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Girls take part in taekwondo training at Raju Memorial Sculpture on the Dhaka University campus on Friday as part their efforts to attain self-defence ability. Pritilata Brigade organises the training. Photo: asif mahmud ove
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Girls take part in taekwondo training at Raju Memorial Sculpture on the Dhaka University campus on Friday as part their efforts to attain self-defence ability. Pritilata Brigade organises the training. Photo: asif mahmud ove
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The National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Ports demonstrates in front of the National Press Club on Fridayin protest against the deaths in Banshkhali clashes.
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Members of late journalist Azizul Haque’s family receive help in cheque from Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu at Dhaka Reporters Unity on Friday.
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A group recites poet Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah’s work at ‘Rudra Mela’, a gathering in remembrance of the late poet at Bakultala of the Dhaka University’s Faculty of Fine Arts on Friday.
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Ganajagaran Mancha organises a rally at Shahbagh on Friday in protest against the alleged attempt to cover up the recent killings, rapes, loots, including ‘rape’ and murder of Comilla college student Sohagi Jahan Tonu.
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Inspector General of Prisons Brig Gen Syed Iftekhar Uddin speaks at a press conference in the capital on Friday to disclose the plan to shift the Dhaka Central Jail to new premises at Keraniganj. Photo: asif mahmud ove
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Inspector General of Prisons Brig Gen Syed Iftekhar Uddin speaks at a press conference in the capital on Friday to disclose the plan to shift the Dhaka Central Jail to new premises at Keraniganj. Photo: asif mahmud ove
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The new Dhaka Central Jail, eight kilometres off the Dhaka-Mawa Highway, at Keraniganj can accommodate over 4,500 inmates.
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An aerial view of the new Dhaka Central Jail built on 31 acres of land at Dhaka’s Keraniganj.
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The main entrance of the new jail.
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The gallows at the jail.
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The new jail’s Monihar building which will accommodate detainees.
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CC cameras installed inside the jail.
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Surma building will accommodate juvenile detainees.
- Assailants hacked, put a bullet into online activist Nazim’s head and walked away on busy street
- Inside new Dhaka Central Jail
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- CID questions 5 including military police over Tonu’s murder
- Bangladesh to deactivate foreigners’ mobile SIM cards when their visa expires
- Mustafizur will adapt quickly to IPL, says Sunrisers Hyderabad coach Moody
- Magistrate ‘loots’ 200 Hilsa fishes from cold storage
- Bangladesh launches search for its citizens in ‘Panama Papers’ list
- All prisoners of Dhaka Central Jail to be moved in one day, says IG Prisons
- Slain activist Nazimuddin Samad buried in Sylhet
- Sunrisers Hyderabad recruit Mustafizur Rahman in IPL draft
- New York Fed is in ‘cyber arms race’, its President Dudley says in wake of Bangladesh heist
- Mild heat wave sweeping over parts of Bangladesh to continue for three more days
- Tension roils in Banshkhali as rivals in power plant dispute call programmes on Sunday
- Slain online activist Nazim ‘went into hiding following death threats’, friends say
- Belgium arrests Brussels, Paris attacks suspect Mohamed Abrini
- Military dictators rehabilitated Bangabandhu’s killers: Ambassador Ziauddin tells Woodrow Wilson Center
- Economist Binayak Sen pitches for organised labour movement to benefit society
- Ganajagaran Mancha announces road march to Parliament to protest Tonu murder
- Bangladesh to remain reliable partner of UN in fighting terrorism, violent extremism
- Burial shroud procession, siege Sunday if Banskhali power plant plan not dropped
- New York Fed is in ‘cyber arms race’, its President Dudley says in wake of Bangladesh heist
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- Manager of private bank missing, family says he is abducted
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