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Forestland now 10pc of total area against minimum 25pc
Says Ctg divisional commissioner
Country's total forestland has come down to 10 percent as against the minimum requirement of 25 percent of its total land.
 
Road accidents kill 11
At least 11 people were killed and 79 others injured in separate road accidents in Faridpur, Comilla, Magura, Noakhali, Manikganj and Jhenidah yesterday.
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152nd Anniversary of Santal Hool Observed
Constitutional recognition of indigenous people demanded
The indigenous people yesterday observed the 152nd anniversary of Santal Rebellion or Santal Hool yesterday with a call to give constitutional recognition to them and ensure the right to their ancestral
 
Govt urged to allocate khas lands for Dalit community
Members of Dalit (lower caste) community yesterday urged the caretaker government to allocate khas lands for them to permanently solve their housing problem in the city.
 
Stolen oil worth Tk 5cr recovered in N'ganj: 12 held
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) yesterday recovered one lakh litres of fuel worth about Tk 5 crore stolen from two major fuel depots of Meghna and Padma oil companies at Siddhirganj in Narayanganj and arrested
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Reception to Grainger Challenge Prize Winners
'Sono Filter to help save lives of 50 cr people in S Asia'
Two Bangladeshi scientists, Dr Abul Hussam and Dr AKM Munir, who won the Grainger Challenge Prize for Sustainability, 2007, were accorded a national reception in the city yesterday.
 
London Conference
Roots of conflict in British society discussed
A conference on 'Social vision: Working for a more equal and tolerant society' was organised by the London School of Economics and Political Science Social Vision Global Alumni Network on June 26.
 
Production in Zia Fertiliser Factory halted
Production in Ashuganj Zia Fertiliser Factory was suspended yesterday morning due to some technical problems.
 
HR Violation
211 killed last month
Says BSEHR report
A total of 651 people were killed in various mishaps and 211 were killed due to violation of human rights in the last month, revealed a report of the Bangladesh Society for the Enforcement of Human Rights
 
Girl kept confined, raped in Ctg
Five arrested
Members of the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested four people from an apartment building at Agrabad in the city on Friday night on charges of keeping a teenage girl confined for several days and violating
 
Hasina greets Gordon Brown
Awami League President Sheikh Hasina yesterday congratulated Gordon Brown on his assumption of office as British prime minister.
 
Tk 67.76cr CU budget approved
Chittagong University (CU) Senate at its 19th annual meeting yesterday approved a budget of Tk 67.76 crore for 2007-2008 fiscal year (FY) with a deficit of Tk 2.65 crore.
 
Ad firm official murdered in city
A gang of unidentified criminals killed a senior media manager of an advertising firm at Motijheel in the city last night.
 
Khaleda shocked at Asia's death
Former Prime Minister and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia expressed deep shock at the death of Asia Begum, elder sister of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and aunt to AL President Sheikh Hasina, says a BNP press release.
 
Hawkers' Society AGM held
The annual general meeting (AGM) of Dhaka Newspaper Hawkers' Multi Purpose Cooperative Society Limited was held at the society's Motijheel residence in the city yesterday, says a press release.
 
6-yr-old boy found dead in city ditch
Police recovered the body of a six-year-old boy from a ditch in the city yesterday. The boy was identified as Bijoy, son of Mosharraf Hossain, a grocer at Banshbari in Mohammadpur.
 
AUST degree classes resume today
The classes of the degree programme of Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology, Dhaka will resume today, says a press release.
 

 
   
 
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