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Volume 4 Number 37

Wed. July 02, 2003

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300 prisoners on hunger strike at Jessore Central Jail
About 300 inmates at the Jessore Central Jail began hunger strike on Monday to press home their four-point demand.

'Build up social resistance against acid attack'
Speakers at a discussion in the city have called for building up social resistance against acid attack.

They said vigorous campaign is needed to raise public awareness about the heinous crime.

14 get life for murders in Gopalganj, Brahmanbaria
A court here on Sunday sentenced nine men to life imprisonment and another man to two years' rigorous imprisonment (RI) in a murder case.

Centre for Arsenic Mitigation opens
The Bangladesh-Australia Centre for Arsenic Mitigation was inaugurated at Dhaka Community Hospital (DCH) on Monday.

Villagers besiege UNO office demanding trial of murder cases
Hundreds of men and women of 10 villages in Ranishankail upazila besieged the Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO)'s office Wednesday demanding trial of 11 murder cases pending for the last few years.

Remain alert against grabbing lands of indigenous people
Leaders of Bangladesh Adibasi Samity (BAS) have called upon its workers to remain alert against the grabbing of the lands of indigenous people by the forest department showing them as vested property.