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PUST dept chair ‘assaulted’, barred from hiring board
A department chairman of Pabna University of Science and Technology (PUST) was allegedly assaulted, as he was trying to enter a teacher recruitment board of his own department yesterday morning.
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Dare not skip ‘guest room meeting’
A first-year mass communication student at Dhaka University was allegedly bullied and mentally tortured by a few seniors in the guest room of Bijoy Ekattor Hall on Wednesday night.
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Dhaka most polluted city in the world
Dhaka is the most polluted city in the world, and air pollution is the main cause for respiratory issues, said Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh yesterday.
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Torture, abuse, separation: Story of domesticating elephants
People of greater Sylhet and Chittagong Hill Tracts regions are familiar with domesticated elephants being used to pull trees down the hills, in circuses and at various social events.
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Abrar Murder Case: HC accepts 17 jail appeals for hearing
The High Court yesterday accepted the jail appeals of 17 death-row convicts in Buet student Abrar Fahad murder case for hearing.
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‘One has no licence, another on drugs’
One of the two buses, which crushed a teenage boy in Dhaka’s Moghbazar area on January 20, was being driven by a helper who has no driving licence.
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Country marching towards progress
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday told parliament that Bangladesh is marching towards progress at an overwhelming pace, dispelling pessimists’ takes on the country’s future.
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‘Stop plastic use, save Kuakata’
Demanding an end to the use of disposable plastics to protect the environment of Kuakata beach, a memorandum signed by 2,783 people was handed over to the Patuakhali deputy commissioner (DC) on Tuesday.
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‘Tis the season to eat molasses
It’s a relatively small window. For four months a year, from mid-November to March, farmers who sell molasses from date juice hit their peak.
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700 acres submerged
Once Nurul Haque used to cultivate different types of crops in his land all around the year.
