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     Dengue
    panic grips town 
          August
          11, 2000
           
          
           
            
          
          
           
    Patuakhali,
    Aug 10 (UNB) – A youth, feared to have been inflicted with Dengue fever,
    was admitted to General Hospital here Tuesday. 
          
          
           
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     2
    criminal courts opened 
          August
          3, 2000
           
          
           
           
          
            
           
          
           
    Patuakhali,
    Aug 2 (UNB)- Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Abdul Matin
    Khasru will formally open two upazila criminal courts here Friday, official
    sources said. 
          
          
           
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     Construction
    of embankment 
          July
          24, 2000
           
          
           
           
            
          
           
    Patuakhali,
    July 23 (UNB) – Construction work on the Patuakhali town protection
    embankment is yet to start causing untold sufferings to the dwellers. 
          
          
           
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     Arrested
    for forging magistrate’s sign
           June
          25, 2000
           
          
           
           
           
          
           
          Patuakhali,
          June 24 (UNB) – A clerk of an advocate was arrested from DC Court
          building for giving false affidavit to two sex workers by forging
          signature and seal of a first class magistrate. 
            
          
           
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     Uncertainty
    in enrolment in voter list
           May
          25, 2000
           
          
           
           
          
           
          Patuakhali,
          May 24 (UNB)- Enrolment of some 25,000 people of char areas of
          Golachipa upazila in the voter list has become uncertain in the face
          of resistance by some influential ‘Jotedars’ (big landholders).
          
           
           
          
           
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           Government
          allowance for widows 
          May
          20, 2000
            
          
           
           
          
          
           
          Patuakhali,
          May 19 (UNB) - Some 270 distressed women of six unions in Mirzaganj
          Upazila have received government allowance totaling Tk 1.08 lakh for
          four months. 
            
          
           
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           Total
          literacy movement begins   
          May
          12, 2000
            
           
          
           
          Patuakhali,
          May 11 (UNB) – A mass awareness programme for the total literacy
          movement begins in the district tomorrow (Thursday) to make the people
          aware of the importance and need of education of their children. 
           
          
           
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           Husband frustrated with conjugal
          life threw acid on wife
           April
          24, 2000  
             
          
          
           
          Patuakhali,
          Apr 23 (UNB) – A young husband frustrated with conjugal life threw
          acid on wife injuring her and her grandmother at Polytechnic Staff
          Quarter in the town on Saturday night. 
           
          
           
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