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New initiative for HIV/AIDS communication strategy suggested

2007-10-20 00:00:00

Despite a still low HIV prevalence, various risk factors, including low level of knowledge and low condom use, are posing increasing threat of HIV/AIDS in the country for lack of proper communication strategy, reports UNB.Since the HIV/AIDS was first detected...

Six persons killed in separate incidents

2007-10-20 00:00:00

Six persons were killed and many others injured in separate incidents in different places of the country during the last two days, report agencies.In Madaripur, a man was killed and four others injured in a bloody clash between two rival...

Construction work of Bajalia bridge progressing fast

2007-10-20 00:00:00

BANDARBAN, Oct 19 (UNB): Construction work of 30-metre long Bajalia Bridge on the Bandarban-Keranihat road here is going on in full swing.Roads and Highways Department has been constructing the bridge at a cost of Tk 20 million.Official sources said heavy...

Rajshahi celebrates international poverty alleviation day

2007-10-20 00:00:00

Our CorrespondentRAJSHAHI, Oct-19: "Let all of us try to alleviate poverty" this was the slogan to celebrate the international poverty alleviation day in Rajshahi.Several hundred people gathered and formed human chain and organised cultural programme to celebrate the day in...

Five women held with Phensidyl

2007-10-20 00:00:00

JOYPURHAT, Oct 19 (UNB): RAB members arrested five women along with 129 bottles of Indian Phensidyl syrup from Raniganj bus stand area in Ghoraghat Upazila of Dinajpur district Thursday.Acting on tip off the elite force raided the area in the...

Dhaka Seismic Centre records a mild earthquake

2007-10-20 00:00:00

Dhaka Seismic Centre recorded a mild earthquake, measuring 4.1 on the Richter Scale, Friday, reports UNB.The tremor occurred at 04 hours 09 minutes 13 seconds and distance of the epicentre was about 216 kms from Agargaon, Dhaka Seismic Centre and...

Highwaymen loot valuables from bus passengers

2007-10-20 00:00:00

JESSORE, Oct 19 (UNB): Highwaymen looted cash and valuables worth over Tk .20 million from the passengers of a night coach near Humkura bridge on the Jessore-Narail road early Thursday, injuring 10 passengers.Sources said when the Narail bound night coach...

Reception to distinguished personalities

2007-10-20 00:00:00

CHITTAGONG, Oct 19 (UNB): Mirsarai Students' Association of Chittagong University has accorded a reception to five distinguished personalities of the upazila in recognition of their contribution in their respective fields.They are-- Nurul Anwar, founder Chairman of CU's Microbiology Department, MM...

Housewife violated

2007-10-20 00:00:00

MANIKGANJ, Oct 19 (UNB): A housewife was violated by a gang of miscreants at Charipara village in Shibalaya Upazila Wednesday night.Local people said the gang led by Nazmul of the area stormed into the house of the housewife, mother of...

city events

2007-10-20 00:00:00

Rotary Club of Dhaka CentralThe regular meeting of the Rotary Club of Dhaka Central will be held today (Saturday) at 1.30pm at Dhaka Club in the city. Rotarians are invited to attend. — FE Report Orientation ceremony at Eastern UniversityThe...

When justice dispensed is half-baked

2007-10-20 00:00:00

Maswood Alam KhanTRUTH always triumphs when both truth and falsity are allowed to freewheel in an open society. But the reverse is true when truth has to play under duress. Throughout history, ironically, truth had to ride uphill under coercion...

When justice dispensed is half-baked

2007-10-20 00:00:00

Maswood Alam KhanTRUTH always triumphs when both truth and falsity are allowed to freewheel in an open society. But the reverse is true when truth has to play under duress. Throughout history, ironically, truth had to ride uphill under coercion...

When justice dispensed is half-baked

2007-10-20 00:00:00

Maswood Alam KhanTRUTH always triumphs when both truth and falsity are allowed to freewheel in an open society. But the reverse is true when truth has to play under duress. Throughout history, ironically, truth had to ride uphill under coercion...

Relating to 2007 flood

2007-10-20 00:00:00

Dr K. M. Nabiul IslamThe country has been hit by flood for the second time this year largely due to heavy downpour both within and outside the country. A few lakh people were newly marooned while some took shelter on...

Greenspan doesn't expect a rapid decline in dollar

2007-10-20 00:00:00

Kim Kyoungwha and William SinFormer Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan doesn't expect a rapid decline in the dollar should nations sell more of their holdings of U.S. Treasuries, according to people attending a forum in Seoul today. ``When asked whether...

