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Bangladesh wins Cirdap Award
Staff Correspondent
Bangladesh has won Cirdap Award this year as a recognition for poverty reduction and rural development.
State Minister for Local Government and Rural Development and Cooperatives Jahangir Kabir Nanok received the award from Indian President Pranab Mukherjee at the 19 th meeting of the governing council of Cirdap in New Delhi on Monday, says a press release.
The ministers for rural development of Cirdap's 15 member states were present at the meeting.
Woman dies falling from third floor of court building
Staff Correspondent
A woman died after falling from the third floor of a five-storey building of the capital's Judges' Court yesterday.
Rabeya Akter Lucky, 22, a student of Abujor Gifari University College, resided in Khilgaon.
Kotowali police could not ascertain whether Rabeya was pushed from there or she committed suicide.
She was rushed to National Medical College Hospital and then to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where doctors declared her dead.
'Mugger1 beaten to death in capital
Staff Correspondent
An alleged mugger was beaten to death by a mob in the capital's Pallabi Monday night.
Sabuj alias Pagla Sabuj, 33, used to live in Balur Math slum.
Ajijul, another slum-dweller, said Sabuj mugged Tk 12,000 from him on Monday afternoon.
The slum-dwellers caught him when he was preparing to mug someone again, said police.
On information, police rushed to the spot and sent the body to Dhaka Medical College morgue for an autopsy.
Victim's wife filed a murder case.
Seminar on social media held at IUB
City Desk
The Centre for Social Science Research (CSSR) of Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) organised a seminar titled “Changing Role of Social Media in Muslim Countries" on the campus at Bashundhara in the capital yesterday.
Prof Jamal Malik, chair of Religious Studies, University of Erfurt, Germany, delivered the keynote speech, said a press release.
Prof M Omar Rahman, IUB vice-chancellor; Dr Zakir Hossain Raju, director of CSSR and dean of School of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences; and Judith Mirschberger, director of Goethe-Institut, Dhaka, was present among others.
Man dies in Gazipur fire
Our Correspondent, Gazipur
A man was burnt to death while four other members of his family were severely injured in a fire in his house in Kaliakoir upazila of Gazipur early yesterday.
The deceased, Subhash Saha, 60, of Pubail in Gazipur Sadar upazila, used to run a betel leaf shop at Shafipur Bazar in Kaliakoir.
Syed Azharul Islam, sub-inspector of Mouchak Highway Police Outpost, said the fire broke out when Subhash tried to light a cigarette.
The injured were taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
Govt primary school teachers fast for headmasters' status upgrade Staff Correspondent
Several hundreds of Government Primary School teachers yesterday went on a hunger strike on the capital's Central Shaheed Minar premises demanding upgrading of the status of government primary school headmasters to grade-II.
They sought prime minister's intervention to fulfil their demands including upgrading the current pay scale for assistant primary school teachers and ensuring their promotions.
They will stay on the premises until the government fulfils their demands, said a press release.