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The tremendous success achieved in sanitation coverage has improved all public health indexes in rural areas in the country in recent years, speakers at a post-rally discussion said on Sunday afternoon.

Speakers at a function here on Thursday said members of village defense party (VDP) are playing vital role in doing welfare for the people and maintaining law and order at grass root level to ensure peaceful society.

Speakers at an advocacy meeting have stressed for strengthening the local government institutions to give democracy an institutional shape ensuring accountability in the activities of the local government bodies at the grassroots.

Dhaka – Veteran journalist Gias Kamal Chowdhury died of old age complications at a city hospital early Saturday. He was 74.

Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard Monday during an overnight crackdown on hilsa netting flouting a ban seized 30 mother hilsa fishes and 60,000 metres of fine fishing nets from the Meghna River in Gazaria upazila.

Speakers at a function here on Thursday said members of village defense party (VDP) are playing vital role in doing welfare for the people and maintaining law and order at grass root level to ensure peaceful society.

State Minister for Social Welfare Promod Mankin today called for maintaining communal harmony to continue ongoing development process in the country.

Mayor of Rangpur City Corporation (RCC) Alhaj Sharfuddin Ahmed Jhantu has handed over a cheque for Taka 18-lakh to widow Madhuri Kawser, wife of late noted contractor and social worker Mir Mamunur Rashid Mamun.

Three people, including a child, sustained bullet injuries as activists of United People’s Democratic Front (UPDF) and Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samity (PCJSS) locked in a gun battle in Lakshmichhari upazila on Tuesday afternoon.

A man was killed and 20 others were injured in a clash between two groups of villagers in Singra upazila on Tuesday morning.

A minor boy drowned in the Fuljor River in Kamarkhand upazila on Sunday evening.

Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard Monday during an overnight crackdown on hilsa netting flouting a ban seized 30 mother hilsa fishes and 60,000 metres of fine fishing nets from the Meghna River in Gazaria upazila.

More than 30,000 women from slum and underprivileged areas across Rajshahi City have come together in an anti-poverty savings scheme to raise more than Taka nine crore.

The five-day colourful and joyous Durga Puja, the largest religious festival of the Hindu community,ended peacefully in the city and district as elsewhere in the country today through the immersion of the goddess Durga.

Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC), district administration and all others concerned have chalked out elaborate programmes to celebrate Eid-ul-Azha in the city with due fervor and enthusiasm.

RAJSHAHI, Oct 14, 2013 (BSS)-Aminul Islam Royal alias Makhon, 30, cousin of Abdul Wadud Dara, an MP of Bangladesh Awami League, was killed by miscreants at his resident at Biraldaha under Puthiya Upazila of the district in early hours today.

Foolproof security measures were taken in the city and its adjacent areas to avert any untoward incident during the two big religious festivals of Muslims and Hindu communities.

Substantial and sustainable strengthening of the local government institutions has become the precondition to cherished elevation of the people’s fate, discussants at a meeting said.

Acute crisis of pure blood keeps critical patients in the district’s hospitals in a complete quandary when its need arises.

Police rescued a schoolgirl from Shiromoni area in Khulna city on Sunday morning, 12 hours after her abduction from Barandi Mollapara area in Jessore town.

An eight-month old girl, who was abducted from Araihajar upazila of Narayanganj on Friday, was rescued from a village of Kochua upazila of Chandpur on Saturday.

English Action Fair 2o13 was held in Lalmohan High attached Primary School of Wednesday in Lalmohan upazila under the district of Bhola.

Supply of sacrificial animals has marked an all-time record in the northern districts now while the sale is yet to get momentum despite lower price with less than two weeks ahead of the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha.

An alleged robber was killed in a lynch-mob attack at Dalalpara in Sadar upazila early Saturday.

Speakers at a discussion here have stressed for ensuring rights of the children for their normal growth and quality education to make them knowledgeable and worthy citizens for the future nation.

Police arrested a man along with 100 pieces of Yaba tablet from the vegetable market  in Morelganj upazila headquarters on Wednesday night.

Unidentified miscreants hurled crude bombs at the house of a photojournalist of a local daily in the city’s Khalishpur area on Wednesday.

A court here on Wednesday sentenced a man to life term imprisonment for killing his mother-in-law in 2000.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in two separate drives seized different kinds of goods worth Tk63 lakh, smuggled from India, early Wednesday.

Rapid action battalion (RAB)- 5 arrested one arms trader and recovered arms and ammunitions at Kansat bazaar area of Shibganj upazila in Chapainawabganj on Wednesday.