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News in Brief
Stalker gets six months'jail
Our Correspondent, Thakurgaon
A mobile court yesterday sentenced a man to six months' imprisonment for stalking a 14-year-old girl in Dastampur village under Pirganj upazila.
Executive Magistrate and Upazila Nirbahi Officer of Pirganj Abdur Rauf Mai idol handed down the sentence.
The convicted lynul Haque, 30, is the son of Mohammad Ali of the village.
Officer-in-Charge of Pirganj Police Station Mehedi Hasan told The Daily Star that lynul often teased the girl on her way to school.
On Thursday, lynul intercepted the girl and started harassing her in broad daylight. When the girl cried for help, locals caught the miscreant and
DU Prof sent on forced-leave
Staff Correspondent
A professor of Dhaka University has been sent on forced-leave for an indefinite period for his alleged involvement in sexual harassment of female students.
The syndicate took the decision against Dr Mahmud Hasan, a professor of fisheries department, at a meeting on Wednesday, chaired by Vice Chancellor Prof AAMS Arefin Siddique.
The action came after a section of students lodged a written complaint against the teacher.
A five-member body headed by Pro VC Prof Shahid was formed to investigate the allegation.
Quiz on Korea concludes
Staff Correspondent
A quiz competition called “Quiz on Korea” aiming to create knowledge about the country among young Bangladeshis, ended al the embassy of the Republic of Korea in the capital on Thursday.
Ambassador of the Republic of Korea Taiyoung Cho presented awards to the lop participants of the competition.
The winner of the quiz competition will be travelling to Korea representing Bangladesh, among participants from 23 other countries, in the grand finale of the competition.
The competition began with 150 candidates being selected through online registration. After a written exam, eight candidates qualified among them journalist Samia Shamim was chosen the winner of the
More trains in greater
Mymensingh demanded
Unb, Mymensingh
Green activists yesterday demanded more intercity trains on different routes of greater Mymensingh.
A large number of people from Mymensingh, Kishoreganj, Jamalpur and Netrakona who travel by trains every day, have to face lot of troubles due to insufficient trains on different routes, speakers said al a human chain.
Poribesh Bachao Andolan (Poba) and United Peace Foundation jointly organised the event at
3 journalist impersonators held
Staff Correspondent
Police detained three journalist impersonators at Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU) yesterday.
The detainees are Humayun Kabir, 60, Ramjan Ali, 36, and Sheikh Abdul Ahad, 45.
Esaraf Hossain Esa, general secretary ofCrime Reporters Association of Bangladesh (CRAB), said a group of people, introducing themselves as journalists, were trying to hold a roundtable at DRU yesterday under the banner of International Human Rights Crime Reporters Foundation.
When the attending journalists asked for their identity cards, they failed to produce them. Later the journalists handed them over to Shahbagh