Category: Rangpur

Indigenous people demand holidays on major social festivals

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The indigenous communities of the Chittagong Hill Tracts and plains have made four demands, including keeping government holidays in all educational institutions during their main social festivals, focusing on welcoming the New Year. These demands were made at a press conference organized by 12 indigenous student organizations at the Madhur Canteen of Dhaka University on Monday. The president of Bangladesh Indigenous Students’ Struggle Parishad, Numong Pru Marma of BMSC Dhaka Metropolitan, read out a written statement at the press conference. In his written statement, Ananta Tanchangya said that for the…

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“God has placed the burden of my child’s body on my shoulders!”

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“God has placed the burden of my child’s body on my shoulders!” ‘Dad, are you breaking your fast?’ The son said, ‘I am breaking my fast, father.’ This was the last thing police constable Abdul Motaleb said to his son on the phone after breaking his fast on Monday. Then, at around 8 am on Tuesday, while he was sleeping, the phone rang. An unknown person on his son’s phone said, ‘This boy with the mobile phone had an accident on the road, his condition is bad. What happened to…

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