Dhaka Division

Scientists urge drastic action at Copenhagen climate meet

Scientists urge drastic action at Copenhagen climate meet Canada.com Suriya Begum, a slum dweller in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, holds her baby in this Aug, 24, 2009 portrait. The 18-year-old moved from the southern coast to...

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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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Rana may have helped Bangalore blasts accused flee India

Posted: Thursday , Nov 26, 2009 at 0245 hrs Bangalore: Around November 22, 2008, six days after Tahawwur Rana, 48, one of two Pakistan origin US citizens at the centre of a FBI terror investigation, visited Kochi, ostensibly as...

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Conflict-ridden BNP units get more time

The main opposition BNP has extended the deadline for completing the councils of its district units to November 30 as it could not achieve the goal within yesterday’s last date because of tremendous intra-party conflicts. The...

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Dhaka begins mutiny trial of border guards!

Updated on Wednesday, November 25, 2009, 14:03 IST Tags: Dhaka: Nine troopers of Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) were on Wednesday produced before a special court for their role in a bloody mutiny in February that left 74 people dead....

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Docs say formerly conjoined twins recovering well

In this August 2009, image provided by the Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, 2-year-old Bangladeshi orphan, Trishna, is seen at the Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne in Australia. A team of Australian surgeons were working...

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Bangladesh foils 26/11 anniversary plot

Praveen Swami MUMBAI: Bangladesh authorities say they have disrupted a Lashkar-e-Taiba attack plot timed to coincide with the anniversary of last year’s terrorist attacks in Mumbai. Police in Dhaka say Kannur-origin Lashkar...

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Home-goers flock to city exit points

With Eid-ul-Azha only three days away, thousands of city dwellers have started to leave Dhaka to celebrate the second largest religious festival of the Muslims with their near and dear ones. The mad rush of homebound people,...

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138 RMG units run unrest risk

Police and intelligence agencies suspect unrest may arise in 138 garment factories in Dhaka and its outskirts over non-payment of salaries and bonuses before Eid-ul-Azha. Dhaka Metropolitan Police has prepared a list of 93...

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Striking power memo penned

Dhaka has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Delhi seeking open-ended import and export of power with the option to purchase power from both public and private sectors of India, said a top official of the Power...

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