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Bangladesh ferry deaths rise

At least seven people have died and scores are missing following a ferry accident in the south of Bangladesh. MV Coco-4, which was carrying more than 1,000 people, was travelling overnight from Dhaka, the capital, to Bhola...

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14 killed in Bangladesh road accidents

From correspondents in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 08:06 PM IST At least 14 people were killed and 100 injured in four road accidents during Eid-ul-Azha as people rushed home to celebrate the festival with their families. The accidents...

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Anti-Mujib Bangladesh 1975 coup hatched by pro-Pakistan military officers

The home of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangladesh, sits down a tree-lined street in an affluent corner of the capital, Dhaka. Tourists and locals file into the compound daily to view its insides and his...

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Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf a hit on streets of Dhaka

Mabul generally sells six copies of the book in a day Booksellers touting their wares amid the heavy traffic in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, have discovered an unusual best-seller. Adolf Hitler's autobiography manifesto Mein...

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(AHN) Bangladesh Plans To Launch Satellite For Development Of Telecom Services

The Bangladesh government has planed to launch its own communications satellite aiming to develop the country's telecommunications services, Post and Telecommunications Minister Raziuddin Ahmed Raju said in Dhaka on Thursday.

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(AHN) Bangladesh's Call Money Rate Stable Before Eid Festival

The inter-bank call money rate maintained a stable trend on Thursday, the last working day before the Eid festival, because of the strengthened open market operations by the central bank of Bangladesh.

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Louis Kahn, monuments to sensation. Or: is the director … ? pt. 2a

With time, things lose their harshness and asperity. They are seen differently, and sometimes vanish from view. Time’s shrinking of the little that remains is to be fully accepted; one knows that time is limited, yet it is vast...

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Details awaited on man held in Dhaka

KOCHI: The State police are awaiting confirmation of the identity of a man arrested in Bangladesh recently who is believed to be Thadiyantevide Nazir, accused in the Kalamassery bus-burning and the Bangalore serial blasts...

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Bangladesh prepares to celebrate Saturday's grand Eid-ul-Azha festival

DHAKA, Nov. 26 (Xinhua) -- With only one day remaining for holy Eid-ul-Azha, the Bangladeshi government is gearing up preparations to support people in the Muslim-majority country to celebrate the Saturday's second biggest...

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Feature: Bangladeshi 6-year-old boy loves to learn Chinese

By Huang Yanan DHAKA, Nov. 26 (Xinhua) -- Sadaqat Omar, a six-year-old boy who lives in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka, has a dream to visit China after learning Chinese for one and half years. Teaching Sadaqat Chinese is the...

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