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Fake currency notes flooding Naogaon markets ahead of Eid

NAOGAON, Sept 16: At least a dozen of forger gangs are currently active across the Naogaon district to circulate fake notes in the market ahead of upcoming Eid-ul-Azha and Puja festivals, said detectives. A number of residents and money exchangers in the district have expressed their concerns about the rising...

Posts of 299 teachers in govt pry schools remain vacant in Rangpur district

RANGPUR, Sept 16: Posts of 299 teachers in government primary schools under Rangpur district have been lying vacant for long causing serious interruption in academic as well as administrative activities in the institutions. According to District Education Office sources there are 701 government primary schools having enrolment of a huge...

Adequate awareness, strict enforcement of TCA stressed

RANGPUR, Sept 16 (BSS): There is no alternative to creating adequate social awareness and strict enforcement of the amended Tobacco Control Act (TCA) to save thousands of nonsmokers from indirect smoking annually. As the anti-tobacco campaign is carried out at a massive scale, tobacco companies are changing strategies to hinder...

GIZ to implement project for displaced slum dwellers

RAJSHAHI, Sept 16: German Development Corporation (GIZ) has taken up a pilot project under Rajshahi City Corporation areas for development of soci-economic condition of the ultra poor and paupers who have been displaced from their homesteads and taken shelter at city streets and suburbs by the impact of climate change....

Office bldg of Ekti Bari, Ekti Khamar project opens in Gaibandha

GAIBANDHA, Sep 16: Sadar upazila office building of Ekti Bari, Ekti Khamar project and Palli Sanchoy Bank (PSB) was opened on the upazila campus of the town here on Wednesday amid much enthusiasm among the concerned people. Whip of the Bangladesh Parliament and local lawmaker Mahabub Ara Begum Gini formally...

Income-tax fairs begin in Bogra, Gopalganj

BOGRA Sep 16: A four-day long income tax fair began enthusiastically at upashahar area in Bogra region on Wednesday, presided over by Bogra regional income tax commissioner Md. Abdul Majid and convener of the fair was additional commissioner Khaled Sharif Arefin. At least 20 best income tax payers from Sirajgonj,...

RU to launch Chinese language course from October

RAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY, Sept 16: The Rajshahi University (RU) is going to launch a certificate course on Chinese language (6 months durable) under Language Department from October this year. Prof. Elias Hossain, administrator of RU Public Relations Office (PRO), signed a press release confirming this information. With a view to launching...

Hindu devotees perform Ganga Snan in Pabna

PABNA, Sep 16: The devotees observed traditional Ganga Snan on the occasion of birth anniversary of revered Hindu sage Thakur Anukul Chandra on Wednesday. Devotees from different parts of the country rushed to Shombolpur ghat in Hemayetpur of Pabna on Wednesday marking the 128th birth anniversary of the sage. "The...

News in Brief

Medicine sellers on strike in Thakurgaon Thakurgaon district unit of Bangladesh Chemists and Druggists Association (BCDA) went on a strike on Tuesday evening demanding release of the owner of a drugstore in the town. Sources said officials of Department of Narcotics Control on Wednesday morning arrested Tulen Chandra, owner of...