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Supporters of a ward-level ruling party leader in Barishal on Wednesday night blocked a highway, shut down bus and launch services for over three hours.
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The Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation’s (BSCIC) industrial city in Barishal is yet to utilise its full potential due to a lack of infrastructural facilities.
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The death of 30-year-old apprentice lawyer Rejaul Karim Reja in custody on January 3, which sparked outrage in Barishal city, has led to an outpouring of accounts by locals of a sub-inspector’s many transgressions.
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Barishal division is on way to host a third economic zone in Hijla upazila, a remote area by the Meghna river some 60 kilometres south of Dhaka, giving local people and businesses hope at generating economic activities and employment opportunities.
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The family of the apprentice lawyer, who died in a prison cell of a hospital after alleged torture by members of Detective Branch of police, was able to file a murder case yesterday with a Barishal court that ordered the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) to probe the incident.
