Volume 4 Number 346 Thu. May 20, 2004    
 
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Pearl being smuggled out
Pink pearls found in Mymensingh are of world class variety
NETRAKONA: Natural pearl collected from waterbodies in greater Mymensingh are smuggled to India and exported from there.
 
A potential unutilised in Patuakhali
WDB irrigation facilities illegally occupied by influentials, two-thirds land remain fallow half the year
A little attention can exploit the great unutilised agriculture potentialities in Patuakhali.
 
A noble effort by a freedom fighter
He is not a reputed artist but doing a great job.

Freedom fighter Abdul Aziz has opened an art school at a remote village where teachers teach children art and painting voluntarily.

 
New govt decision on schools
Several hundred teachers not getting salary in Barisal
Several hundred schoolteachers in Barisal district are not getting salaries for about a year.
 
Indian leopard injures 5 in Nilphamari
After intrusion of two wild Indian elephants through Meherpur and their fanfare take-back, a leopard strayed into bordering Jhar Sinhessar village in Dimla upazila, albeit to a unwelcome situation.
 
Anti-drug body formed
A new 31-member committee of 'Dhumpan-O-Madok Birodhi Sangathan, an anti-drug and non-smoking organisation, was formed at a meeting held at Madyapara in the town on Monday.
 
Tk 2 lakh valuables looted: 20 hurt by dacoits
At least 20 persons including a woman were injured and valuables worth about two lakh taka were looted by armed dacoits at a house at Mukandapur-Madoerbag village in Sadar upazila on May 18, villagers
 
Killer gets life in Kushtia
A killer was awarded life term rigorous imprisonment (RI) by the Additional District and Sessions Judge Court here recently.
 
Slain IU ICS activist's body not recovered
Police could not find out the severed body of slain Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS) activist Monwar Hossain Shohel of Islamic University here even after five days of his murder.
 

 
   
 
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