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News in Brief
Bar council election held
Staff Correspondent
The election to Bangladesh Bar Council, a statutory body regulating lawyers, was held yesterday to elect 14 executive members of the council.
Votes were cast at 77 centres across the country and at least two or three days will be needed for compiling the results, said bar council Secretary Enyaet Fazlur Rashid, adding that 56 lawyers contested in the election.
Three panels- Sammilito Ainjibi Samannoy Parishad, Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Oikya Panel and Ainjibi Oikya Panel-mainly contested in the election. Other
Body of woman found in capital
Staff Correspondent
The body of an unidentified woman, stuffed inside a carton, was found on the footpath near GPO in the capital's Gulistan yesterday.
Police said the deceased, aged around 30 years, was wearing salwar and karniz while her hands and legs were tied with nylon ropes.
Police suspected that the woman was strangled two to three days ago.
Train runs over boy
Staff Correspondent
A student, who appeared in the HSC examination this year, was killed as a train ran him over at Moghbazar in the capital yesterday afternoon.
Shariful Islam, 18, living with his parents at Sonalibagh, Moghbazar, was walking on the rail track and speaking over a mobile phone when the train ran him over, said witnesses.
The witnesses said they repeatedly tried to alert
Man sentenced to death
Court Correspondent
A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced a man to death for killing his aunt and uncle in October 17,2006.
The victims, Afsar Uddin and Tamiza Begum, residents of Purba Basabo Patwarygoli in the capital's Sabujbagh, were killed in their residence as they refused to give the convict, Jahangir Shawkat Jewel, money to buying a mobile phone.
Afterwards, the victims' son, AKM Shahjahan, filed a murder case against Jewel.
Judge Mohammad Anisur Rahman of the Fifth Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court of Dhaka
Abducted man rescued, 5 held
Our Correspondent, ctg
Rapid Action Battalion rescued an abducted man and arrested five persons from Feni yesterday for kidnapping the man on Monday.
A team from Rab-7 arrested Mohammad Mamun, 32, Roni, 23, Saiful Islam, 23, Shahadat Hossain, 23, and a CNG-run three-wheeler driver Nazmul Haq, 20, and rescued Jane Alam, 38, a resident of Sitakunda upazila in Chittagong, from the residence of Roni at
Kuakata antique boat to be excavated
Special Correspondent
The antique boat that recently surfaced from beneath the Kuakata beach in Patuakhali will be excavated and restored during winter when the sea water recedes, archaeologists and experts in Dhaka said yesterday.
Meanwhile, a police camp has been set up on the site of the wreck to prevent theft and looting, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Patuakhali Amol Krishna Mondol toldThe Daily Star.
The ancient boat, which is believed to be belonging to the first Rakhine settlers from Arakan province in Myanmar over 200 years ago, was found on June 29 during low tide.
The Department of Archaeology officials in Dhaka confirmed that they have urged the concerned ministry for forming a technical committee to oversee the excavation and restoration of the boat.
“Our team that visited the site recently has assessed a cost of Tk 2 to 3 lakh to excavate the boat and we have accordingly informed the ministry,” said an official of the department requesting not to be named.