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Dare not skip ‘guest room meeting’
A first-year mass communication student at Dhaka University was allegedly bullied and mentally tortured by a few seniors in the guest room of Bijoy Ekattor Hall on Wednesday night.
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Dhaka most polluted city in the world
Dhaka is the most polluted city in the world, and air pollution is the main cause for respiratory issues, said Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh yesterday.
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Torture, abuse, separation: Story of domesticating elephants
People of greater Sylhet and Chittagong Hill Tracts regions are familiar with domesticated elephants being used to pull trees down the hills, in circuses and at various social events.
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38 days of fresh air in 6 years
Residents of the capital have inhaled clean air for only 38 days in the last six years, found a study, highlighting the gravity of the air pollution that over two crore people of the city are exposed to every day.
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‘Stop plastic use, save Kuakata’
Demanding an end to the use of disposable plastics to protect the environment of Kuakata beach, a memorandum signed by 2,783 people was handed over to the Patuakhali deputy commissioner (DC) on Tuesday.
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‘Tis the season to eat molasses
It’s a relatively small window. For four months a year, from mid-November to March, farmers who sell molasses from date juice hit their peak.
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700 acres submerged
Once Nurul Haque used to cultivate different types of crops in his land all around the year.
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Building it right!
Bangladeshi architect Kashef Chowdhury, director of Bangladeshi architecture firm Urbana, has been announced the winner of the 2021 International Prize for the World’s Best New Building by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) for his Friendship Hospital project.
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67% of all deaths in Bangladesh due to non-communicable diseases
Non-communicable diseases (NCD) are a growing health risk and matter of concern for Bangladesh, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said yesterday.
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Mayor does a first-hand inspection
Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Md Atiqul Islam went inside some newly built drains yesterday to inspect the construction work.
