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                     The government is preparing a roadmap to boost rice production within two years to meet the increasing demand, said Agriculture Minister Muhammad Abdur Razzaque on Thursday.   
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                     Justice FRM Nazmul Ahasan, who was recently elevated to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, died of Covid-19 yesterday.   
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                     UK High Commissioner Robert Chatterton Dickson said Bangladesh has become a role model of positive transformation, while continuing to tackle political and governance challenges as a vibrant, independent nation.   
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          Birders may go through many phases in their birding life.   
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          Those who are regular listeners of contemporary Bangla music are familiar with a song that talks about roaming around the streets of the city in search of a cup of tea that comes in cheap.   
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                     A worker died from electrocution while working in a building in the city’s Azimpur area yesterday.   
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                     A seven-year-old child has been fighting for his life at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) for the last three days. His parents and relatives said this is a result of “wrong treatment” at a private hospital.   
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          Students of fine arts at Rajshahi University (RU) have started a three-day-long protest, showcasing their artworks yesterday near the accident spot where Mahmud Habib Himel, a student of the same faculty, was crushed to death.   
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          Police will soon be recruiting 4,000 constables through the overhauled recruitment procedure.   
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          This was supposed to be their time of the year. There’s Pahela Falgun, then there’s Valentine’s Day, both occasions where people buy flowers to give to their loved ones.   
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          By this year, they would’ve been done with their SSC exams and become proud college students. To celebrate their last few days at school, they went to a picnic with their fellows, promising their parents to return home quickly.   
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          Even though everything came to a halt during the pandemic, hill cutting didn’t.   
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                     After a gap of over five years, Chhatra League (BCL) yesterday announced the list of its presidents and secretaries for the 18 Dhaka University (DU) halls.   
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                     A Dhaka court yesterday again asked PBI to submit -- by February 22 -- the probe report in a case filed against Bashundhara Group Managing Director Sayem Sobhan Anvir and seven others over the rape and murder of a college student in Dhaka’s Gulshan.   
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                     Three members of Chhatra League’s Bijoy Ekattor hall unit of Dhaka University (DU) were suspended from the hall for six months over torturing and bullying a student at the hall seven days ago.   
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          General Secretary of Awami League Obaidul Quader yesterday said BNP as a political party is fragile and dependent on others.   
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          Believe it or not, if someone wants to lease a grave -- even if it’s just around 28 square feet of land -- for 25 years in an area of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC), they’ll have to pay a hefty Tk 20 lakh!   
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          At Jahangirnagar University (JU), there’s no books available in braille, neither is are there reserved seats in the dorms for students with disabilities.   
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          The government has requested the Election Commission to probe whether BNP had shown the expenditure of appointing lobbyist firms abroad in their annual financial report.   
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          The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday scrapped a High Court verdict which in 2003 ruled that carrying and possessing Phensidyl is not a punishable offence.   
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          Rajshahi Water Supply and Sewerage Authority has tripled water tariff from yesterday. Rajshahi Wasa announced it through notices on its website and newspapers last month.   
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          Thirty-seven eminent personalities yesterday called upon CEC KM Nurul Huda to make a public apology if he fails to prove allegation of irregularities against Shujan Secretary Badiul Alam Majumdar within a week.   
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          A total of 272 women and girls faced violence in the first month of this year, said a report prepared by Bangladesh Mahila Parishad.   
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          Occupied footpaths have been a longstanding problem for commuters and pedestrians of Savar Bazar Bus Stand area.   
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          Landing aircrafts at Barishal Airport has become a risky endeavour. This is due to the dilapidated condition of its runway as well as other structures, a high-level investigation team of the civil aviation ministry found.   
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          The proposal to appoint psychologists for deradicalisation programme remains stuck in a bureaucratic tangle.   
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          BNP yesterday raised questions about the government allegedly spending public money to lift US-imposed sanctions.   
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                     Rab on Wednesday detained the driver of a truck  from Chandgaon area of port city, after a van-puller was killed by his truck in the capital’s Bailey Road area on January 24.   
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          Registration of 228 NGOs has been scrapped between 2017 and 2021 due to various reasons, including violation of conditions, Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque informed parliament yesterday.   
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          A department chairman of Pabna University of Science and Technology (PUST) was allegedly assaulted, as he was trying to enter a teacher recruitment board of his own department yesterday morning.