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Vol. 5 Num 391

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Star City

Hawkers bribe cops, student leaders to run business
Hawkers on the Indira Road beside Tejgaon College are running their business in the area bribing police and local student leaders.

Ineffective ban on 20-year-old buses
Despite the existing ban on the plying of buses that are at least 20 years old, most government offices and agencies use such date-expired vehicles to transport their officials and employees.

Birshrestha Motiur Rahman
Family wants the memorial to be outside cantonment
Construction work on the memorial of Birshrestha Motiur Rahman is likely to begin soon on the premises of BAF Shaheen School and College in Dhaka, though wife and family members of the Liberation Warhero

Unwanted Divider...

Mohammadpur residents face acute water crisis
Most households in Mohamm-adpur, an area with over 7 lakh residents, have been facing acute water crisis over the last one month.

The weird web of cables
The outlook of the aristocratic Gulshan area has changed with broadband internet, telephone, cable TV and the main electrical lines matted and tangled from one Dhaka Electricity Supply Authority (Desa)