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Living with horror

Living with horror
When Sharmin Akter Juthi, a first-year student of Islamic Studies at the Eden College, got into a bus of Bihongo Paribahan on January 18, 2015, she did not anticipate that her life would change after just 30 minutes. She was in the bus with her newly-wed husband, Jahid Hasan Shuvo, and her fellow classmate and friend, Sathi Akter. When the bus reached the intersection of Dhanmondi-27 and Manik Mia Avenue, two persons on a bike threw a petrol bomb at the bus. “There was a thud and all of a sudden my legs and part of my knees were on fire. I stood still in trauma. There was smoke everywhere. People were trying to get out of the bus. After a while, my husband—who too was injured—lifted me and I fainted. When I regained consciousness,…

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AL to celebrate, BNP to mourn
AL to celebrate, BNP to mourn
Both the ruling Awami League (AL) and its rival Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) are ready to observe…

Anomalous weather, heat, delayed winter mark 2016

Anomalous weather, heat, delayed winter mark 2016

The year 2016 was marked by anomalies in weather patterns, with high heat and less-than-normal rains during the monsoon caused by a fewer number of depressions in the Bay of Bengal and also a full winter arriving later than scheduled as the year bid adieu. Meteorologists at the Bangladesh Meteorological…
Muradpur-Lalkhan Bazar 
flyover to be opened by Apr

Muradpur-Lalkhan Bazar flyover to be opened by Apr

CHITTAGONG: The 4th largest and much-awaited 5.2-kilometre Muradpur-Lalkhan Bazar flyover in the city built at a cost of Taka 697 crore is expected to be opened to traffic within March or April this year, reports BSS. Construction works of Muradpur-Lalkhan Bazar Flyover, as part of the massive development…
Gulshan fire

Gulshan fire

Two days have passed, but the reason behind the Tuesday’s fire in the capital’s DCC market at Gulshan is yet to be unearthed. It is still more unfortunate that firefighters took long 18 hours to bring the fire under control with their 23 fire units despite the fact the market was a two-storey…
Urban river management

Urban river management

A clean river has both the tangible and intangible values. The intangible value of aesthetic and scenic kind contributes to the scope and quality of the human development. Health experts state that a clean urban river with parkways can provide health benefits to the mechanized modern life where people…
Man held with drugs

Man held with drugs

JAMALPUR: Police arrested a drug peddler with fivegrams heroin in Chhonkanda area of the town yesterday morning, reports BSS. Being informed, a team of the district police conducted a raid in the area and arrested Rubel Miah, 25, with the contraband drugs. A case was filed with the Jamalpur Sadar Police…
    Apps for farmers launched  to boost output

    Apps for farmers launched to boost output

    The Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) launched three mobile apps-based services to help farmers solve various problems they face during crops production, reports UNB. Agricultural Minister Matia Chowdhury formally inaugurated the apps-based services at a function at AKM Gias Uddin Milky auditorium…
    New attack on US intelligence over Russia hacking: Trump

    New attack on US intelligence over Russia hacking: Trump

    US President-elect Donald Trump has made a fresh assault on America's intelligence community, reports BBC. He said on Twitter that an intelligence briefing he was due to receive on alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election - which is said to have benefited Mr Trump - had been delayed. "Perhaps…
    Shawkat Osman’s birth centenary celebration at Shilpakala

    Shawkat Osman’s birth centenary celebration at Shilpakala

    DL reporter To mark the birth centenary of late noted novelist and short story writer Shawkat Osman, Theatre and Film Department of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy has organised a programme today at 6pm at the National Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy in the capital’s Segun Bagicha.…
    Mahmud’s call to refrain from criticising coach

    Mahmud’s call to refrain from criticising coach

    After taking the charge of national cricket team as the head coach, Chandika Hathurusingha helped Bangladesh make a meteoric surge in the world cricket as the team seemed to have groomed well under his shrewd guidance. But the current state of the team left the coach in jeopardized condition with rumours…
    Migratory birds poaching with poison rampant

    Migratory birds poaching with poison rampant

    Hunting migratory birds using chemical poisons has become rampant across the coastal wetlands of the district in recent years, and the hunters do not have to bother much about selling those poisoned dead games in broad daylight, reports UNB. The Meghna estuary as well as more than 50 remote chars, including…
    6 teams to monitor admission process

    6 teams to monitor admission process

    Six monitoring teams of the education ministry would oversee the non-government educational institutions in the Dhaka Metropolitan area and check whether such schools are charging additional fees during the process of admissions and filling up of forms of the public examinations. The ministry asked…
    When America last had two presidents at one time

    When America last had two presidents at one time

    Over the holiday weekend, the Nixon biographer John Aloysius Farrell (who has sometimes written about the 37th president in this space) delivered what might be called a historical bombshell. Using notes from H.R. Haldeman, Nixon’s chief of staff, he reported that despite years of insistence it…
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