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Believe it not, but this is a tale of pry education
Classes are merged in Nilphamari due to teacher crisis, unauthorised absence
Believe it or not, primary school students of two classes huddle in a room and a teacher takes classes.

Cry for power as 150 units closed in Haragachh
Thousands stage protest, lay siege to Dc’s office
Several thousand people, most of them bidi factory workers, from Haragachh municipality, brought out a procession in Rangpur town and laid a siege to the Deputy Commissioner's office for hours yesterday

Phensidyl factory at NGO office !
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members yesterday unearthed a phensidyl factory where the drug was being made under cover of an NGO office in Uzirpur upazila.

SSC examinee kills herself fearing bad result
Taslima Nasrin Lima, 16, committed suicide by hanging herself from a ceiling fan with a scarf Saturday night, thinking that she will fail in SSC examination because of bad performance in English subject.

Extortionists kill boy as father refuses to pay toll
A schoolboy was slaughtered on Saturday by extortionists at Berashula village in Sadar upazila, Jhenidah following his father's refusal to pay toll.

Khulna journalists protest NSI excess
Khulna divisional unit of Bangladesh Photojournalists' Association (BPJA) yesterday brought out a procession and held a rally here protesting attack on their colleagues in Dhaka by the National Security