National tree plantation campaign to help boost green coverage: Shahab
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DHAKA, Feb 25, 2021 (BSS) – The National Tree Plantation Campaign and Tree Fair 2021 will be held this year aiming at encouraging people to plant trees and conserve forest to increase the country’s green coverage.
The theme of the campaign and fair is ‘Mujib Barshe Angikar Kori, Shonar Bangla Gare Tuli’, Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Md Shahab Uddin told a preparatory inter-ministerial meeting at the Secretariat here today.
The meeting was arranged ahead of the World Environment Day and Environment Fair 2021 and the National Tree Plantation Campaign and Tree Fair 2021, said a ministry press release.
Four held with narcotics
February 22, 2021
SARGODHA: Police on Sunday claimed to have arrested four drug peddlers and recovered narcotics from their possession. The teams of different police stations conducted raids within their jurisdiction and arrested 4 drug pushers and recovered 5.290kg hashish from them. The accused were identified as Ghulam Abbas, Taimoor, Rafique Ahmed and Muhammad Akram. Cases have been registered against the accused.
FC soldier sentenced to death over Baloch studentâs murder
Hayat Baloch was killed in Turbat in August 2020 SAMAA | Web desk - Posted: Jan 20, 2021 | Last Updated: 3 months ago SAMAA | Web desk Posted: Jan 20, 2021 | Last Updated: 3 months ago
Hayat Baloch. Photo: Twitter
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A Balochistan court sentenced on Wednesday a Frontier Corps soldier to death for murdering a Karachi University student Hayat Baloch in Turbat last year.
District and Sessions Court Judge Rafique Ahmed announced the verdict.
Hayat, a student of physiology at Karachi University, had been working on a farm with his father in Turbatâs Absar area, when FC personnel killed him on August 13, 2020, according to his father. Hayat had been visiting his hometown on vacations.