Volume 4 Number 215 Thu. January 01, 2004    
 
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Reaping rewards of hard work in 22 Gaibandha villages
Men, women work on knitting machines; children go to school
There is no illiterate and unemployed person in Kochashaher union.
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Project to prevent merger of Jamuna and Bangali rivers
Discontent brews as election pledge not honoured
Discontent is growing among the people of Shariakandi and Dhunut upazilas in Bogra as consecutive meetings of the ECNEC in the last two months did not grant any funds for Jamuna-Bangali rivers mergerprevention
 
Contractors lock Bhola WDB office
Residences of Executive Engineer, 8 others attacked for "irregularities" in giving Tk 7 cr work
A section of Water Development Board (WDB) contractors hailing from Bhola, joined by musclemen, locked the WDB office and attacked nine residences of its officials and employees including that of the
 
Demand for reopening Dhaka Match Works
Workers begin 9-day agitation
Workers of Dhaka Match Works (former Dada Match Works) formed a human chain at Picture Palace cinema square in the city on Tuesday as part of nine-day agitation programme demanding reopening of the mill.
 
20 hurt in BDR-smuggler gunfight in Kushtia
At least 20 people including a woman were injured, five of them with bullets, in a gunfight between Bangladesh Rifle (BDR) personnel and alleged smugglers at bordering Jamalpur in Daulatpur upazila in
 
Admission tests in 9 govt schools in Ctg January 10-14
Admission tests in all the nine government schools here will be held from January 10 to 14 next year.

The tests will be held for admission into classes I, IV, V, VI and IX only in the government schools.

 
Poet Jasimuddin's birthday today
The 101st birth anniversary of Pallikabi Jasimuddin will be observed here today in a befitting manner.
 
Hundi trading alleged
Businessman sent to jail
Leading businessman Abu Hossain Chowdhury, who was arrested on Saturday for alleged hundi trading, was sent to jail hajat on Tuesday.
 
Order to axe 252
Aleem Jute Mills workers march streets with clubs
Tension is mounting Aleem Jute Mills here following an order for retrenchment of 252 "permanent" workers of the mill.
 
4 outlaws held in Kushtia
Four alleged outlaws belonging to Purbo Banglar Communist Party (PBCP) were arrested at Satpara village in Daulatpur upazila Tuesday night.
 

 
   
 
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