Septuagenarian rapes 7-yr girl

    Kabir Humayun: A second-grader girl was violated by a septuagenarian in Gojanagar area in Nabinagar municipality of Brahmanbaria district on Friday. Kulsuma Begum, victim’s mother, filed a case with Nabinagar Police Station on the day of the incident, reports UNB. Till Sunday, police had still failed to arrest the main accused although they have detained…

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      ‘Robber’ killed in Rajbari ‘gunfight’

      Kabir Humayun: A suspected robber was killed in a ‘gunfight’ with police personnel in Ongkurpur area of Baliakandi upazila in the district on Sunday. Deceased Badu Sheikh, 40, hailing from Gobinadapur village was an accused in seven robbery cases, reports UNB. Hasina Begum, officer-in-charge of Baliakandi Police Station, said a team of police conducted a…

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        US Bangla: Nepal newspaper report ‘fictitious’, ‘irreverent’

        Kabir Humayun: Rejecting a Nepal newspaper report over the investigation findings carried out by the Nepal authority on the US-Bangla aircraft crash, US-Bangla Airlines said the report was ‘fictitious’ and ‘irreverent’. Talking to The Daily Star over the exclusive report of Kathmandu Post, Kamrul Islam, general manager (marketing support and public relations) of US-Bangla Airlines…

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          FY19 investment likely to exceed gross nat’l savings

          Desk Report: The country’s gross investment is projected to exceed its gross national savings in this fiscal year (FY), 2018-19, apparently due to rise in the public sector investment, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), reports Financial Express. The gross investment is projected to stand at 32.3 per cent of the gross domestic product…

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            Bangladesh to bank on Madrasa teachers’ Arabic skills

            Desk report: The government is now aiming to train thousands of Madrasah teachers in information and communication technology (ICT) and modern Arabic to increase their employability overseas, especially to tap further the Middle East job market, reports the financial express. The Ministry of Education has recently chalked out a project, under which 19,200 Madrasah teachers…

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              Ctg war heroine suffers at ICU

              Sayeed Muhammad: Rama Chowdhury, one of the 200,000 Biranganas of the Liberation War, has been suffering old age complications at Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Chittagong Medical College Hospital. Parts of her body swelled up due to shortage of blood, with blood pressure gone out of control, making it concerning to revive to life, Alauddin…

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                Iran and Syria sign deal for military cooperation

                Reuters: Iran and Syria signed a deal for military cooperation in a meeting between the defense ministers of the two countries in Damascus, the Tasnim news agency reported on Monday. Iranian Defence Minister Amir Hatami traveled to Damascus on Sunday for a two-day visit, meeting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and senior military officials, Tasnim reported….

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                  Earth has more moons than you might think

                  Big Think: For nearly four billion years, Earth and the Moon have been inseparable as they’ve journeyed together through the cosmic void. It’s our only permanent satellite we’ll ever know. But new research has unearthed (…unmooned?) evidence that our planet occasionally captures “mini-moons” every once in a while. These tiny asteroids zoom around our planet…

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