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US spy agency unveils scale model of Bin Laden hideout
WASHINGTON, May 17 (BSS/AFP) - US intelligence officials have unveiled a once top secret scale model of Osama bin Laden's hideout in Pakistan, a precise replica used to plan the raid that killed the Al-Qaeda chief a year ago. The table-top model made its public debut Wednesday in the halls of the Pentagon, where soldiers and office workers stopped in the corridor and gazed in fascination at the elaborate miniature of Bin Laden's compound. With farm fields carved out of clay and the building's walls made of styrofoam, the model was built in six weeks by a special team at the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA). The NGA, which provides satellite imagery to the... More...
   
National

DHAKA, May 17 (BSS) - The nationwide dawn-to-dusk shutdown (hartal), enforced by the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), began at 6 am today amid stringent security measures.

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International

TOKYO, May 17 (BSS/AFP) - A Japanese bank has halted transactions by the Iranian government after a US court ordered a $2.6 billion asset freeze over the 1983 bombing of US barracks in Beirut, a bank ... More...

WASHINGTON, May 17 (BSS/AFP) - Anti-poverty campaigners are urging leaders of rich nations to commit at a weekend summit to feeding the world's poor, warning that hunger is taking a devastating toll... More...
Syria's Assad 'doomed,' says Israel's Barak
Economic

SANTIAGO, May 17 (BSS/AFP) - A new gold rush is sweeping through Latin America with devastating consequences, ravaging tropical forests and dumping toxic chemicals as illegal miners fight against... More...

SINGAPORE, May 17 (BSS/AFP) - Crude was mixed in Asian trade today as bargain-hunters moved in to capitalise on the recent slide in prices, although concerns over Greece's political future contin... More...
Samsung on top as mobile phone sales dip: survey
Obama warns opponents over debt ceiling showdown
Sports

KIEV, May 17 (BSS/AFP) - Oleg Blokhin takes Ukraine into its home European championships as manager, hoping to inspire the team with his successes from the glory days of Soviet football in the 1970... More...
District

MYMENSINGH, May 16 (BSS)- Speakers at a roundtable conference said today the patients should be more aware about tuberculosis (TB), a curable disease through taking medicines regularly.

If TB pat... More...

RANGPUR, May 16 (BSS) - Health officials at a daylong meeting here today stressed for meeting nutritional demand of all through successful implementation of the national nutri... More...
Round table conference on TB held
Call for rooting out violence against women
Youth shot dead by BSF at Shibgonj frontier
Rajshahi City Bhaban to be 10 storied
Bomb making materials seized from Ctg LDP office
'Female Vice Chairmen's role vital for strengthening democracy'
57 schemes implemented in Chuadanga
United efforts for saving villages from river erosion
Education

DHAKA, May 16 (BSS)- The government has rescheduled tomorrow's Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations for Friday due to countrywide dawn to dusk hartal called by BNP and its ... More...

RANGPUR, May 16 (BSS) - Taka 10.40 lakh sub-stipends were distributed today among 256 ethnic minority students and 10 others of the communities under the special area devel... More...
CG system inconsistence with constitution: Shafique
US shares winning educational reform with Malaysia
 
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