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Cashing in on patients' plight
Magura diagnostic centres charge 10 to 20 times the cost of tests
Diagnostic centres in Magura are doing brisk business in collusion with a section of government doctors who allegedly get benefit from them.

Eye hospital to be built in Sonaimuri
An initiative by local Andha Kalyan Samity
Sonaimuri Andha Kalyan Samity (SAKS), an association for welfare of the blind, has taken up a noble initiative to construct a full-fledged eye hospital in Sonaimuri Pourasabha.

RDRS resents govt's refusal to approve proposed university
Leaders of RDRS, a leading national NGO, have expressed resentment at the government's denial of permission to set up a private university in northern districts.

Stolen cement blocks recovered from BNP leader's 'resort'
Joint forces recovered a large number of cement blocks and current nets from a 'resort' of BNP leader and ward commissioner K M Shahidullah alias Haji Shahid in Bandh Road area near the bank of Kirtonkhola

Lottery for four fertiliser sacks
Four sacks of urea fertiliser were sold though lottery at Derai Bazaar at Derai upazila headquarters in Sunamganj district as there were many farmers demanding those.

3 of a family electrocuted
Three members of a family were electrocuted at Barera village in Sadar upazila yesterday afternoon.

Mizan Chowdhury's death anniversary observed
The first death anniversary of former prime minister Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury was observed here yesterday with due honour and solemnity.