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Vol. 5 Num 1134

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Ensure balanced edn to bridge rural-urban gap
President Iajuddin Ahmed yesterday swiped at outworn education system that spawned coaching commerce and asked the authorities to undertake appropriate measures for imparting quality education to thestudents

'Help flood victims with relief’
Different socio-cultural organisations yesterday urged the government and all concerns to come forward to help the flood victims across the country with pure drinking water, relief materials and necessary

Set up N-power plants to meet electricity crisis
Speakers say at discussion
Participants at a discussion yesterday urged the caretaker government to establish nuclear power stations in order to ensure adequate power supply in the country.

Help flood-hit people
President urges countrymen
President Iajuddin Ahmed yesterday called upon the countrymen to extend their hands of help to the flood victims within their capacity to face the exigency unitedly, irrespective of party and opinion.

Body to probe Shibir attack on journos at RU
The provost of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Hall of Rajshahi University (RU) yesterday formed a five-member committee to investigate the Sunday's attacks on four journalists by Islamic Chhatra Shibir

Hasina yet to get permission to see ailing husband
The caretaker government is yet to allow detained Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina to see her ailing husband Dr M Wazed Miah who is undergoing treatment at a city hospital.

‘Create a child-friendly atmosphere’
Women and Children Affairs Adviser Geeteara Safiya Chowdhury yesterday called on the mass media to allocate free airtime and space to help establish child rights.

More support for flood victims
Different organisations and individuals donated money to the Chief Adviser’s Relief Fund at his office yesterday.

Advisers to monitor relief operation in flood-hit dists
The advisers of the caretaker government have been assigned to the current national priority task of monitoring relief and rehabilitation operation in different districts affected by the current floods.

‘Release Hasina’
Around 300 former leaders of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), student wing of Awami League (AL), yesterday demanded unconditional release of Awami League Sheikh Hasina before 15 August.

Ensure sustainable agriculture to reduce poverty
Speakers tell seminar
The government should ensure rural development through sustainable agriculture in the country to halve the level of poverty by 2015, speakers at a seminar said yesterday.

Protect rights of indigenous women
Speakers urge govt
The rights of indigenous people are being violated in various ways and the women are more vulnerable to exploitation as their right to security is also threatened, speakers at seminar said yesterday.

5 Ctg buildings fined
A mobile court in the port city yesterday fined five commercial buildings Tk 13.60 lakh for pilfering Wasa water.

12 fishermen missing in Bay as 2 trawlers capsize
Twelve fishermen went missing after two trawlers capsized in the Bay due to heavy current triggered by monsoon depression on Sunday night.

Biman flight stuck at Kuala Lumpur due to technical glitches
An airbus of Bangladesh Biman has remained stuck at Kuala Lumpur airport since Sunday night due to glitches in its engine.

24 youths held at ZIA
Immigration police arrested 24 youths at Zia International Airport (ZIA) yesterday when they were going to Iran via Delhi and Kabul on tourist visas.

Bodies of two missing boys recovered from Bay
Bodies of two schoolboys, among three who went missing on Sunday morning at Patenga sea beach, were recovered yesterday morning.

JMB member arrested
Members of the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-9) arrested a member of Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from Dhaka in the early hours of yesterday.

Lions Clubs Int'l Dist 315B1 executives
Mazibul Haque Chunnu, deputy director of BADC and Nishat Parveen Huq, Principal of Morning Glory at Savar Cantonment have been appointed district governor and vice district governor of Lions Clubs International

Minor earthquake jolts city
A minor earthquake, measuring 3.8 on the Richter scale, jolted the capital yesterday.

Orientation programme on birth registration
Nari Maitree, an NGO, organised an orientation programme on birth registration at Biam in the city yesterday for local organisations and schoolteachers in Ward Nos. 25, 27 and 28.

Obituary
Rita Ahmed, wife of Sehabuddin Ahmed Nafa, special correspondent of BSS, passed away due to cancer at a city hospital yesterday at the age of 52.