2 sweepers found dead in Faridpur

    UNB Two sweepers were found dead with their bodies carrying stab injuries at West Khabashpur Miapara Road in Faridpur district town early Friday. Miscreants stabbed to death the two municipality sweepers, Manik Jamaddar,28, and his brother-in-law Bharat Jamaddar, 23, residents of Harijan Polli in Alipur area, while doing cleaning work on the road early in…

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      Road crashes kills 2 in Tangail

      UNB Two people were killed and three others injured when a truck rammed a CNG-run auto-rickshaw at Rasulpur in Sadar upazila on Friday. The accident took place around 6:30 am when a Mymensingh-bound truck from Tangail hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw coming from the opposite direction, leaving two passengers of the auto-rickshaw killed on the spot…

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        Man held with 1,033 bottles of Phensidyl

        UNB Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested a man along with 1,033 bottles of Indian Phensidyl syrup from Bir Shrestha Mohiuddin Jahangir Bridge in Sadar uapzila on Thursday. Tipped off, a joint team of Rab from Rajshahi and Natone camps conducted a drive in the area around 5pm and recovered 1,033 bottles of Phensidyl…

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          Throat-slit body of youth found in Joypurhat

          UNB Police recovered the throat-slit body of a young man from his house at Golahar village in Khetlal upazila on Friday afternoon. Officer-in-charge of Khetlal Police Station Munirul Islam said family members noticed the body of Dulal Hossain, son of Abdul Motaleb, lying on the floor of his room at about 12:30 pm. On information,…

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            Man gets life term for violating minor

            UNB A tribunal here on Thursday sentenced a man to life term imprisonment for raping a minor girl in Patharghata upazila in 2009. The court also fined the convict, identified as Babu, son of Kuddus of Lathimara village in the same upazila, Tk 1 lakh. According to the prosecution, the convict violated the four-year girl,…

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              Chairman of BRB Group win President’s Award

              Nazrul Islam Mukul, Kushtia Alhaj Md. Mozibar Rahman, Chairman of BRB Cable Industries recently received the President’s Award. Representatives of the Kushtia Sangbadik Union went to the chairman’s office and congratulated him on winning such a prestigious award on Thursday. Mozibar Rahman stated, “The honor of winning this award does not belong to BRB alone….

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                Gemcon Golf Cup begins in Rangpur

                BSS, Rangpur The three-day fifth “Gemcon Golf Tournament- 2016” kicked off on Friday morning on the Golf Ground of Rangpur Cantonment in the city. The Gemcon Group has been sponsoring the tournament being organised by Rangpur Golf Club (RGC). More than 100 contestants including males, females, junior and sub-junior golfers from different golf clubs of…

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                  Key countries back unity govt in stabilizing Libya

                  AP, United Nations Britain, France and Russia on Thursday backed the new U.N.-brokered unity government in Libya and called for international support for its efforts to reunite and stabilize the deeply divided country. Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said creating a central authority that can work effectively throughout the country is especially important “in light…

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                    FlyDubai Plane crash: Russia issues first report

                    AP, Moscow Russia’s civil aviation authority has issued its first report on last month’s crash of a FlyDubai plane in south-western Russia, shedding light on what caused the sudden descent that killed all 62 people on board. The Interstate Aviation Committee said Friday that a nose-down shift in the horizontal stabilizer occurred as the crew…

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                      Turkey, Israel expected to restore ties soon

                      AP, Ankara Turkey’s Foreign Ministry says Turkish and Israeli officials have made progress on an agreement to normalize frayed ties and that a deal is expected to be reached soon. A ministry statement issued early on Friday said officials who met in London on Thursday agreed to finalize the deal during their next meeting “which…

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