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Evolve hybrid minor crops to meet nutrition requirement
Minister urges researchers
Agriculture Minister M K Anwar yesterday called upon the researchers to evolve hybrid minor crops like vegetables and pulses along with major crops.

'Youths need proper guidance and training'
The youths are an asset and they can bring about a positive change in society if they are given proper guidance and training, speakers at a roundtable said yesterday.

Garment Owners-workers' Meet
RMG workers reiterate demand for Tk 3000 as basic salary
Leaders of garment workers at a view exchanging meeting yesterday reiterated their demand for Tk 3000 as basic salary for garment workers saying this is the minimum amount for a worker to keep body and

Misappropriation
Tariqul challenges TIB allegation
Environment and Forest Minister Tariqul Islam yesterday challenged Transparency International, Bangladesh (TIB) to prove the allegation of misappropriation against his ministry.

2 killed, 31 injured in road accidents
At least two people were killed and 31 injured in separate road accidents in Manikganj and Rajshahi yesterday Our Staff Correspondent from Rajshahi reports: One person was killed and 30 others wereinjured

Verdict in two cases against Sunny, six others July 17
A Dhaka court will deliver verdict of two cases on July 17 against Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) military commander Ataur Rahman Sunny and six others.

4 of a family killed in wall collapse
Four people of the same family were killed when a wall collapsed on their thatched house in Noyapara of Maheshkhali upazila in Cox's Bazar yesterday during heavy downpours.

Krishak Dal leader shot dead in Satkhira
Armed cadres of outlawed Purba Banglar Communist Party (PBCP-Janajuddha) killed a Jatiyatabadi Krishak Dal leader at village Dudlia in Tala upazila last night.

Tk 41 crore Japanese grant for portable steel bridges
Japan will provide 700 million yen, approximately Tk 41 crore, grant assistance to Bangladesh for constructing portable steel bridges in rural areas.

Cheating Case
Boishakhi TV Director Bulu's estranged wife gets bail
Boishakhi TV Director MNH Bulu's estranged wife Hosne Ara Naznin yesterday obtained bail in a cheating case filed against her by one Monir Hossain on July 6.

Killing of hospital staff
Punishment to killers demanded
Bangladesh Mahila Parishad (BMP) yesterday condemned the killing of a woman staff of a hospital in the city after gangrape on Friday night.

War heroes accorded reception
Bangladesh Muktijoddha Jubo Command accorded a reception to district level commanders of the Liberation War in the city yesterday.

Mass piracy continued in Bay of Bengal
Properties worth more than Tk one core were looted from about hundred fishing trawlers in the Bay of Bengal in the first nine-day days of July.

Cop atrocities protested
Rajshahi unit of the 14-party opposition combine staged a demonstration at Shaheb Bazar zero point in the city yesterday, protesting police atrocities, killing of one of its leaders during the July 4countrywide

Japanese envoy meets Hasina
New Japanese Ambassador Masayuki Inoue yesterday made a courtesy call on Leader of the Opposition in Parliament Sheikh Hasina and discussed future planning of socio-economic development in Bangladesh.

JMB member arrested in Mymensingh
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members arrested a member of banned Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) at Muktagachha, Mymensingh on Saturday.

CEC seminar on human resource dev
Continuing Education Centre (CEC) organised a seminar on 'Human resource development of SMEs in the area of accounting and financial management' in the city on Saturday, with Abdul-Muyeed Chowdhury, executive

'Form EC, CG on the basis of consensus'
Awami League presidium member Amir Hossain Amu on Saturday said both the Election Commission (EC) and the caretaker government should be constituted on the basis of consensus.

Election Olympiad starts in Rajshahi today
Election Olympiad, a countrywide knowledge-based competition for creating awareness about politics and elections, starts in Rajshahi today.

54th ACAD begins
The 54th Advanced Course on Administration and Development (ACAD) begins at Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre (BPATC) at Savar yesterday, says a press release.

6th bridge with Chinese aid under construction
China has assisted Bangladesh in building five friendship bridges in the country since 1980s and the sixth is now under construction by China Road and Bridge Company Limited.

Top criminal arrested at Fatikchhari
Omar Faruq alias Kala Faruq, a top-notch criminal of Fatikchhari upazila was arrested in the port city yesterday.

60 held on charge of snatching mobile sets
The Detective and Criminal Intelligence Branch arrested 60 suspected members of organised mobile set snatching gangs, raiding different parts of the city in the last two days.

BDR rescue five from traffickers
Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) members rescued five people including a child from traffickers at Mirganj border in Charghat, Rajshahi yesterday.