

March towards Indian HC foiled; 15 injured

Members of National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Port have yesterday submitted an open letter to Indian High Commission to seek Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s intervention to scrap the joint Indo-Bangla Rampal power plant project near the Sundarbans. A five…

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Editorial

Hazaribagh fiasco

According to a report published in this newspaper the government has once again extended the deadline to relocate tanneries from the capital’s Hazaribagh area to the newly-constructed tannery village at Savar. This is the seventh time the deadline has been extended. The blame should not be placed…

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Op-ed

Nobel Economics Prize for 2016

The penalties and fines imposed by the regulators on the banks for transacting specially breaching the anti sanction countries or persons is like pages of a horror book stories. It is really mind boggling to go through the numbers which some of these global banks had to pay as penalties. BNP Paribas…

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Miscellaneous

2 die in accident

Two vegetables traders identified as Shamim, 30, of Comilla and Yamin, 28, of Brahmanbaria, were killed and six others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and pick-up van on Dhaka-Chittagong highway at Baushia Pakhi Point early yesterday. Kamruzzaman Raj, in-charge of Bhaberchar police outpost,…

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Business

BTRC clears Robi-Airtel merger

Bangladesh’s first ever merger proposal of two mobile phone operators –Robi and Airtel has received the final approval from the telecom regulator. Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) in a commission meeting yesterday cleared the proposal terming it as a “positive…

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Worldwide

Russia halts Aleppo strikes ahead of brief truce

AFP, MOSCOW: Moscow announced Tuesday that Russian and Syrian air forces have stopped bombing Aleppo ahead of a brief truce, a move the Kremlin said showed “goodwill” as it faces mounting criticism for backing a brutal regime offensive. Russia had said Monday there would be an eight-hour…

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Dhakalive

‘Chapabaj’ to portray hilarious activities of two families

Throughout the years, audience-admired actor-director Hasan Jahangir has presented the viewers many popular tele-dramas and drama serials. An example of this would be the highly acclaimed-drama serial titled ‘Boyra Paribar’, which received immense appreciation from the viewers. Now, keeping…

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Sports

Shakib’s call to get mentally fit for Test

Bangladesh are going to play Test after a 14-month hiatus and so the panic-apprehension are peeking into the Tigers tent. But Mushfiq and com are making them with the best preparation to play the first Test against England at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium on Thursday. Bangladesh had played their…

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Nationwide

Good prices bring smile to betel nut growers

Betel nut growers of Noakhali and Laxmipur districts are happy with its good yield and fair price this season. Plucking is going on in full swing and several wholesale markets have been set up in the two districts. Department of Agriculture Extension sources said in the current season, 456 hectares…

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Build yourself as worthy citizens

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked the country’s children to prepare themselves as worthy citizens acquiring good knowledge through proper studies to have their own dignified place in this competitive world, reports UNB. “You’re the country’s future leaders...must be…

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Panorama

With vote approaching, third-party candidates face uphill climb

If third-party candidates have not won the modern American presidency, they have shaped elections in unpredictable ways. Gary Johnson and Jill Stein hold the wild cards this year, but the value of those cards typically diminishes as the election draws closer. The pattern of decline determines whether,…

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