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NEWS in brief
Hasina to meet grassroots leaders to pick candidates for next polls
Staff Correspondent
Awami League President Sheikh Hasina will start meetings with the party leaders from the grassroots-level from tomorrow to seek their opinions on party’s possible candidates for the upcoming parliamentary elections.
As part of the programme, Hasina, also the prime minister, will meet the leaders of Dinajpur, Jamalpur, Rajbari, Manikganj, Lalmonirhat, Gazipur, and Bhola districts, and thanas, upazilas and municipalities under the districts at Gono Bhaban at 3:00pm tomorrow.
RU admission test begins on Nov 10
RU Correspondent
The admission test of honours programme of Rajshahi University (RU) for the 2013-2014 session will begin on November 10.
The exam will be held under eight faculties until November 14.
No change has been made regarding the terms and conditions for applying, said the RU vice-chancellor.
The schedule of the test will be informed after September 8, said RU officials.
DoE fines RMG factory for pollution
Our Correspondent, Gazipur:
The Department of Environment (DoE) fined a garment factory of Gazipur's Sreepur area Tk 2 lakh for polluting theTurag river yesterday.
M Alamgir, DoE director (monitoring and enforcement), fined Crystal Industries Ltd for discharging its untreated waste materials into the Turag river and ordered the factory authorities to stop the discharge until they install effluent treatment plants.
Free medical services given
to poor in capital
Staff Correspondent
Nalta Shareef Central Ahsania Mission Orphanage provided free medical services to around 100 poor people at the capital's Chalabon in Dakkhinkhan Saturday.
Starting from morning, three physicians gave treatment while the orphanage authorities distributed medicines among them, says a press release.
The mission said from now on they would continue the service in the area on the last Saturday of each month, the release adds.
22 touts jailed in capital
Staff Correspondent
Twenty two touts, who illegally charge people for processing driving licenses, were given different jail terms yesterday.
Executive Magistrate Nazrul Islam sentenced 20 of them to three-month imprisonment while the remaining two to 15-day.
They used to harass people at the office of Bangladesh Road Transport Authority in Keraniganj who came to apply for driving licenses or change the ownership of their vehicle, said Rab officials. Rab arrested them from the office area in the afternoon.