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Five shops were gutted in a fire which broke out at Nagar Kasba Bazar in Mirkadim municipality area of Sadar upazila on Thursday night. Fire service sources said the fire broke out at a laundry shop around 10:30 pm and spread around soon, reports UNB. On information, a firefighting unit rushed in and extinguished the blaze after one hour of frantic effort. The affected shop owners claimed that the extent of loss caused by the fire would go up to TK 4 million.....

Published at: 2017-02-10 00:00:04

A Jessore mobile court on Thursday sentenced a shop owner to three months' jail for trading porno footages after downloading those through a computer in Keshabpur upazila, reports UNB. The convict, Amir Hossain, 25, son of Mannan Gazi of Mandardnaga village in the upazila, had been involved in storing and trading porno videos from his shop at Garbhanga Bazar. Tipped off, a police team arrested Amir Hossain on charge of selling the video footages. He was later produced before a mobile court led by Executive Magistrate Sharif Raihan who sentenced him to three months' jail in the afternoon.....

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Asian shares rallied to an 18-month peak on Friday, as investors cheered upbeat Chinese trade data and strong gains on Wall Street after US President Donald Trump promised to unveil a major tax announcement to lower the burden on businesses. China's January exports rose 7.9 per cent from a year earlier, while imports jumped 16.7 per cent, beating expectations, preliminary data showed, getting the economy off to a strong start in 2017, reports Reuters. The increase "is related to the global pick-up in growth in the US, Europe and also emerging economies," said Jianguang Shen, chief economist at Mizuho Securities in Hong Kong. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS was up 0.5 per cent to the highest level since July 2015, and was on track to gain 1.5 for the week. The Shanghai Composite Index .SSEC was up 0.4 per cent. Japan's Nikkei stock index .N225 surged 2.3 per cent thanks to the tailwind from a weaker currency, and was poised to add 2.2 per cent for the week. "Weaker yen combined with US stock price gains are fuelling an upward trend in the Tokyo market," said Hiroki Allen, chief representative of Superfund Japan. Wall Street's three main indexes notched record highs on Thursday after President Donald Trump said he would make a major tax announcement in a few weeks, though he offered no details.  "The market loves the idea of tax reform," Chris Weston, chief market strategist at IG in Melbourne, said in a note. "It has corporate tax cuts in its sights and if Trump can push that along, with a more simplified personal tax regime the US and global equities will find buyers." US economic data also underpinned the dollar. Initial jobless claims unexpectedly dropped last week to a nearly 43-year low, while inventories at wholesalers surged in December for a second straight month. The dollar index, which tracks the greenback against a basket of six major currencies, was steady on the day at 100.64 .DXY, on track to gain 0.8 per cent for the week. The Australian dollar rode the trade data from the China, Australia's major export market. The Aussie rose 0.3 per cent to $0.7646 AUD, also supported by an optimistic view from the country's central bank, which suggested that further interest rate cuts were off the table. The euro, under pressure from political concerns as the campaign for France's presidential election heated up, was 0.1 per cent higher at $1.0663 EUR=. It was still down 1.1 per cent for the week. Against its Japanese counterpart, the dollar gained 0.4 per cent to 113.66 yen JPY=, up 1 per cent for the week ahead of a meeting later on Friday between Trump and Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Abe will propose a new cabinet level framework for US-Japan talks on trade, security and macroeconomic issues, including currencies, a Japanese government official involved in planning the summit said. Crude oil prices extended gains, with US prices bolstered by evidence that gasoline demand could strengthen in the world's biggest oil market.  US crude CLc1 added 0.2 per cent to $53.09 a barrel. Brent crude LCOc1 rose 0.1 per cent to at $55.70.   ....

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A youth was found guilty of raping a five-year-old boy by a court in Manikganj on Thursday and sentenced to 10 years in prison. Additional District and Sessions Judge Al Mahmud Fayjul Kabir handed down the verdict and also fined convict Shipon Tk 5,000, in default, to suffer another two months' imprisonment, reports UNB. According to the case statement, Shipon, son of Azizur Khan of Tangopalnagar in Singair upazila, raped the little boy on August 11, 2015. Later, the grandmother of the victim filed a case against the convict on August 18 of the same year with the Manikganj Senior Judicial Magistrate Court. The court received the chargesheet in the case on March 12, 2016. After cross-examining the evidence and witnesses, the court pronounced the judgement. ....

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