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BSCIC industrial zone plagued by residential buildings

CUMILLA, Nov 21: Ashoktala industrial city of Cumilla, set up by the Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC), no longer looks like an industrial area. Rather, it is turning into a residential one with uncontrolled growth of buildings and flats. While visiting this area, supposed to house small and...

Myanmar Navy free 22 BD fishermen

COX'S BAZAR, Nov 21 (UNB): Myanmar Navy have released 22 Bangladeshi fishermen who were detained with four fishing trawlers when they were fishing near the St Martin's Island in the Bay of Bengal on Saturday.Saint Martin's Union Parishad Chairman Nur Ahmed said four fishing trawlers with 22 fishermen arrived at...

Thrust on inclusive efforts to identify obstetric fistula patients

RANGPUR, Nov 21 (BSS): Experts at a meeting stressed on Sunday inclusive efforts of the government and non- government organisations concerned in identifying obstetric fistula patients to bring them under cost-free treatment facilities. They opined this at the advocacy meeting on fistula patients identification organised by Divisional Director (Health) Office...

A fairytale of road repair work in Kushtia

KUSHTIA, Nov 21 (UNB): Though road-construction cost in Bangladesh is the highest in the world, durable roads are hardly constructed here. The Kushtia-Rajbari regional highway which turned unfit twice within eight months of renovation is not an exception.A portion of Kushtia-Rajbari regional highway, which was renovated barely eight months back...

SUST student stabbed by mugger in Sylhet

SYLHET, Nov 21 (UNB): A female student of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) was stabbed by a mugger in Surma residential area near BGB gate in Sylhet city early Sunday.The injured was identified as Saima Alam, a student of Civil and Environmental Engineering department of the university.Sources at...

Two crushed under train in Gazipur

GAZIPUR, Nov 21 (UNB): Two female garment workers were crushed under the wheels of a train on Tongi-Bhairab rail track at the outer signal of Arikhola Rail Station in Gazipur district on Sunday.The deceased were identified as Jesmin, 42, wife of Kabir and Shahinur, 25, wife of Quamrul of Kaliganj...

Chandpur road accident leaves two dead

CHANDPUR, Nov 21 (UNB): Two people were killed and another was injured when a truck rammed a CNG-run auto-rickshaw on Chandpur-Cumilla regional highway at Khazuria in Kachua upazila on Saturday night.The deceased were identified as auto-rickshaw driver Sohel Mia, 36, and Gokul Sarkar, 32, of Haziganj upazila.The truck hit the...

One gets death, three life term for murder in Narail

NARAIL, Nov 21 (UNB): A Narail court on Sunday sentenced a man to death and three others to life imprisonment for killing a man over land dispute in 2014.The condemned convict is Alamgir Bhuiyan, 50, while the lifers are- Alamgir's father Sayen Uddin Bhuiyan, his brothers Habibur Rahman Bhuiyan, 55,...