July 14, 2005	Thursday	Jumadi-us-Sani 6, 1426

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Blair moots tough steps to combat ‘evil ideology’: Dialogue with Muslim leaders sought LONDON, July 13: British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Wednesday proposed a package of tough measures, including tighter entry and deportation procedures, to combat what he branded an ‘evil ideology’ embraced by the suspected Muslim extremists behind the London terror attacks....		175 Muslims held in Italy ROME, July 13: One hundred and seventy five Muslims were rounded up as police swept into Muslim communities across Italy on Wednesday, raiding dozens of homes and seizing material in several cities a day after the government announced a series of measures aimed at cracking down on extremism....
China’s bid has security risk: US experts: Purchase of Unocal WASHINGTON, July 13: Security experts cautioned on Wednesday against China’s bid for US oil giant Unocal, warning US lawmakers that a takeover would have dire economic and national security repercussions for the United States....		WorldCom head gets 25-year jail term NEW YORK, July 13: Bernard Ebbers, the folksy entrepreneur who built WorldCom Inc into a telecommunications giant, was sentenced on Wednesday to 25 years in prison for his role in the business fraud that led to the largest US corporate bankruptcy....
Experts see India’s population as an asset NEW DELHI: India’s billion plus population, slated to overtake that of China by the middle of the century, is being increasingly regarded by policy planners not as a liability but as an asset that could propel the country to economic greatness....		US bunker-busting missile test likely PARIS, July 13: The United States is close to testing a new missile aimed at destroying deep bunkers where suspected weapons of mass destruction are stored, the British weekly New Scientist says....
Suspects arrested in the past: minister LONDON/BRUSSELS, July 13: British Interior Secretary Charles Clarke on Wednesday hotly denied having told European Union counterparts that some of the suspects in the bomb attacks had been arrested in the past....		Refugee crisis building up in Nepal KOHALPUR (Nepal): A little over a year ago, Laxmi Budha had everything going for her. The wife of a village politician-cum-trader in Nepal’s far-west Humla district, she ran her husband’s commodity...
Manmohan in quest of nuclear fuel NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who will leave for Washington this weekend with the promise of “big, big things” from US President George W. Bush, is under pressure from the...		4m people left BD in 29 years, says study DHAKA: Four million people have left Bangladesh through official channels in 29 years between 1976 and 2005. Out of the estimated annual figure for worldwide international remittance of $100 billion, about...
EU calls upon BD govt, opposition to hold talks DHAKA: The European Union on Tuesday urged the government and the opposition parties to have a dialogue to resolve the current political stand-off regarding electoral reforms and holding of the next general elections....		Muslim body lays claim to Taj LUCKNOW: An Indian Muslim body laid claim on Wednesday to the world’s most famous monument to love, the Taj Mahal, sparking angry reactions from Hindu groups....
Communists happy to sell off Kolkata’s faded glory KOLKATA: Once known as the Jewel of the East, the Great Eastern Hotel in Kolkata, former capital of colonial India, has seen better days. Used by the British to billet their...		‘Drug queens’ hold sway in Dhaka DHAKA: A suspected female drug dealer was shot dead in the Bangladeshi capital as police said the city’s supply of illegal narcotics was now almost entirely in the hands of a female network of “drug queens”....
LTTE steps up attacks on police COLOMBO: The LTTE rebels have stepped up attacks on police in the eastern province, police said here on Tuesday. At least nine policemen were injured, three of them seriously, in three separate attacks in the eastern port town of Trincomalee....		Britain rejects surveillance of mosques BRUSSELS, July 13: British Home Secretary Charles Clarke on Wednesday ruled out setting up surveillance at mosques, following a proposal to do so by French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy....
Guantanamo: US report cites humiliation WASHINGTON, July 13: Guantanamo Bay interrogators degraded and abused a key prisoner but did not torture him when they told him he was gay, forced him to dance with another man...		Rumsfeld sees Iran behind Israel blast WASHINGTON, July 13: Iran could be behind the suicide attack at a shopping mall in Israel that killed at least four, US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld alleged on Tuesday....
UN chief asks Israel not to build barrier UNITED NATIONS, July 13: UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Tuesday urged Israel not to build its West Bank barrier after the Sharon government acknowledged the wall would isolate tens of thousands of Palestinians living in Al Quds....		US urges UN to oppose G4 draft UNITED NATIONS: The United States on Tuesday called on the UN General Assembly to oppose a draft resolution submitted by Brazil, Germany, India and Japan seeking enlargement of the Security Council because it did not enjoy broad-based support....