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Bangladesh break 16-year Pakistan hoodoo with emphatic win

Bangladesh have finally broken their 16-year old Pakistan jinx in all forms of cricket in some style, crushing them by 79 runs with a superlative all-round show in the first ODI in Mirpur. Two scintillating centuries by opener Tamim Iqbal (132) and wicketkeeper-batsman Mushfiqur Rahim (106) powered the Tigers to a daunting 329 for 6 – their highest total in ...

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2 killed, 3 injured road accident in Habiganj

Rakil Hussain, Habigonj : At least Two people were killed road accidents in Habiganj districts on Friday. two men were killed and three others injured in a head-on collision between a CNG-run auto-rickshaw and a truck on Dhaka-Sylhet highway at Olipur in Sadar upazila on Friday afternoon. The deceased were identified as Shohel Miah, 28, hailing from Sribaur village in ...

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Lightning kills 6 in Sunamganj

At least six people, mostly farmers, have been killed and three others injured in Sunamganj after being struck by lightning during a nor’wester, police say, reports sylhetmirror.com Five of them died, in separate incidents, while working in paddy fields at Dirai Upazila on Friday afternoon. They are – labourer Milad Mia, 30, and farmers Jamshed Ali, 45, Gyanendra Das, 50, ...

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Sylhet-Ctg train link resumes

Train communications of Dhaka with Chittagong, Sylhet and Kishoreganj were restored after one hour of suspension following derailment of the engine of a train at Bhairab Rail Station on Friday. Khalilur Rahman, station master of Bhairab Rail Station, said two wheels of the Kishoreganj-bound ‘Egaro Sindhu’ train from Dhaka veered off the track around 11:00am when it reached the station, ...

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