3rd National Women’s Hockey to kick off Monday

    UNB The 3rd National Women’s Hockey League will begin at Maulana Bhashani Hockey Stadium on Monday. Nine district teams — Dhaka, Rajshahi, Narail, Rangpur, Kishoreganj, Dinajpur, Patuakhali, Jhenaidah and Thakurgaon — split in three groups will take part in the seven-day meet.   Private TV channel ‘ATN Bangla’ will live telecast the inauguration match and…

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      2 workers electrocuted in city

      UNB Two construction workers died and two others were injured from electrocution in the city’s Badda area on Saturday afternoon.   The deceased were identified as M Monir Hossain, 45, and Badshah Miah, 32, while the injured are Sajib and Raju.   Quoting the injured, Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) police camp in-charge Mozammel Haque…

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        Schoolteacher crushed under truck in Sirajganj

        UNB A schoolteacher was killed in a road accident at Shyamoli Para bus stop in Ullahpara upazila on Saturday morning.   Officer-in-charge of Hatikumrul Highway Police Station Abdul Kader Jilani said Korban Ali, 45, headmaster of Mohonpur High School and a resident of Khaduli village of the upazila, was severely injured when a speeding truck…

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          2 minor brothers found dead in Comilla

            UNB Two minor brothers were found dead at Dhulipara in Sadar South upazila on Saturday.   Police recovered the bodies of Joy, 7, and his younger brother Moni, 5, sons of Abul Kalam of the area, in the afternoon.   Victims’ father Abul Kalam said he along with his wife Rekha Akhter found the…

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            CMP wants to record sedition case against Star editor

              UNB The Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) has sought Home Ministry’s permission to accept a complaint as a sedition case against The Daily Star editor Mahfuz Anam.   Inspector Nur Hossain (Investigation) of Kotwali Police Station sent a letter to the Home Ministry on Saturday in this regard.   Sitakunda upazila chairman and district (North)…

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              Uttara gas blast death toll now 3

              UNB After the two children, now the father who was injured in the Uttara gas explosion on Friday died at the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on Saturday evening. Shahnewaz, 50, an employee of the US Embassy in Dhaka, succumbed to his injuries around 5:55pm, hospital sources said.   Earlier, Shahnewaz’s two…

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                Inu blasts BNP for “no confidence” attitude to poll results

                BSS Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu today came down heavily on the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) for its growing “no confidence” attitude towards the results of the elections in which the party was defeated. “The BNP did not accept the results of the elections in which the party was defeated … it also expressed “no…

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                  Retreating winter makes room for summer

                  BSS Temperatures have risen across the country on an average by two degree Celsius in the past few days as a retreating winter makes room for the summer to take over soon, an official of Met Office told BSS. The winter is packing up as steady rise in temperature signals its retreat for past several…

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