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Death toll may hit 100,000 Myanmar's military government came under pressure on Wednesday to open its borders to more international help after a devastating cyclone that a U.S. diplomat said may have killed more than 100,000 people, reports Reuters. Washington, a vocal critic of the junta that has ruled the former Burma for more than four decades, said humanitarian access |
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Chief adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed has said that the works of Rabindranath Tagore are a source of inspiration to build a society full of enlightenment and free of prejudices, reports bdnews24.com. "Rabindranath is significant in the determination and expectations of our national life," the CA said Thursday in his speech to a programme marking the 147th birth anniversary of world poet Rabindranath Tagore at Osmani Memorial Auditorium. |
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Bdnews24.com The European Union (EU) ambassadors in Dhaka have said that the next general elections can still be free, fair and credible even if boycotted by the Awami League and the BNP. They said the next parliamentary polls were essential for sustainable democracy in Bangladesh. |
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Bdnews24.com Bangladesh military Thursday sent a second consignment of relief to Myanmar and promised to continue the nation's efforts to stand by the cyclone-battered people in the neighbouring country. A Bangladesh Air Force aircraft carried 10 tonnes of materials including medicines, dry food, tents and plastic sheets from Kurmitola Air Movement base Wednesday. |
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Bdnews24.com The BNP will submit memoranda to upazila nirbahi officers and deputy commissioners, starting Sunday, to press its demand for the release of former prime minister Khaleda Zia and other ‘political prisoners’, Khandaker Delwar Hossain said.
Delwar, secretary general of a faction of the troubled party, announced a 10-point charter of demands and weeklong programmes in a press briefing on his NAM flat Thursday. |
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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. |
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
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REUTERS, ISLAMABAD - Pakistan successfully tested a nuclear-capable, air-launched cruise missile with a range of 350 km on Thursday, the military said, a day after India tested a long-range missile. The Hatf-VIII (Ra'ad) missile had been developed exclusively for launch from aircraft, a military statement said. |
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
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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. |
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
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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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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
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Bdnews24.com The Anticorruption Commission Thursday approved a chargesheet against 24 people, including former prime minister Khaleda Zia, in the GATCO corruption case, a senior official said. |
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
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Former India batsman cites professional commitments Cricinfo.com Sunil Gavaskar, who was asked to choose between his ICC role and his media commitments due to a potential conflict of interest, has decided to end his eight-year stint as chairman of its cricket committee. The executive board of the ICC had found Gavaskar's dual roles untenable, and had authorised its CEO, Malcolm Speed, to ask him to convey his position when the committee met on May 5-6. Speed has since gone on leave. |
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
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REUTERS, ISLAMABAD - Leaders of Pakistan's ruling coalition are due to meet in London this week to resolve differences over how to reinstate judges dismissed in November by President Pervez Musharraf, officials said on Thursday. Strains over the issue within the month-old coalition, led by the party of assassinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, have raised speculation that the anti-Musharraf alliance could collapse, though party leaders have asserted their unity. |
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
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A European team will arrive in Dhaka in June to recommend whether the EU should send observers to Bangladesh for the upcoming ninth parliamentary elections, reports bdnews4.com. "The exploratory mission is likely to arrive in Bangladesh in June," Dr Stefan Frowein, head of the delegation of the European Commission in Dhaka, told reporters at a press conference at Dhaka Sheraton Hotel, which was organised to mark European Day. |
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
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The first United Nations relief flights started to arrive on Thursday for cyclone victims in military-ruled Myanmar as a U.S. diplomat said that more than 100,000 people may have been killed, reports Reuters. The cyclone slammed into coastal towns and villages in the rice-growing Irrawaddy delta southwest of Yangon on Saturday, the most devastating storm to hit Asia since 1991, when 143,000 people were killed in neighboring Bangladesh. |
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
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REUTERS, YANGON - The United States is still waiting for approval from Myanmar to start military aid flights for survivors of Cyclone Nargis, its ambassador to Bangkok said on Thursday. "This morning, we and our Thai allies thought we had a decision from the Burmese leadership to let the C-130 in. As of now, we don't have that decision," U.S. ambassador Eric John told a news conference in the Thai capital. |
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
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The team had set out six hours earlier for a final summit push in an event that had been delayed for about two weeks due to adverse weather. The event was the most ambitious part of what has become the longest and most controversial Olympic torch relay in history. |
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
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Vladimir Putin will retain a "key role" in Russia for years as prime minister, new President Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday, as the two men opened an unprecedented era of dual rule, report agencies. Putin was confirmed as prime minister by 392 of the 448 deputies at an extraordinary session of the lower house of parliament, the State Duma, one day after Medvedev was inaugurated at a lavish Kremlin ceremony. |
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
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REUTERS, WASHINGTON - Russia has ordered the expulsion of two U.S. military attaches from the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, said the State Department on Thursday. "They have been asked to leave. |
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
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REUTERS, KHOST, Afghanistan - The announcement over the military address system echoed ominously across the U.S. base in southeastern Afghanistan, freezing soldiers in their tracks. "Attention on the FOB! Attention on the FOB!" the voice boomed in the darkness, addressing Forward Operating Base Salerno, a camp 20 km from the Pakistan border. |
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
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REUTERS, LONDON - British police charged four men on Thursday with conspiring to support the Sri Lankan rebel group the Tamil Tigers. Arunachalam Chrishanthakumar, 51, Jegatheswaran Muraleetharan, 46, Jeyatheswaran Vythyatharan, 39, and Murugesu Jegatheeswaran, 33, will all appear at Westminster Magistrates Court later on Thursday. |
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