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" It has created a bad impression of us to our family members. The test raises questions about our abilities."
A BANK OFFICIAL
about an evaluation test arranged by the IFIC bank where some 1,500 officials, below the rank of assistant vice-president, were asked to sit for the test.

"Sometimes, police cannot fill the form properly and that creates inconsistency in the information."
DR SHAMSUL HOQUE
ARI Director
at a training session on "Accident event recording and reporting" arranged by Accident Research Institute (ARI) of the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET).

"The rhino is well. Even the elephant seemed well in the morning. It died suddenly due to old age complications."
SHAHID ULLAH
deputy curator, Dhaka Mirpur Zoo
about the last surviving, rather weak and skinny-looking rhinoceros and the death of a century old female elephant.

" They killed and aided in the killing of 30 lakh people and tortured and humiliated two lakh women during the War of Liberation."
PROF MUNAZ AHMED
general secretary of Buet's teachers' association
about the role of Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir in the War of Liberation.

" The prime minister will certainly win the hearts of all Indians if he is prepared to discuss the display of the Koh-i-Noor in India itself, and possibly even its permanent return."
KEITH VAZ
British MP of Indian origin, about returning the Koh-i-noor diamond to India.

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