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A Dhaka court Thursday sentenced former state minister Amanullah Aman to seven years in jail on charges of extorting money from a Keraniganj businessman, reports bdnews24.com

The sixth additional district and sessions judge for Dhaka, Altaf Hossain, also fined Amanullah Tk 1 lakh.

Relatives Thursday met detained former prime minister Sheikh Hasina in special jail on the Jatiya Sangsad complex, a senior prisons official said, reports bdnews24.com.

Major Shamsul Haider Siddiqui, deputy inspector general of prisons, told bdnews24.com that six relatives including two children had met Hasina.

REUTERS, JAMMU, India - A bus veered off a mountain road in Indian Kashmir on Thursday and fell into a river, killing at least 28 people, police said.

The bus skidded off the road while negotiating a sharp bend and rolled down 300 feet into the Chenab River, police and witnesses said.

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The Anticorruption Commission Wednesday submitted a chargesheet against former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and eight others in a Niko scam case.

The ACC handed the chargesheet to Tejgaon

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Agriculture adviser CS Karim has recommended increasing potato intake in food menu instead of changing the food habit. "Potato production has seen a great success this year.

This year the growth of potatoes has been recorded at 60 percent," the adviser said Wednesday in his speech to the inauguration of a three-day national campaign for people to increase potato intake.

Lalbagh murder case

A Dhaka court sentenced two people to death and nine other accused to life imprisonment in a verdict Wednesday in the sensational Lalbagh seven-murder case, reports bdnews24.com.

Among other accused, one got 12 years in prison, eight were acquitted and another man was cleared of the charges as he died before the verdict was delivered.

Rangs Bhaban Collapse

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The police retrieved the remains of a dead security guard from the rubble of Rangs Bhaban Wednesday, five months after several floors of the building came crashing down, a police officer said.

The skeleton of Shahidul Islam, 23, has been sent to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgue.

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A contingent of Bangladesh army with relief materials Wednesday headed for 'Nargis' ravaged Myanmar as per government decision, an Inter-Services Public Relations directorate press release issued Wednesday said.

The five-member group led by Brig Gen Taslimuddin Khan will hand over the relief materials to the Myanmar authorities.

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US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard A. Boucher is due to arrive in Bangladesh Thursday on a two day visit, the US embassy said in a statement Wednesday.

During his visit, Boucher will hold discussions with senior government officials and members of civil society on a range of issues, including progress on the electoral roadmap, development and other bilateral issues, the statement said.

Chief election commissioner ATM Shamsul Huda Wednesday briefed president Iajuddin Ahmed on progress in voter registration and implementation of the election roadmap, reports bdnews24.com.

"We told the president that 83 percent of voters have already been registered. Listing the rest will be done by June. Work on voter lists with photographs will be completed by October," Huda told reporters after the meeting with the president at the Bangabhaban.

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Khandaker Delwar Hossain, secretary general of a BNP faction, said Wednesday the BNP would announce programmes in a couple of days to press the demand for the release of former prime minister Khaleda Zia.

After a meeting on his NAM flat in the afternoon, Delwar told reporters: "We discussed probable programmes for the release of our detained leader at the meeting.

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The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court is set to deliver a verdict Thursday on a government appeal against the High Court verdict that scrapped a graft case against former prime minister Sheikh Hasina.

A full bench of chief justice Md Ruhul Amin will deliver the verdict. The appeal tops Thursday's work list of the Appellate Division.

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The government is making a set of guidelines to make formal dialogue with political parties transparent, the commerce adviser said Wednesday.

The government also plans to sit with small political parties all together, Hossain Zillur Rahman told reporters after a meeting of four advisers on dialogue in law adviser AF Hassan Ariff's office.

Offshore gas exploration

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The government is determined to sign deals with oil and gas companies for exploration of new offshore gas fields by October to meet the country's growing energy needs, an energy official said Wednesday.

Muqtadir Ali, a director of the government-run Petrobangla, said one domestic and six international companies from countries including the United States and China, have taken part in the bidding to explore gas fields in the Bay of Bengal.

Thirty seven Bangladeshi fishermen, who were in jail in Myanmar in the last three months, returned home Wednesday, reports agency.

Myanmar border security force Nasaka caught the fishermen, all residents of Teknaf, when they went to catch fish in sea three month back.

Traffic on the road from Bahaddarhat to Kalurghat in the port city screeched to a halt for six hours Tuesday as the garment workers at Kalurghat BSCIC industrial district blockaded the streets over pay hike, reports bdnews24.com. The rampaging workers