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ideal school and college result held

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Today motijheel ideal school and college result held. Today the management selected 60 boys for the new session in the lottery system.In 17/12/2011  60 lucky girls are allowed to attend the nesw session.All boys parents are attended the lottery ceremony.

1 dead in Motijheel bomb blast

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1 died in motijheel infront of dse.
A bomb has exploded in the city's busy Motijheel area, leaving one man dead and another wounded.

Meanwhile, at least four cars were torched in separate incidents in the capital on Sunday.

Police could not immediately confirm who were behind the explosion but it took place barely one hour after police dispersed a gathering of the main opposition BNP on Sunday.

Police used batons to disperse the gathering organised to honour freedom fighters in the city's Institution of Engineers.

The BNP supporters and freedom fighters from across the country gathered at the auditorium of the IEB around 8am on Sunday to attend the progrmme.

Police swooped on them and arrested some BNP supporters while they allegedly created chaos there, police said.

Officer in-charge of Shahbagh police station Rezaul Karim told  that police had to act as BNP supporters were trying to block the busy road in front of the IEB.

He said that they detained a few BNP supporters but refused to say how many.

Within an hour of the melee, unidentified people torched two cars including a police van at Shantinagar while a third one near Shilpa Bhaban in Motijheel.

Another car was torched in Farmgate.

Police could not immediately identify the responsible.

Dense fog blinds Ctg airport

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Flight operations at the city's Shah Amanat International Airport were disrupted on Saturday morning due to dense fog.

Some domestic flights landed at the airport long after their scheduled arrival.

According to the Chittagong airport control room, no domestic flights from Dhaka came to Chittagong due to heavy fog on Saturday morning. Flight operations in the port city resumed around 11am.

Airport manager squadron leader Anis Ahmed told  that three international flights landed in Chittagong instead of Dhaka due to dense fog in the capital as well.

"A flight each from Singapore, Hong Kong and Bangkok couldn't land in Dhaka due to heavy fog. They landed in Chittagong at late (Friday) night," he said. "The flights left for Dhaka after the fog gave way in the morning."

The biting chill and the fog also left life paralysed in the city on Saturday, with office-goers having to fend for themselves since few public transports were available in the morning.

Chittagong maritime port secretary Syed Farhad Uddin told  that loading and unloading at the jetties and outer anchorage of the country's premier port were as usual.

Meghnad Tonchonga, an official at Patenga meteorological office, said there could be moderate to heavy fog in the morning and night till Sunday.

Int'l Bengali meet at DU from Sunday

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The second edition of the International Congress of Bengal Studies will begin at Dhaka University (DU) from Sunday.

Finance minister A M A Muhith is scheduled to inaugurate the three-day conference, being organised jointly by the Bangla Academy and DU.

Addressing the media at the university's old senate building on Saturday, conference convenor Prof Rafikullah said the International Congress of Bengal Studies started in 2008 with an aim to unveil the achievements of Bengali language, literature, culture over the last thousand years and more.

The conference also focuses on showcasing the present reality, Prof Rafikullah said.

Researchers, teachers and students of various universities from home and abroad are expected to attend the international conference.

DU vice-chancellor A A M S Arefin Siddique, professor emeritus Dr Toshiyoshi Nara of Tokyo University of Foreign Studies in Japan and professor emeritus Dr Anisuzzaman were present at the media conference.

Dr Anisuzzaman is the academic president of the conference.

The first International Congress of Bengal Studies was held at Delhi University in India in February last year.

Times supplement on Bangladesh Monday

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The government will publish a special supplement on Bangladesh in the British daily The Times.

As many as 1.8 million copies of the 12-page supplement will be printed on Monday.

"This is part of an ongoing effort for image-building of the nation abroad," foreign ministry external publicity wing director general Shameem Ahsan told  on Saturday.

The government is paying Upper Reach, a UK-based media agency, $150,000 or Tk 12.5 million, for writing the supplement.

The publication will contain interviews of the finance, foreign, industries and tourism ministers and that of the central bank governor.

"The private sector has been highlighted in the supplement. There is an article on the NGO BRAC," Shameem said. Another major issue covered in the supplement is risk to Bangladesh from climate change.

Upper Reach and the external publicity wing have been working together on the supplement. A team from the agency has already visited Dhaka and returned, while another is currently here, Shameem said.

Upper Reach prepares tailor-made country reports and publishes those through its media partner, The Times.

Cold wave claims 11

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Eleven people have died in the last two days in the first cold wave of the season across the country.

Two died in Rangpur, eight in Thakurgaon and one in Jessore.

The Rangpur Medical College Hospital authorities said 10 children had died there the last week from cold-related ailments.

In the north, life has virtually come to a standstill. People rarely leave their houses, and farmers covering their Boro seed-beds waiting for the sun to come out.

The Met department said the medium cold wave could continue through Sunday, with things looking brighter on Monday.

In Panchagarh, the district administration distributed 1,300 blankets and NGOs RDRS and BRAC distributed several hundred.

Deputy commissioner Tofazzal Hossain Miya said he had requested the relief ministry for another 7,000 blankets.

Farmers said they were covering their seed-beds with polythene, but the agriculture department said there were no reports yet of seeds getting spoiled.

