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Malnutrition rate high due to ignorance
Experts tell roundtable
Country's poverty has shrunken but malnutrition is ever present among the people of the country, even in high-income groups, due to lack of knowledge, experts at a roundtable said yesterday.
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Dialogue on Energy Policy
Publish white paper on corruption in power sector
Speakers urge govt
Speakers at a dialogue yesterday urged the government to publish a white paper on corruption in power sector and bring to book the politicians and bureaucrats who were involved in the shady deals sacrificing
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HSC Examinee Murder
4 muggers to die, 3 get 30 years' RI
A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced four muggers to death and three others to 30 years' rigorous imprisonment for killing Imtiaj Shafiq Sourav, a HSC examinee from Rajuk Model School on July 21 in 2005.
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CG revives CMC to tackle power crisis
The caretaker government yesterday decided to revive the Crisis Management Committee (CMC) formed last year to tackle the then power crisis across the country, as nagging outages seriously affected life
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Road accidents kill 5
At least five people, including two children, were killed in separate road accidents in Comilla, Lalmonirhat and Thakurgaon yesterday and on Saturday night.
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Create more jobs for persons with disabilities
Rokia tells workshop
Speakers at a workshop yesterday stressed the need for creating more employment opportunities for persons with disabilities in a bid to bringing them into the mainstream of the society.
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Judiciary was not neutral in the past
Says law adviser
Law and Information Adviser Barrister Mainul Hosein yesterday said countless terrorists and corrupt people went unpunished as country's judiciary was not neutral in the past.
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CU increases student fees
Chittagong University (CU) authorities increased student fees as well as the fees teachers, officials and employees had to pay to get different facilities from the university.
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Repression Against Women, Children
'269 incidents take place in May'
As many as 269 incidents of repression against women and children took place across the country in May, says a report of Bangladesh National Women Lawyers' Association (BNWLA) yesterday.
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Detainee dies in police custody
A detainee committed suicide in custody on the sixth day of his remand in Dakkhinkhan Police Station in the city yesterday evening, police claimed.
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Campaign to end water poverty today
The national launching meeting on "End water poverty: Sanitation and water for all" begins in the city today as part of the global campaign to resolve water and sanitation problem.
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