CEC denies reports about invitation to BNP Secy Gen for dialogue

2007-10-20 00:00:00

Chief Election Commi-ssioner (CEC) ATM Shamsul Huda Friday denied some newspaper reports that the Commission has decided to invite BNP secretary general Khondoker Delwar Hossain for dialogue on electoral reforms, reports UNB."I flatly deny the reports… We've not taken any...

Nizami urges all to help govt hand over power to elected govt

2007-10-20 00:00:00

Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Maulana Matiur Rahman Nizami has urged all concerned to play their due role from their respective position so that the government could hand over power to an elected government after holding a corruption-free meaningful election, reports UNB."The Election...

RAB captures 12 alleged criminals

2007-10-20 00:00:00

RAJSHAHI, Oct 19 (BSS): The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested 12 alleged criminals, including six drug peddlers, and seized a firearm, nine cocktails and 211 bottles and 10 kilogrammes of loose Phensidyl from different areas in the region in the...

Ashraf again claim themselves as mainstream BNP

2007-10-20 00:00:00

Expelled BNP joint secretary-general Ashraf Hossain again claimed themselves as mainstream BNP, saying that in accordance with BNP constitution, the Election Commission (EC) must sit with them for dialogue on electoral reforms, reports UNB.He made the remark to journalists at...

Jamaat to sit with EC on Oct 25

2007-10-20 00:00:00

Jamaat-e-Islami Friday decided to sit in talks on electoral reforms with the Election Commission (EC) on Oct 25, reports bdnews24.com. The party's policymaking Majlish-e-Shura also decided to table proposals before the EC on reforms to the election laws and has...

125 dead as bombs target Benazir

2007-10-20 00:00:00

KARACHI, Oct 19 (AFP): A suicide bombing targeting former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto killed at least 125 people, turning her emotional homecoming parade after eight years in exile into a scene of carnage Friday. Bhutto was unhurt, escaping with...

EU leaders approve new treaty

2007-10-20 00:00:00

LISBON, Oct 19 (AFP): EU leaders approved a new treaty early Friday to replace the aborted constitution, after overcoming last-ditch obstacles, the bloc's Portuguese presidency said. "It's done, there's an agreement," a spokesman for the presidency said after late-night summit...

Bush made 'rhetorical point' in warning of WW III: White House

2007-10-20 00:00:00

WASHINGTON, OCT 19 (AP): The White House says President George W. Bush was simply making "a rhetorical point" when he suggested that if Iran could make nuclear weapons, it could lead to World War III. "The president was not making...

Moonlight inspires reef-building corals to spawning

2007-10-20 00:00:00

WASHINGTON, OCT 19 (AP): Scientists think they may have found out how reef-building corals manage to coordinate their sex lives in moonlight.In late spring it is reef madness as corals release sperm and eggs into the water for a few...

Too young to drive, but old enough for life in prison

2007-10-20 00:00:00

WASHINGTON, Oct 19 (AFP): More than 70 inmates in US prisons were 13 or 14 years old when they committed their crimes-too young to drive or watch a scary movie but old enough to spend the rest of their lives...

DNA Nobelist apologises over racial comments

2007-10-20 00:00:00

NEW YORK, OCT 19 (AP): James Watson, the 79-year-old scientific icon made famous by his work in DNA, has set off an international furor with comments to a London newspaper about intelligence levels among blacks.The renowned Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory,...

Iraq Kurds vow to fight if region attacked

2007-10-20 00:00:00

ARBIL, Iraq, Oct 19 (AFP): Iraq's autonomous Kurds vowed Friday to fight off any attack on their region, as Turkey mulled a military incursion to crack down on Kurdish rebels. "We frankly say to all parties if they attacked the...

India, Pakistan talk to ease nuclear tensions

2007-10-20 00:00:00

NEW DELHI, Oct 19 (AFP): India and Pakistan opened talks Friday aimed at cutting the risk of accidents with nuclear weapons and developing further cooperation in the arms arena, officials said. The one-day meeting is part of a peace process...

news digest

2007-10-20 00:00:00

29 dead as Indonesian ship sinks JAKARTA, Oct 19 (AFP): At least 29 people were killed and 125 rescued after an Indonesian ship sank in high seas off the island of Sulawesi, officials said Friday. Residents near the town of...

Japan probes US soldiers over gang rape

2007-10-20 00:00:00

TOKYO, Oct 19 (AFP): Japanese police are investigating four US soldiers on allegations of gang-raping a woman in Hiroshima, officials said Friday. The TBS television network said the four US Marines met the 20-year-old woman, whom they did not know,...