Indigenous people demand holidays on major social festivals

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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Worker dies after falling from under-construction metro rail station

Worker dies after falling from under-construction metro rail station in Kamalapur A worker named Md. Naeem Islam (20) died after slipping and falling while working at the under-construction metro rail station in Kamalapur, Dhaka, early Friday morning. Md. Naeem Islam lived in Kamalapur. His home is in Panial Pukur, Kishoreganj, Nilphamari district. Naeem’s colleague at Dhaka Medical College Hospital, Nazmul Islam, told Prothom Alo that Naeem slipped and fell from a height while measuring the beam of the under-construction metro rail station in Kamalapur at around 5 am. Later, Naeem was…

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