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Mon. July 23, 2007


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Star City

Rain brings downpour of suffering on commuters
Heavy downpour on the first workday of the week yesterday brought untold distress to the general city commuters, but an occasion of windfall for public transporters.

Urban poverty robs Sumon of his childhood
Trading the classroom and playground for the grim interior of a metal scrap shop, ten-year old Sumon now toils from dawn to dusk to bear family burdens.

Planned Wholesale Market In Jatrabari
DCC move threatens thousands with livelihoods
The government has decided to build a mega wholesale kitchen market on a five-acre plot near Jatrabari intersection demolishing an existing market where thousands of traders have been running their business

Rupnagar Housing
Land dispute between two ministries brings bane to plot allottees
Hundreds of plot allottees at Rupnagar housing project at Pallabi are caught in the middle of a decade-old land dispute between two ministries.

An open manhole...

"city express"
The latest crop of quotes from the city's press -- words worth repeating, we feel, for their humour, insight or sheer outrageousness.