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Ten business establishments were gutted in a fire at Amragacchia Bazar in Shoronkhola upazila on Wednesday, reports UNB. Fire service sources said the fire originated from an electric short circuit at a furniture shop around 2:00 pm and it soon engulfed the adjoining nine other establishments. The affected owners claimed that the estimated losses caused by the fire is about Tk 3 million (30 lakh).....

Published at: 2017-03-09 00:00:04

A woman was stabbed to death allegedly by her brother-in-law over a land dispute at Shanirjor village in Morelganj upazila of Bagerhat district on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Kamala Begum, 40, wife of Khalulur Rahman, according to UNB report.  Police said Khalilur Rahman Talukdar and Rafiqul Islam Talukdar-o sons of Razzak Talukdar-- had long been at loggerheads over the ownership of a piece of land. As a sequel to the problem, there had been an altercation between the two brothers when Rafiqul went to the disputed land to take control over it in the morning. At one stage, Rafiqul stabbed Kamala when she tried to quell the situation, leaving her critically injured, said Rashedul Alam, officer-in-charge of Morelganj Police Station. Kamala was taken to local health complex where doctors declared her dead. On information, police rushed in and arrested Rafiqul while fleeing the scene. A case was filed in this connection.....

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An Ansar member was killed and a local UNO injured in an attack by alleged drug traders during an anti-narcotic drive along the border at Badarpur village in Phulgazi upazila on Wednesday night, reports UNB. The deceased was identified as Nousher Ali, 45. Ukkya Sing, assistant superintendent (circle) of Feni Police, said a team of police, led by Sadar Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Sohel Rana, conducted the drive at Khanabari border point around 8:30pm. During the drive, some Indian drug peddlers swooped on them and hit Sohel Rana and Nousher with sharp weapons, leaving Nousher killed on the spot and the UNO injured, he said. At one stage, police fired shots to disperse them. The UNO was admitted to Sadar Hospital. The drug peddlers also abducted an unidentified Bangladeshi national and took away Nousher's body to Indian side, said the ASP. Meanwhile, a flag meeting was held between Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Indian Border Security Force (BSF) around 1:30am over the incident where the BSF admitted that the abducted man was in their custody.....

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Two senior senators asked the FBI and Justice Department on Wednesday for any information they have on President Donald Trump's unsubstantiated claim that his predecessor Barack Obama wiretapped him during the 2016 US presidential campaign. In a letter to James Comey, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Acting Deputy Attorney General Dana Boente, Republican Lindsey Graham and Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse wrote: "We request that the Department of Justice provide us copies of any warrant applications and court orders ... related to wiretaps of President Trump, the Trump campaign, or Trump Tower.” Under US law, presidents cannot direct wiretapping. Instead, the federal government can ask a court to authorise the action, but it must provide justification. Asked at a briefing on Wednesday if Trump was the subject of a probe, White House spokesman Sean Spicer replied: "There is no reason that we have to think that the president is the target of any investigation whatsoever." Critics of Trump in Congress have accused him of issuing the wiretap allegation to try to deflect attention from investigations into his administration's possible ties to Russia. Some have likened it to Trump's long-held contention that Obama was not born in the United States and thus did not legitimately hold the office of president - an accusation he did not withdraw until 2016. Dianne Feinstein, a Democratic member of both the Senate intelligence and judiciary committees, told CNN she had not seen any evidence that Obama had tapped Trump's phone. "It's all rather shocking to me that a sitting president would make this kind of an allegation about a former president without any proof whatsover," she said. "I believe it's patently false." SUBPOENAS Graham later told CNN that if the Justice Department does not cooperate with the senators' request, subpoenas would be issued. "I expect them to come forward as to whether or not a warrant was obtained or sought," Graham said. He chairs a Senate Judiciary subcommittee on crime and terrorism, and Whitehouse is the senior Democrat on the panel. On Saturday, Trump accused Obama of phone surveillance, amid a swirl of questions about possible ties between the Trump presidential campaign and Russian President Vladimir Putin. US intelligence agencies have found that Russia tried to influence the election. An Obama spokesman said on Saturday that neither Obama nor any White House official had ordered surveillance on any US citizen. The spokesman's statement did not address the possibility that a wiretap of the Trump campaign could have been sought by the Justice Department. In their letter, Graham and Whitehouse wrote: "We would take any abuse of wiretapping authorities for political purposes very seriously." The senators added: "We would be equally alarmed to learn that a court found enough evidence of criminal activity or contact with a foreign power to legally authorise a wiretap of President Trump, the Trump campaign, or Trump Tower.” On Tuesday, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes told reporters his panel would consider issuing subpoenas if information being sought on Russia's possible role influencing the election was not forthcoming. The committee has scheduled a March 20 hearing and Trump's wiretap allegation is part of that probe. Democrats, questioning the commitment of the Republican-controlled Congress, have been calling for an outside investigation, which so far has been rejected.  ....

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 Police have arrested three more suspects over the killing of the murder of teenager Adnan Kabir in Dhaka's Uttara. The arrest were made late on Wednesday from Gazipur's Tongi, Uttara West police OC Md Ali Hossain said, reports bdnews24.com. The three have been identified as Rajan Mohammad Hridoy, Shakil Sarkar and Fakhrul Islam Srabon. Police said they will be produced before the court on Thursday. Adnan, an eighth-grader from the Trust School and College in Uttara, was attacked by 10 to 15 youths on Road 17 of Uttara’s Sector 13 on the evening of Jan 6. The killers chased him down before hacking him with sharp weapons. Adnan died within an hour of being taken to a hospital. A feud between the ‘Disco Boys’ gang and the local ‘Nine Star’ group led to the murder. The feud began when the ‘Disco Boys’ perpetrated a knife attack against ‘Nine Star’ leader ‘Raju’, said police. Police had made 10 arrests in the murder case started by the victim's father and interrogated them in custody.  ....

Published at: 2017-03-09 00:00:04