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Data collection for updating voter list ends tomorrow

Data collection by visiting house-to-house for updating voter list-2025 with photos will be ended tomorrow (February 3).
“Those who born on January 1, 2008 or before could not fill up the form-2 for any reason would be able enrolling their names in the voter list by filling up the form with necessary documents, photos and giving fingerprints at the designated registration centers (photo center)”, according to an election commission official.
The EC official also said that eligible persons who missed to fill up form-2 can also become voters by online filling up the form-2.
The official website for the form-2 at www.nidw.gov.bd.

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Chiefs of reform commissions meet over publication of full reform reports

Chiefs of five reform commissions on Sunday sat in a meeting over the publication of their full reports submitted to the interim government.
The meeting reviewed the full reports and the progress of coordination among them, said a press release.
The meeting discussed over compilation of the commissions recommendations in order to place these before the government soon.

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10 convicts acquitted, 2 gets life in Faruk murder case

A Tangail court on Sunday acquitted ten people and sentenced two people to life imprisonment in a case filed for killing Awami League leader Faruk Ahmed in 2013.
Judge of the Tangail Additional District and Session Judge Md Mahmudul Hasan handed down the punishment.
The lifers are—Kabir Hossain Kabir, son of Mokhlesur Rahman and Mohamamd Ali, son of Ramjan of the district. Both of them were tried in absentia.
The court also fined them Tk 5 lakh each, in default, to suffer one year more in rigorous imprisonment.
Those who were acquitted are—former MP Amanur Rahman Khan Rana, former Tangail municipality mayor Shahidur Rahman Khan Mukti, Zahidur Rahman Khan Kakon, former vice president of central unit banned Chhatra League Saniat Khan, Bappa, Babu, Alamgir Hossain, Nasir Uddin Nuru, Masudur Rahman and Farid Ahmed.

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Fuel prices increased by Tk 1 per litre from Feb 1

The government has increased the prices of all four types of petroleum fuel by Tk 1 per litre, effective February 1, according to a gazette notification from the Energy and Mineral Resources Division.
Under the new pricing, diesel and kerosene will now cost Tk 105 per litre, up from Tk 104. The price of octane has been set at Tk 126 per litre, up from Tk 125, while petrol will now cost Tk 122 per litre, up from Tk 121.
The price adjustment was made under the automated pricing formula, aligning local fuel prices with global market trends to ensure an uninterrupted supply of petroleum products at an economically viable rate, the Energy and Mineral Resources Division stated.