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Volume 5 Number 36

Thu. July 01, 2004

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Metropolitan

Rotary centennial year celebrations begin today
The Rotary International begins its 100th anniversary celebrations in the city today with a colourful procession.

The procession will start from the Lalbagh fort at 7.00am.

Arsenic Mitigation
Increased coordination among govt, NGOs suggested
Speakers at a discussion called for increased coordination among the government, NGOs and development partners in mitigating the groundwater arsenic problem in Bangladesh.

Transport leader's 'killer' lynched
Another accomplice injured
A mob yesterday lynched an alleged criminal and injured another after their gang gunned down a transport union leader at Sarulia in Demra.

Tk175 cr SIDA grant for pry edn
Bangladesh will receive 250 million Swedish kroner, equivalent to Tk 175 crore, as grant from Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) for Second Primary Education Development Programme

9-day Int'l Film Festival begins in city Dec 2
A nine-day International Film Festival, Bangladesh-2004 will begin on December 2 in the city.

Pro-AL panel sweeps CU syndicate polls
Pro-Awami League and left leaning backed "yellow panel" swept the Chittagong University syndicate election here yesterday.

The syndicate is the highest decision making body of the university.

BIT refutes allegations
Bangladesh International Tutorial (BIT) authorities have refuted the allegations made by the BIT Students' Guardians' Forum that the school has hiked tuition and other fees unreasonably.

1967 more held
Police arrested 1,967 people, including one identifiedcriminal, on various charges during their countrywide drive in last 24 hours till 6.00am yesterday.