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Bangladesh News
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The Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority is going to launch a Tk 6.6 crore project to dredge parts of the Buriganga river although some traders are offering to do it free of cost and would rather pay for the extracted sand. The BIWTA officials have completely ignored the sand traders’ offer, selected a private contractor for [...] 
The Biman board of directors yesterday finally conceded to its employees’ demand for revising a new pay scale, reinstating their pension scheme and giving pay raises in line with the government salary structure. “Everything has been resolved. The board has approved all demands,” said Biman Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer Muhammad Zakiul Islam, after more [...] 
Kamal Hossain Kala, driver of Awami League lawmaker Nurunnabi Chowdhury Shaon, yesterday confessed to shooting AL activist Ibrahim Ahmed during a tussle. Ibrahim’s wife Rina Islam alleged that the investigators forced Kala to confess to killing his husband to let Shaon off the hook. She said the investigators echoed Shaon, who on Wednesday claimed that Ibrahim was [...] 
Agitating dairy cooperatives yesterday resumed supply of milk to Baghabari unit of Milk Vita after getting assurance from the government authorities on meeting their demands in phases. General Manager of Milk Vita Nasim Ahmed confirmed that the company collected milk from the cooperatives on Thursday afternoon. The dairy cooperatives of Shahjadpur upazila in Sirajganj district started their [...] 
The local government bodies in cooperation with non-government organisations should deal with illiteracy while the government leads as the planning and executive authority, said speakers at a roundtable yesterday. They said more than half the country’s population between 11 and 45 years are illiterate, the problem the government should try to remove with practical and achievable [...] 
A six-point recommendation had been put forward from yesterday’s meeting of the National Population Council to keep the country’s population growth rate at a balanced level. The Population Council, which held its first meeting in the last 14 years yesterday at the PM’s Office, also reorganised its committee consisting of 60 members with Prime Minister Sheikh [...] 
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