Dinajpur Met office said the lowest recorded temperature on Saturday was 6.2 degrees Celsius. Deputy commissioner Jamal Uddin Ahmed said he had asked for 20,000 blankets, 30,000 sarees and 30,000 warm clothes for children.

In Rangpur, additional doctors were brought in to the medical college hospital to handle the large haul of pneumonia patients. RMCH director Toufiqul Islam told  that 10 children had died there from cold diarrhoea, asthma, viral fever and other cold-related ailments.

The district's assistant meteorologist Emdad Hosain said the lowest temperature recorded on Saturday was 10.4 degrees Celsius.

Thakurgaon civil surgeon Khairul Kabir told  eight people had died across the district from the cold wave in the last 72 hours.

At least 100 children are admitted to the Sadar Hospital, he added.

District relief officer Abdur Razzaque said 2,918 blankets had been dispatched to municipalities and upazila offices for distribution.

Bogra agriculture department officials say the 8,900-hectare Boro seed-beds in the district could be under risk if the cold wave continues a few more days.

Farmers are saying some of their saplings are getting red and shrivelling up. Officials have advised covering the beds with polythene at night.

The sun has not been seen in the last two days in Sirajganj. Deputy commissioner Aminul Islam told  the relief ministry had issued 6,000 blankets and they would soon be distributed.

The temperature in Jessore, 6 degrees Celsius, was the lowest in the country on Saturday. A beggar was found dead in the morning in front of the Circuit House.

Agriculture department officials said they had advised farmers to pump water to seed-beds at night and pump it out in the morning to protect saplings from the cold.

BNP hand in 'mystery killings': Hasina

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Launching a counter-attack on the main opposition, the prime minister has blamed the alliance of main opposition BNP and its ally Jamaat-e-Islami for all the 'mystery killings' and other disruptive activities across the country.

"Not only to protect the war criminals, the BNP-Jamaat alliance is also carrying out these mystery killings, murders and other criminal activities to destabilise the country," Sheikh Hasina said criticising the opposition.

"They will first kill and start crying — this is their characteristic."

Her remarks came on Saturday at a discussion in the city's Bangabandhu International Conference Centre, following concerns expressed by various rights organisations, including the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), over the recent incidents of alleged abduction and what the opposition party calls 'extrajudicial killings'.

The prime minister also warned those who want to protect the war criminals by saying that they would also be tried.

She urged everyone in favour of the trials to raise awareness on the matter.

"Everyone needs to be united, so that no Razakar or Al-Badr comes to power again and plays with the people's fate," she told the discussion.

Ruling party presidium member and parliament deputy leader Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury presided over the programme organised by Awami League as part of the 40th Victory Day celebrations.

Hasina said, "We have executed the trial and the verdict in the Bangabandhu assassination case. The trial of the war criminals will also be held in the same fashion."

Referring to opposition leader Khaleda Zia, she said, "The one carrying out movements, strikes, long marches to protect the war criminals even gave Bangladesh's flag in their hands … what more can be expected of such a person?"

BNP chief Khaleda has long been demanding the release of the seven BNP-Jamaat leaders, who were arrested on charges of committing war crimes. She has also written to the UN secretary-general about her reservations on the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) trying the war crimes.

Top five Jamaat leaders — party chief Matiur Rahman Nizami, secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammed Mojaheed, executive council leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee, assistant secretaries general Muhammad Kamaruzzaman and Abdul Quader Molla — who are charged with war crimes have been arrested and their trial is underway.

Senior BNP leader Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury was also arrested on similar charges, while another charged with war crimes Abdul Alim, a former minister in late president Ziaur Rahman's cabinet, is on conditional bail.

Saying Bangladesh is yet to reach the desired destination even after 40 years of independence, Hasina said, "The query 'why it did not happen?' must be answered by those — Zia (Ziaur Rahman), Ershad (A H M Ershad) and Khaleda Zia — who were in power for 28 years after the independence."

"The people want to know how they became rich overnight and what people got in those 28 years."

Talking about the killing of Jessore BNP leader Nazmul Islam, she said that BNP is behind the mystery killings, murders and conspiracies.

The latest victim of "mystery killings" is Jessore BNP leader Nazmul Islam, whose body was found in Gazipur on Dec 15 – a day after he was abducted from the capital's Mohammadpur area while returning home from a wedding.

In some recent cases, the victims were picked up by people in the guise of law enforcers, especially acting as Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel, and later their bodies were recovered from various areas.

Amid protests and criticisms, the law enforcement agencies have been denying the allegations.

According to NHRC, at least 27 people have gone missing during the recent part. Bodies of several victims were found later.

The uncanny part, says the opposition party, is that many victims were BNP local-level leaders or activists. Among them was Ismail Hossain, a leader of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, the pro-BNP student body.

A former president of Chhatra Dal's ward-50 unit in Dhaka, Ismail went "missing" on Nov 28. His body was recovered, along with two others, from Dhalehswari river near Munshiganj on Dec 8.

Chhatra Dal members alleged that law enforcers had picked up the organisation's three leaders, including Ismail, from the capital's Hatirpul area. While Islamil's body surfaced 10 days later, the other two are still missing, the organisation claims.

At least seven bodies were recovered from Munshiganj's Dhalehswari river in as many days.