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Rid Pharma officials cleared

A Dhaka court yesterday acquitted all five officials of Rid Pharmaceuticals Ltd in a case filed over the manufacture of a toxic Paracetamol syrup that killed 28 children across Bangladesh in 2009. The acquitted are: Rid Pharma managing director Mizanur Rahman, directors Sheuli Rahman, the wife of Mizanur Rahman, and Abdul Gani, and pharmacists Mahbubul Islam and Enamul Haque. Mizanur Rahman and his wife Sheuli Rahman are currently on bail, while the other three are still at large. Judge M Atoar Rahman of the Dhaka Drug Court passed the acquittal order yesterday morning. In its order, the court said the charges brought against the accused could not be proven due to the 'incapability and inefficiency' of the investigator. From June to…

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Govt uncomfortable over Rohingya refugee crisis

The Awami League (AL)-led government finds itself in a soup because of recent developments in the longstanding…

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Govt to prepare database on pornography websites

The posts and telecommunications division (PTD) has taken a move to prepare a database of the websites spreading “pornography” and “objectionable contents” in cyber space, said officials. To this end, it has formed a committee, headed by a director general of Bangladesh Telecommunication…

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Metro

12 robbers surrender with arms in Barisal

A total of 12 riverine robbers, including one gang leader with huge arms, have surrendered to RAB in presence of Home Minister Asaduzaman Khan Kamal, MP, at RAB-8 Complex in the city yesterday afternoon. Welcoming them, the minister alerted the patronisers of the robbers and said otherwise “We…

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Editorial

Dhaka-Ctg route to get high-speed trains

According to Planning Commission and the railways ministry sources, the government is planning to introduce high-speed trains on the country’s most important route: Dhaka-Chittagong rail route. The key reason for the said planning is to reduce travel time by two hours from the existing six to…

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Op-ed

Endeavours to change the world

Recently it has become a very common phenomenon in the context of modern world that people are being motivated to act like just programmable robots. In most of the cases, they are static in nature although they are travelling through a specific circle. They just follow the rigorous routine oriented…

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Miscellaneous

Hartal observed

Khagrachhari: The day-long hartal was observed in Manikchhari upazila, enforced by Parbatya Bangali Chhatra Parishad, protesting an alleged rape incident in the upazila, reports UNB. No vehicle was seen plying the roads while no long-route bus left the upazila. Additional police forces have been…

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Business

Trade through Teknaf land port at a standstill

Owing to the unstable situation on the Bangladesh-Myanmar border, trade between the two countries has come to a standstill during the last two months. Businessmen expressed grave concern and demanded that steps be taken to normailse the situation as early as possible. Trading, including export…

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Worldwide

Cuba set for farewell for historic leader Fidel Castro

AFP, HAVANA: Nightclubs closed, baseball games were suspended and booze was banned Sunday as Cuba prepared to send off revolutionary leader Fidel Castro with days of tributes and a cross-country funeral procession.Cubans braced for a series of events to commemorate the life of the man who ruled the…

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Dhakalive

Five-day extravaganza ends with thrilling performances

The fifth edition of the Bengal Classical Music Festival (BCMF 2016) --the world’s biggest classical music festival in terms of the number of performers on a single stage, audience capacity and duration--ends with a thrilling night, which was full of fascinating performances by the both local…

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Sports

Resurgent Ctg do not want to look back

Resurgent Chittagong Vikings will face-off Khulna Titans in day’s second match of the third phase of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium (SBNCS) at 5:45pm today. This will be the second encounter for Chittagong and Khulna. Titans edged past Chittagong…

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Nationwide

Run-down Lalmonirhat-Burimari road hurts import-export trade

A 10-km stretch of the Lalmonirhat-Burimari road from Borobari to Mahendranagar and from Namuri Bazar to Palashi Bazar has become a death trap for trucks and other vehicles because of its worsening condition over the past few months.Crater-like potholes are causing frequent vehicle breakdown, resulting…

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No new private edn instts without permission

Henceforth, permission will have to be taken for opening private educational institutions. Education ministry sources said the decision was taken to streamline such institutions from the secondary to the college level as they faced various problems in the past. Till now, anybody could set up an institution…

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Panorama

Inside the murky world of counterfeit money

The product is carefully created in rural facilities throughout the Peruvian countryside using cheap labor, then hoarded in stash houses controlled by violent gangs in Lima. Once there, the goods are packed into parcels, loaded onto planes or hidden inside luggage, pottery, hollowed-out Bibles, sneakers,…

Events in space may have changed course of evolution

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