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Non-govt school, college teachers get 6-month maternity leave
Staff Correspondent
The education ministry yesterday issued a circular granting six-month maternity leave for teachers and employees of non-government secondary and higher secondary level educational institutions.
A teacher or an employee will get the maternity leave twice in her professional life while full salary and allowances before going on leave, its said.
The leave can be granted on any date the teacher or employee applies for but it has to start before she gives birth.
Managing committees or governing bodies will have no authority to reject the leave application or
Muggers shoot dead man
Staff Correspondent
A man was shot dead by muggers in the capital's Shyampur area yesterday.
The deceased was Habibur Rahman, 55, an employee of Madina Group.
Habibur's colleague Nasiruddin said three muggers riding on a motorcycle shot Habibur and took away some amount of money while returning to his workplace at Pagla in Narayanganj after collecting the money from the company's clients. Locals caught one mugger while two others fled the scene with the money, opening fire on the chasing people that left Mahbubur Rahman Lipu, 40, wounded.
Habibur and Lipu were rushed to Dhaka Medical
23 tonnes hilsha, 30 lakh metre nets seized countrywide
Staff Correspondent
The Department of Fisheries (DoF) seized around 23 tonnes hilsha fish and 30 lakh metres of fishing nets from different parts of the country in the last five days.
The DoF conducted around 495 mobile courts and 2,045 drives in coastal rivers and fish markets from September 25, said a press release.
The courts also jailed 247 people in different terms, fined Tk 6 lakh and filed 240 cases for catch-
Mozena praises Bangladeshi youths
Staff Correspondent
United States Ambassador to Bangladesh DanW Mozena yesterday praised Bangladeshi young people for their growing participation in entrepreneurship and humanitarian activities.
He was addressing the grand opening of the Edward M Kennedy Centre for Public Service and the Arts (EMK Centre) in the capital's Dhanmondi area.
In partnership with the Liberation War Museum, the American Center of US Embassy in Dhaka announced the official opening of the EMK centre.
“I am so proud that we have partnered with the Liberation War Museum to create this glorious space in Senator Kennedy's memory to provide a base, a foundation, a home for Bangladesh's next genera-